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Denmark freezes aid

    JOHANNESBURG

    Denmark announced on Monday that it was suspending its US $12.8 million road construction project with Zimbabwe following the violent murder of three opponents of the ruling ZANU-PF party of President Robert Mugabe, media reports said.

    Denmark's Cooperation minister, Jan Troejborg reportedly said: "It would have been the wrong signal under the present circumstances to go ahead with this road construction project." Troejborg, however, said existing projects financed by Denmark in Zimbabwe would continue, although he had not taken
    any decision about future projects.

    Denmark, whose annual aid budget for Zimbabwe for this year stands at between US $42 million and US $60 million, has in the past criticised Mugabe's government for its involvement in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

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