Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 2000 — Page 9

FRIDAY, MAY 19,2000

THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

International News

Congested capital to build modem car (fork .' ACCRA, Ghana (PANA) — Construction of Ghana’s second modem car park will begin this year to ease congestion on a busy road network where indiscriminate parking by commercial drivers causes traffic jams, especially during rush hours. The three-tier carpark will be built at the Kaneshie market complex, in the west of Accra, to ease vehicular congestion on the Obetsebi Lamptey Circle-Malam road and accommodate more ve-

hicles.

The $7 million park would also ease the congestion of sellers who have abandoned their stores to trade at the main lorry station thus causing a heavy human traffic. Kwame Amporful, general manager of Accra Market Limited, told Ghana News Agency that the project would be completed in two years. It will have a capacity of 32S vehicles. The ground floor would take buses, the first floor 84 taxis, with the second floor taking 1S8 private cars. Accra City Car Park, Ghana’s first multi-story car park, located i n the city center, began trial operations in April. The Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Merchant Bank, First African Group, and Labor Enterprise Trust own the 500-car capacity park. It took two years to complete the $5.5 million park. Life returning to normal in Chokwe after floods J MAPUTO, Mozambique (PANA) — Life is returning to normal in the flood-hit district of Chokwe, in the southern Mozambican province of Gaza, as people who had fled from the floods on the Limpopo river in February and March return en masse to their

homes.

Most of the returnees had taken refuge i n the Chihaquelane accommodation center and in the neighboring district of Macia. Chokwe district administrator Agostinho Chiau told> the Mozambique News Agency about 99 percent of the people have returned to theirhomes. But 584 families decided to settle in Macia, while another 110 decided to remain in Chihaquelane, the largest of the more than 100 accommodation centers set up by the government for the flood victims. At the height of the crisis, about 80,000displaced people took shelter at Chihaquelane. Chiau also said that all Chokwe primary school pupils have resumed their studies, but the secondary school in Chokwe town still cannot be used, pending rehabilitation work after it was seriously damaged by the flooding. “While we await the rehabilitation of the secondary school, the students will have their classes at the Chokwe agricultural college,”

he said.

Ugandan, Rwandan troops engage in new fighting KAMPALA, Uganda (PANA) — With troops facing each other on their home borders, fresh fighting between Ugandan and Rwandan troops has erupted again in the Congolese city of Kisangani, Only hours after both countries Agreed to a U.N. plan to withdraw from the city. - Uganda’sdefense ministry said Rwanda started the fighting. Rwanda denies this, saying it was tyganda that started the shooting. £ “Rwanda’s army advanced to Again their positions at Bangoka tSrport, which they lost in the previous fighting. They fired mortar shells into the UPDF (Uganda Peoples Defense Force) defense at the same time,” Uganda’s minister flf state for defense, Stephen Kavuma, said in a statement. 3 “Considering the RPA advance Spd the intense fire, UPDF had no iftemative but to respond with tportar and small fire arms,” he

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15 Kavuma said fighting stopped Ifter the RPA ceased fire, stopped Ivancing and retreated to its preous positions. “Kisangani is now Im and quiet,” the minister said. He urged Rwanda to respect Rwakitun joint declaration of lay 8. which called for the two sides to move their troops away from Kisangani to outlying areas.

The minister appealed to the international community to prevail over Rwanda to allow the people of Kisangani “to move out of their homes and be able to access food

and water.”

Uganda and Rwanda agreed to withdraw their forces currently deployed in Kisangani before the

end of May.

Leaders of both countries agreed to meet in Uganda or Tanzania to iron out their differences. The prospects for a peaceful resolution of the crisis, however, are in

doubt after sporadic gunfire and the amassing of troops along their common border. . Uganda’s official daily. The New Vision, reported that the UPDF been deployed at Mpaamo and Mirama Hills. “We are just maintaining our positions to observe what is going on. We got suspicious when the Rwandese moved their troops close to the border last week,” UPDF sources were quoted as saying. The RPA ferried troops to reinforce their Nyamiyonga and

Nyabweishongwezi positions, about four kilometers from the common border. A local official in the Ugandan border town of Kabale, Savio Tumwesigye, said traffic at the border post remained normal, but travelers from both countries have abandoned the crossing point at Omukigando for fear of the Rwandese troops. ' Leaders attempt to mediate St. Vincent impasse PORT of SPAIN(IPS) — As

leaders of the eight-nation Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) sat down to discuss the future of their organization in Grenada, a notable absentee from the deliberations was Prime Minister James Mitchell, whose administration in St. Vincent and the Grenadines is under pressure to resign and call fresh general elections. Mitchell’s ruling New Democratic Party (NDP) with a slender one seat majority in the 15-mem-ber Parliament is under strong pres-

sure from the newly formed multiparty Organization in Defense of Democracy (ODD) whose membership includes the main opposition United Labor Party (UU*). The ODD has staged a number of work stoppages, closed the main: airport and has encouraged teachers and other public workers to stay away from their jobs as part of its efforts to get the government to

resign.

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