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Government criticised over Great Lakes

    JOHANNESBURG

    The leader of the opposition United Democratic Movement (UDM) in South Africa, Bantu Holomisa, has criticised the government for failing to respond to allegations that it had provided arms to Rwanda and Uganda.

    Holomisa, who made the allegations recently in parliament, said in a statement the foreign minister, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and her deputy, Aziz Pahad, had shown “indifference” to parliamentary procedures by failing to respond. “This raises questions about their sincerity about the promotion of democracy on the continent when they have been busy arming non-democratic regimes in Uganda and Rwanda which has resulted in the proliferation of weapons of war in the Great Lakes region and has a clear linkage with the wars in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo,” Holomisa said.

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