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More troops to Congo

    JOHANNESBURG

    Zimbabwe is deploying more troops to southeastern Congo following the collapse of an allied offensive against Rwandan-backed RCD rebels, the ‘Zimbabwe Independent’ reported on Friday. Quoting military sources, the weekly said that an infantry battalion of up to 1,000 men was to be dispatched from the southern city of Bulawayo to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

    The newspaper added that the government sent 130 paratroopers in December to stiffen the forces of President Laurent-Desire Kabila after the loss of the towns of Pepa and Pweto to the rebels. More paratroopers are expected to follow. Some 300 Zimbabwean troops, along with several thousand DRC government soldiers and allied Rwandan and Burundi militia were driven into Zambia in November and December after their offensive was checked by the RCD and Rwandan troops.

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