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DATE=8/3/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=NAMIBIA POLITICS (L-ONLY)
NUMBER=2-252439
BYLINE=DELIA ROBERTSON
DATELINE=JOHANNESBURG
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO:  Sporadic gunfire continues to shatter the 
quiet in Katima Mulilo, a small town in Namibia's 
Caprivi Strip, following an attack on the town by 
alleged secessionists.  V-O-A's Delia Robertson 
reports from our Southern Africa Bureau, President Sam 
Nujoma has declared an indefinite state of emergency 
in Katima Mulilo.
TEXT:  There are continuing reports of occasional 
gunfire in Katima Mulilo and there is a strong police 
and military presence on the streets.  Even so, 
Namibian police officials say relative calm is 
returning to the town after an attack by as many as 
100-insurgents Monday.
Namibian President Sam Nujoma has imposed an 
indefinite state of emergency in the town and the 
police are enforcing a daily curfew from four P-M to  
eight-A-M.
The insurgents are believed to be aligned to the 
Caprivi Liberation Front which is demanding 
independence for the Caprivi Strip -- a narrow 
panhandle bordered on the north by Angola and Zambia 
and on the south by Botswana, and also by Zimbabwe 
along a small area in the northeast.
Leaders of the Front and more than 25-hundred 
supporters fled to Botswana last year after the 
Namibian Government said the Front had set up a 
military training camp in the Caprivi.  Many of the 
refugees returned to Namibia this year, but the 
Front's officials -- including its leader Mishake 
Muyonga -- have remained in exile.
"Die Republikein" a newspaper in the Namibian capital, 
Windhoek, reports Mr. Muyonga said the Front was 
responsible for the attack.  Speaking from Denmark, 
where he has been granted political asylum, Mr. 
Muyonga said the attack was just the beginning of his 
organization's struggle for independence for Caprivi.  
He added that it would be long -- but also victorious.
//REST OPT//  The United States has urged its citizens 
to leave the Caprivi Strip and has already evacuated 
members of the Peace Corps and other aid 
organizations.   (SIGNED)
NEB/DAR/PCF/RAE
03-Aug-1999 12:11 PM EDT (03-Aug-1999 1611 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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