ACAS Bulletin

Contents: Editorial • Political Declaration of the Congolese Rally for Democracy • The Removal of Kabila and the Alternative: the Position of the Ressemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie (RCD) • Position du Professeur Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja sur la Crise en Republique Democratique du Congo • Academics and Politics by "The Scrutator" • Why Wamba dia Wamba Needs to be Heard by "The Scrutator" • Rwanda-Uganda Intervention in the Congo by Mahmood Mamdani • South African Initiative in the Congo Crisis by Mahmood Mamdani • Comments on Regional Security and the War in the Congo by Yusuf Bangura • Union for Democratic and Social Progress (UDPS): Memorandum of the Democratic Opposition Forces by Etienne Tshisekedi • Angolan and Zimbabwean Troops in Our Country by RCD • The Congo Crisis: a Replay of the Middle-East? by Issa Shivji • Notes on the Pace of the Struggle for a New Mode of Politics in the Congo by Horace Campbell • An Agenda for Peace in the DRC and the Great Lakes Region: More Pan-Africanism is the Answer, not Less by Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem • Preliminary Thoughts on the Congo Crisis by Mahmood Mamdani • Declaration on Political Conflicts in Africa by the African Association of Political Science • Message from the Bill Martin and Merle Bowen, Co-Chairs: ACAS Annual Meeting at the 1998 African Studies Association Conference • ACAS Meetings and Panels at the 1998 ASA Conference • The newsletter discusses The Zimbabwe Mirror, Ibbo Mandaza, CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa), Jacques Depelchin, Zaire, Mobutu's regime, AAPS, SAFES, University of Dar es Salaam, Congolese Democracy Movement (CDM), Yash Tandon, Dani Nabudere, Kwesi Botchwey, the World Bank, Yoweri Museveni, the National Resistance Army, Idi Amin, Laurent Kabila, the Victoria Falls coalition, post-apartheid South Africa, an African Renaissance, the OAU (Organization of African Unity), Hutu Interahamwe, the Allied Democratic Forces, SADC (Southern African Development Community), ANC (African National Congress), SADF (South African Defence Force), ECOMOG (Economic Community Cease-Fire Monitoring Group), the MPLA government, Cabinda, oil, the UNITA rebel movement, Robert Mugabe, militarism, UN (United Nations Organization), civic groups, pro-democracy political parties, Cuito Cuanavale, military y coups, political change, Goma, Deogratias Bugera, Jean-Pierre Ondekane, and Sylvian Mbuki. Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, Banyamulenge Tutsi, the Great Lakes region, civil war, rule of law, the Security Council, the Secretary-General, Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of the Congo (AFDL), human rights, Prime Minister Lumumba, Jonas Savimbi, the CIA, Katanga, Tshombe, Paul Kagame, Nelson Mandela, Armscor, Tutsis, genocide, Julius Nyerere, the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA), the Lord's Resistance Army, FLEC, militias, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Angolan military, Maquela da Zombo, the Africa Crisis Response Initiative of the Pentagon, Kofi Annan, Salim Ahmed Salim, Olushegun Obasanjo, ECOWAS, SADCC, Maghrib Union, EAC, PTA, COMESA, Amilcar Cabral, PAIGC, development, NGOs, ZANU(PF), SWAPO, Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, the Pan African Movement, the Mai Mai, rebellion, the Banyamulenge group, the Sovereign National Conference, ASA (African Studies Association), Adotei Akwei, Amnesty International, Salih Booker, Council on Foreign Relations, Jennifer Davis, Jim Cason, Imani Countess, Africa Development Foundation, Gerald Horne, Meredeth Turshen, William G. Martin, and Michael O. West.