Zimbabwe’s military in Congo: Launching pad of corruption
When opportunity presented itself in the form of widespread warfare in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwean military leaders were quick to provide troops in exchange for permission to establish Zimbabwean corporations to exploit Congolese raw materials.
Tags: Air Commodore Mike Tichafa Karakadzai, Air Marshall Perence Shiri, Brigadier General Sibusiso Busi Moyo, Burundi, Colonel Simpson Sikhulile Nyathi, Colonel Tshinga Dube, Congo gold and diamonds, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC President Laurent Kabila, economic "structural adjustments", Economic Structural Adjustment Program (ESAP), elites, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, General Vitalis Musunga Gava Zvinavashe, Jean Damu, John Mikembe, Joint Operations Command, Joseph Kabila, Morgan Tsvangirai, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), National Security Council, personal enrichment of military leaders, political elite, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, Rhodesia, Rwanda, Sidney Sekeramayi, Solomon Mujuru (aka Rex Nhongo), Thamer Bin Said Ahmed Al-Shanfari, Uganda, wealth accumulation, Western economic sanctions, ZANLA Deputy Commander Solomon Mujuru, ZANU-PF, Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA), Zimbabwe Executive Vice President Grace Mujuru, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe
The conflict in the Congo is a resource war waged by U.S. and British allies
The December 2008 United Nations report is the latest in a series of U.N. reports dating from 2001 that clearly documents the systematic looting and appropriation of Congolese resources by Rwanda and Uganda, two of Washington and London’s staunchest allies in Africa.
Tags: Add new tag, African Union, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Burundi, CNDP, Congo, Congolese people, deadliest conflict in the world, Dr. Clet Niyikiza of GlaxoSmithKline, East African free trade zone, eastern Congo, FDLR, former President Bill Clinton, French President Nicholas Sarkozy, Gen. Jean Bosco Ntaganda, Gen. Laurent Nkunda, Herman Cohen, human rights abuses, International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, Joe Ritchie, Kagame's Presidential Advisory Council, Kambale Musavuli, National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP), reparations, Rev. Rick Warren, Rwanda, Rwanda Development Board, Rwandan Investment Group, Scott Ford of Alltell, Southern African Development Community (SADC), Tanzania, the Rwandan Investment Group, Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa, Uganda
Merchants of death: Exposing the corporate-financed holocaust in Africa
Blacked out by a media smokescreen are the corporate executives, government officials and expatriate personnel of Western enterprises whose success amidst chaos implicates them in the deracination and death of millions of Black people.
Tags: Acholi, Africa Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI), Africa Wildlife Foundation, African Rights, Alliance for the Democratic Liberation of Zaire (ADFL), Alpha Konare, Alston & Bird, Andrew Young, AngloGold Ashanti, Anthony Lake, Armed Forces for the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC), Barrick Gold, Bill Clinton, Bill Richardson, Bob Dole, Bogoro, Bunia, Burundi, Center for American Progress (CAP), Christiane Amanpour, Christopher Hitchens, Congo, Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), Conservation International, Darfur, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, Donald Payne, Ed Royce, Etienne Denis, Forces for the Democratic Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), Forces Patriotiques pour la Libération du Congo (FPLC), Front Congolaise Pour la Justice au Congo (FPJC), Front for Patriotic Resistance of Ituri (FPRI), Front for the National Liberation of Kivu (FNLK), Gayle Smith, George Rupp, Glencore International, H Oil & Minerals Ltd., Hillary Clinton, International Criminal Court, International Military Education and Training Program (IMET), Jacques and Alvaro Hachuel, James Rubin, Jane Goodall Institute, Jeffrey Gettleman, Joe Ritchie, John Bredenkamp, John Garang, John Podesta, Joseph Kabila, Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps, Keith Harmon Snow, Kivu, Laurent Desiré Kabila, Laurent Nkunda, Leon Panetta, Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Madeleine Albright, Mai Mai, Marc Rich, Maurice Tempelsman, Mike McCurry, Moto Gold Mining Co., Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC), Mwana Africa, National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP), National Integrationist Front (FNI), Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, ONE Campaign, Orientale, Patrice Lumumba, Paul Kagame, Paul Rusesabagina, Peter Seligman, Philip Gourevitch, President-elect Barack Obama, Raise Hope for Congo, René Lemarchand, Richard Leakey, Robert McFarlane, Roger Winter, Rwanda, Rwanda Defense Force (RDF), Rwanda Patriotic Front/Army (RPF/A), School of the Americas, Silverback Cargo Freighters, Stevens and Schriefer Group, Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), Susan Rice, Tanzania, The Hague, Thomas Pickering, Titanium Resources Group, Tom Daschle, Tony Blair, U.S. Army Special Forces Command (SOCOM), Uganda, Umicore, Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC), United Nations Observers Mission in Congo (MONUC), Walter Hailwax, Walter Kansteiner, Wildlife Direct, Yoweri Museveni
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