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Namibia and Zimbabwe to get mine in DRC - Mugabe

    JOHANNESBURG

    President Robert Mugabe has revealed that his country and Namibia have been promised a diamond mine each by Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Laurent Kabila for their role in the civil war in that country.

    In an exclusive interview with South Africa’s Independent Foreign Service this week, Mugabe said that neither he nor President Sam Nujoma stood to gain personally from Kabila’s “gift”.

    “What Kabila has suggested to us, and we have worked on as payment for operations in the DRC - you know it has become quite a burden on us and our economy and on Namibia and its economy - is that there are these mines, some of the mines, which the owners left some time ago,” Mugabe was quoted as saying.

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