European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 d the stars and stripes St be turmoil in Africa saturday january 30,1hundreds of somali soldiers freed Mogadishu Somalia apr one of Somalia s main warlords on Friday released nearly 400 soldiers of the country s former dictator. The former prisoners said they were not mistreated and pledged to work for somali Unity the . Envoy to Somalia praised the release for which he and Aid officials had pressed. In a Brief ceremony at the Headquarters of the once feared criminal investigation div of the former National police Gen. Mohamed Farrah aided said the release of 387 soldiers Alt he said he held was a gesture of National reconciliation. In dictator Mohammed Siad Baric s time the criminal investigation div probed crimes considered political and arrested and tortured hundreds if not thousands of suspects. Mac believe they the prisoners will Cany this message to their families and to the nation and the response will be positive Quot aided said. The soldiers were captured last april when Siad Baric who had been chased from Mogadishu 14 months earlier tried to recapture the capital. Siad Barrco a forces under the command of a son in Law Gen. Mohamed said Hirsi known As Gen. Morgan advanced to within 30 Miles of Mogadishu before being pushed Back. Aided a a forces chased the Siad Barre loyalists All the Way West to Kenya in less than a week. Siad Barre crossed into Kenya and was granted temporary Asylum before going into exile in Nigeria. Morgan has continued to fight in Central and Southern Somalia. Twenty two captured officers were present at Friday s ceremony and All appeared to be in Good health after 10 months in Captivity. A we were absolutely not mistreated at All Quot said col. Hassan Musa Farrah 36. Asked what he would do upon his release Musa said Quot i think my role will be to help stabilize Somalia. We arc All somalis All  aided reiterated his pledge to abide by a cease fire agreed to among the nations 14 warring factions at a Jan. 15 meeting in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. He accused Morgan of continuing violations despite the fact that morgans main Force was attacked cart this week by . And belgian peacekeepers when it re fused to halt an Advance toward the Southern port of Kismay. . And belgian troops destroyed much of Morgan s column and scattered the rest. . Special envoy Robert b. Oakley called the release a a Good humanitarian  Oakley said he and the International committee of the red Cross had each been urging aided to release the officers and enlisted , belgians Send troops in Zaire crisis Abidjan Ivory coast apr France and Belgium sent troops Friday to protect their nationals in Zaire a capita after rampaging soldiers killed the French ambassador and As Many As seven other foreigners. At least 45 people had been killed and 130 wounded most of them zairian soldiers in rioting and fighting that broke out in Kinshasa on thursday the Relief group doctors without Borders said from Brussels Belgium. Sources in Kinshasa said at least seven foreigners were among the dead including two frenchmen two lebanese two belgians and an italian. Troops Loyal to president Mobutu scuse Sicko clashed with rioting soldiers in some areas of Kinshasa a City of 3 million people along the Western Edge of the Central african nation. Hundreds of foreigners sought Refuge in embassy compounds. The estimated 800 . Nationals in Zaire including some 220 in Kinshasa apparently were All Safe and unhurt said state department spokesman Richard a. Boucher in Washington. A contingent of French marines arrived in Kinshasa on Friday afternoon and were prepared to evacuate some of the 1,000 French nationals living in Zaire. Belgium Zaire a Conner colonial ruler said it also was sending troops to Brazzaville Congo to evacuate 1,500 belgians living in Kinshasa Brazzaville is across the Congo River from Kinshasa. Kinshasa a International Airport was closed airline sources said. It rioting soldiers thursday killed French ambassador Philippe Bernard in what French officials in Paris described Friday As a machine gun attack on the French embassy. A second French citizen and an italian were killed overnight and some belgians were wounded officials said. The rioting started when Mobutu tried to pay soldiers in Kinshasa with newly printed 5-million Zaire notes. Shopkeepers Are refusing to accept the notes Worth about $2, As a show of Defiance to t Ward Mobutu and because the country a transitional government says the Money is worthless. The notes introduced by Mobutu Over the interim governments objections have come to symbolize the struggle Between Mobutu and the government he