Mugabe Up To His Old Tricks Again in The DRC
It was the War in the DRC that broke the Zimbabwean economy. That was the war that set us on the slippery slope to economic ruin and the Moustached One is at is again. For in-depth coverage, the Mail and Guardian would be a good place to start, but for your Executive Summary, here goes: Backed by Rwanda, Laurent Nkunda has invaded the DRC and is causing mayhem in the western part of the country, around the Goma region. That devastation can now be seen from space on Google Earth. Nkunda now accuses Zimbabwe and Angola of widening the conflict by wading back into the fray. Zimbabwe denies this. The fighting has now displaced a whole load of people and it is increasingly clear that this provocation is at the behest of Rwanda. But President Kagame's motive in all this is not all that clear. Some think that it has to do with his territorial ambitions. Rwanda is such a small country and it is believed that Kagame wants to expand its size by encouraging the Western parts of the DRC to bre...