U.S IMPOSES SANCTIONS ON FORMER CONGO PRESIDENT JOSEPH KABILA. (PHOTO).

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 U.S imposes sanctions on former Congo President Joseph Kabila The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila for his support of ‌Rwanda-backed M23 rebels and for fueling political instability in Congo's troubled east. The U.S. Treasury Department said M23 and its political-military arm, the Congo River Alliance (AFC), had been stoking violent conflict in eastern DRC, resulting in the deaths of thousands of civilians and a mass displacement crisis. Treasury said Kabila had provided financial support to the ​AFC in order to influence the political situation in eastern DRC, while encouraging DRC troops to defect and join AFC forces. ​It said Kabila was working to regain influence over the government by backing a candidate opposed to the current ⁠leader. DRC Deputy Prime Minister Jacquemain Shabani welcomed what he called a long-delayed U.S. move against Kabila. "He is the instigator, the initiator, the architect ​of...

PRESIDENT MUGABE SAID TODAY THAT,ZIMBABWE VETERANS HAD INDICATED THEY WANTED HIM TO RETIRE.

                          Today friday,92 year old President Robert Mugabe said veterans of Zimbabwe's independence war had indicated they wanted him to retire and he would consider it if they asked him directly.Mugbabe pointed out however that others had tried to push him out in the past and failed.He told supporters at a rally in Bindura,north of Harare,that leaders of the Zimbabwe Liberation War Veterans Association {ZLWVA} were pushing for him to step down.Mugabe,himself a war veteran and patron of the ZLWVA said the organisation would hold a ''frank'' meeting with him in the first week of April,where the veterans should freely express their views.Mugabe said in his native Shona language that ''They have this thinking that the president has overstayed and should go.So war veterans come to Harare....so that we can discuss this.No one should intimidate anyone.We will be saying,speak your mind.I will leave if that's what you want.It has to come through the party.But will that help you at this moment?''..Today friday's comments are likely to be met with scepticism,coming from a man who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980.One more photo below.                                                                                                                                                                 

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