was forced to appoint under pressure from strikes and his former Western allies. The United states France and Bel cum have publicly called for Mobutu to and Over Power to the transitional government led by his Archenemy Etienne this eked. Mobutu who has ruled the former belgian Congo for 27 years has refused. He sent a message of condolence to French president Francois Mitterrand on the ambassadors death. French defense minister Pierre Joe said Bernard was hit twice in the stomach when he rushed to his office window during a machine gun attack on the embassy. The other Frenchman was killed by troops who attacked a textile factory where he was employed and the italian was shot by troops looting his Home. Fighting in Angola continues despite Hopes for cease fire Luanda Angola apr government artillery continued pounding rebel Headquarters in Central Angola on Friday while Battles raged in three other provincial capitals belying predictions by a government negotiator in Ethiopia that a cease fire would be in place by the end of the Day. Reinforcements arrived late thursday to Back government troops in a fierce artillery Battle for Unita Headquarters in Huambo 329 Miles Southeast of Luanda said angolan chief of staff Joao do Matos. Do Matos speaking on angolan National radio said government troops held strategic Access routes throughout the Highlands surrounding Huambo and were pounding rebel positions in the Center of angolans second largest City. De Matos said he had inspected government Posi Lions and ordered a counterattack after a Unita artillery offensive the Day before. Thousands have been reported killed in three weeks of Battle for Huambo since government troops attacked Jan. 9 in an attempt to drive Unita Leader Jonas Sav Imbi from his base. Heavy shelling also continued Friday Back and Forth Between government and rebel units in Kuito capital of neighbouring Mexico province and Luena 500 Miles Southeast of Luanda rebels were also shelling the Airport and Center of my Tonguc capital of Southeastern Ucundo cuban go province the radio reported. However Joao Pinnock a government represent alive at  peace talks with Unita in the ethiopian capital was optimistic that fighting was about to Stop. Pinnock said he expected a cease fire to be secured Between government troops Ami rebels by Friday night Ngop the official angolan news Agency said. Government and Unita representatives Are meet ing this week in the latest attempt to halt the renewed civil War that broke out oct. 31, after Sav Imbi rejected the results of multiparty elections in september. Peace accords signed in May 1991 called for the elections that were supposed to end the 16-year civil War waged Between Unita the National Union for the total Independence of Angola and the ruling popular movement for tax the liberation of an Gola Mola. But after Unita came out second to Mola in the september parliamentary elections and Sav Imbi lost the first round of presidential voting he withdrew to Huambo and pulled his forces together. Fighting since oct. 31 has Given Unita control of some 75 percent of this vast Southern african country. 1 the regions include Oil and Diamond regions in the North and Points within 15 Miles of Luanda. Angola s civil War broke out in 1975 on the eve of Independence from Portugal. It has became one of the cold War eras major proxy weirs i he United states and South Africa were backing Unita. The government forces were being bolstered by cuban troops and soviet  blocking Aid to epidemic area groups say Geneva apr the sudanese government is preventing Relief workers from reaching an estimated 400,000 people at risk from a killer epidemic in the South of the country . And Aid officials said Friday. The Charity mtg Pecins sans Fronti amp res doctors without Borders said it could not gain Access to the worst affected areas in the Western upper Nile Region and feared the disease would spread As a result.c-130s Fly senegalese troops Back Home from Liberia duty Rhein main a Germany a amps a airmen from the 37th Airlift so flew More than 1,300 Sene Lese soldiers Back to their Homeland last week after to soldiers peacekeeping Mission in Liberia. Since december 1989, Liberia has been torn by Civ War and the senegalese soldiers were in Liberia to Sun port the peacekeeping efforts of the economic con Unity of West african states. Four . C-130 aircraft six air Crews and 40 Suppo personnel from the 37th Airlift so left Rhein main Jai t0 establish an Airlift control element made up t weather and ground control personnel at Yoff Tirpo m Dakar Senegal. 27 missions Between Jan. 17 an i. 2-, carrying 1,323 senegalese soldiers. The Teai returned to Rhein main a Jan. 25