AFRICA’S WARS

“It may be that three million people or more died as a result of Africa’s wars over the past decade,” according to the newspaper Lesotho Today. Estimates of deaths in the Ethiopian War range “between 500,000 and one million.”

According to The Star of Johannesburg, South Africa, an estimated 600,000 lives have been lost in Mozambique during its civil war, among them 380,000 children. This is more than ten times the death toll of Americans in the Vietnam War.