Chiluba to meet dos Santos

Zambian President Frederick Chiluba is to meet his Angolan and Namibian counterparts on Saturday for security talks, foreign ministry officials told IRIN. The tripartite meeting is to discuss tensions between Zambia and Angola. Lusaka has repeatedly accused Angolan troops of crossing into Zambia, while Luanda has alleged that Lusaka has not done enough to control UNITA rebels operating along the border. In the latest reported incident, suspected Angolan soldiers on Thursday shot four Zambian villagers, one of them fatally, near the border AFP quoted a private radio station as saying. Radio Phoenix said one of the villagers died at the scene while three others were seriously injured and being treated at a small government hospital at Chavuma, in Zambia's northwestern province. The four villagers from Chavuma were believed to have gone hunting and crossed the border into Angola where they were shot. The radio did not give further details. "Our colleagues are in a war situation," a senior Zambian foreign ministry official said. He added that press reports sometimes blamed Angolan government troops or UNITA rebels for border incidents when there was a general problem of banditry in the area. "Some reports attribute incidents to one or other party, but they may not be perpetrated by either side," he said. A joint security body to investigate border incidents was created in June.