. "It is a conflict that quickly drew in the armies of Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia, and other countries, and has created an unending nightmare for the U.N. Only educated guesses about the number of dead can be made in a region that hasn???t had an official census since 1984, but it is estimated that the war has claimed as many as 4.7 million people???the worst loss of life in an armed conflict since Wo" . . .