• #
individu I
P ople",'
." ould priority b pi ced on
.. of drugs, homelessness
-Iunctional schools in the
U.s., or OD upperting the construe-
01 wells, healthclinics and roads
Africa?" Can we ddress both
lIB_as' . . ,.J •
represented at the meet
uded: Alph Kappa Alpha
Gamma Rho sororities,
esearch and Educ tion
FoI_Ili'ioln, the National Alliance of
Federal Employ�, Jack
Jill of America, the African
lMetllibdi·. £p' co Chure:, the
__ .ACiarlifHilt"Ci:funciJ of egro
A.!iftallll De ment
P P OVlDl G the
African-American rspective were
Dr. amuel Myers of the Nation I
Alii nee for Educ ion 1 Oppor
tunitie ( AFEO), Luci Thoma
repre entin the National Council of
Negro Women, Rev. Jon than
eaver, the Executive Director for
the Service and Development Agen
cy of the African Methodist Epi -
'cop Church, and Melvin Foote, the
Director for 'Constituency Develop-
ment for Africare. ,
Whil clearly the conference
raised many more questions than it
did answers, nevertheless, the 0
whelming consensus VI that this
was a very important benchmark in
the effort to build a U.S. constituen-
cy for Africa.' •
The fact that .. African American
representatives from so many dif
ferent organizations came together
to talk about Africa, w in itsel( a'
e:riti Uy important fir p,' d •
Foote. A follow-up meeting is ne
being pi n� . -tOt! -Felir i. rn
12J !JQ? IllD 0(1 I !
& •• �_� I 0 doubt eed i
the oviet Union, but have not
found any tr ce of famine in the
Sovie Union," id Stea 0
is ecretary general of the Red
Cr e.
Since e alleged fall of com-
unism, . d increasingly been
<Ii 0 Eastern Europe and'the
Sovie .
"Africa h
priority list, useit' a creepins
and continuing crisis with no easy
elutions," said Brian eldncr of
the Lutheran World Service.
The officials noted that . ee th
famine of 1984-85 which claimed
over: a million per ODS in Ethiopia
alone, e number of conflicP on
the continent has increased. These
conflicts are often more intCDIC,
"also, the disaster agency officiala
said. I 2aI
1
- - ETHIOPIA, WIlE 2.S mi1-
lion are at increasing risk of starv
ing or dying of thirst. Civil War
severly hampers aid deliveries and -
. crop plantings. ,
- Sudan, where several million
will face hunger in. the next year be
cause of drought. Tho harvest has
failed for two years nJDning Civil
war has disrupted planting and dis-
tribution. .
- Liberia, where civil war sent
700,000 outside the. country and
displaced up to one million 1Q0re
within. The capital, Monrovia,
faces sever ort of food aDd
water.
- Angola, where an estimated
1.9 million face starvation because
of civil ,war and drought. The
central and southern provinces
haVe had four years of erratic rain
fall,
- Mozambique, where civil war
has displaced two million of the 15
million pe�l?I� within the country
and ,one million have Oed to neigh
boring countries. 'This winter they
face drought and the failure of the
harvest.
"This time, aid not come
. too late. The world community
must not fail to meet this crisis in
Afria," the groups said,..
eme: OneYeer At erthe.U.
'Invasion
Camp. Located in a cold,
steel hanger at the Albrook
afrport, families as .large as
ten ate living in units that
measure roughly 10 ft. by 10
ft.
Residents are given one
full meal late in the day and
brealfast consists. of only a
biscuit and coffee even for
the 'children, As hto n
Bancroft, 50, General Coor-
dina tor of e Camp, says'
with tears in hrs eyes, '
· Where is. the democracy?"
kept. It is stili unknow� ex- publ ic workers par; . ning of justice for all of. us."
actly how many died during ticipating in demonstrations; A . rousing march
the invasion though most On the heels of that law, a throughout the. cij y on
hurna ..... rights gro� new bill - Law 56 - hasbeen December 20th grew from a
timated at least'2,000. proposed that would effec- few hundred to' many
IQ the city of Colon, which lively outlaw demonstrations' thousands by time it reached
is 80 percent Black, un- by designating them as the rally site at EI Ch�rrillo.·
employment has grown from threats to national security. Many tens of thousaads
a shameful preinvasion 25 cheered the march as it
'percent to currently about 60 .IN THE WEEK leading passed through. the crowded
percent. Lo c a te d west of upto the anniversary, rallies,' city streets: .
Panama City, about one-third . vigils, memorials and mar- 1991 will be a pivotal year
of the residents live in con- ches mushroomed' across for Panama. Human rights
denmed housing and drugs Panama City. The burning of . activists •. say they are deter
and prostitution run rampant. U.S. 'flags street batt s with . mined not to allow Endara to
. Bishop Carlos Ma.ria Aria, . ci ty -pol ice , and daiJy consolidate power or .to
who has been active in the graveside -speeches all sig- peacefully tolerate U.S.
city for any l)'e�rs. says, naled a release from the troops on their soil. Yet, the
"Colon is·lik a broken tooth, trauma of the invasion that impact of the invasion is still
hurting and d caying." 'many say had frozen ac- felt. As -Myrna Anaya,
The Endara government, tivism. General Coordinator of the
.backed by the United States, Speakin$ at the cementary Commission for the Defence
is moving rapidly to blunt the where many of those killed of Human Rights in Central
growing resistance move- .. during the invasion are, America (CODEHUCA)
ment. On Friday December buried, human rights activist said, "Dec mber 20 has made
13. the Endara-dominated Isabel Corro said, "We will . a deep injury against
National Assembly voted 51 'continue the struggle: Today humanity, an injury that'
to 7 to p ss Law 25 that ban� is not fhe end, but the begin- still bleeding."
By Clar
NNPA News Service
PANAMA CITY - One year
after the U.S. invasion �f the
small, mostly Black Central
American nation f Panama.
promises of democracy and
dollars remain . unfulfilled.
A� a result, "whatever ve -
tiges 0 support existed for
Operation Ju t Cause and tile
U.S.-installed government of
Guerillernio Endara has
'evap�r ted.
hi dozens Qf interview
" �ith re Iuge es , s tud c n ts ,
. labor officials, comm unit ..
ac ivists, profe s io na ls ,
workers, religious leaders
and poli ticicws, one theme
resounded unequivocally:
Panama is worse today than
under Gen. Manual Noriega.
About 2,000 r ef u ge e s ,
mostly Black, remain in hor
rible and squalid eonditions
at tb Albrook Refugee
. MOST OF THE refugees
come (rom the mack neigh
borhood of EI Chorrillo that
was destroyed on the night of
the U.S. invasion. Hundreds
of homes were bombed into'
dust and hundreds more were
ki lied and injured. .
Pledges by the O -. S. and.
E ndara to tebijild the area
and provide housing to those
made hometess remain un-
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