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Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Dragon

                   
allafrica.com
May 20, 2008
        
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AS OUR Saturday edition, The Weekender, was able to confirm this past weekend, the Zimbabwean government has managed to get its hands on the 77 tons of weapons that were on board the Chinese ship An Yue Jiang that tried and failed to offload them in Durban almost a month ago. [read full story]                    

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Zimbabwe: 'Ship of Shame' Cargo Delivered to Country

 allafrica.com May 20, 2008
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Weapons arrive in Zim - report

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Zimbabwe: 'Ship of Shame' Cargo Delivered to Country

allafrica.com
May 20, 2008
        

Posted to the web 20 May 2008 Christof Maletsky Windhoek ZIMBABWE has confirmed that a consignment of weapons on board the Chinese ship, the An Yue Jiang, have landed in the violence-riddled country. Five weeks ago, dockworkers in the South African port of Durban refused to handle the 'ship of...

                   

Mugabe's Dragon

allafrica.com
May 20, 2008
        

AS OUR Saturday edition, The Weekender, was able to confirm this past weekend, the Zimbabwean government has managed to get its hands on the 77 tons of weapons that were on board the Chinese ship An Yue Jiang that tried and failed to offload them in Durban almost a month ago.

Press Reports: Chinese Weapons Reach Zimbabwe

globalsecurity.org
May 19, 2008
        

Media reports say 77 tons of Chinese-supplied weapons have arrived in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, despite international efforts to keep the government there from receiving the arms. Newspapers in South Africa and Mozambique say Zimbabwe's Information Minister Bright Matonga has confirmed delivery...

                   

Update on Zimbabwe Crisis

ittp.org
May 19, 2008
        

Even as the Zimbabwe crisis worsens, an extraordinary solidarity movement has taken hold across Southern Africa--sparked by a South African dock workers' union that refused to unload a Chinese shipment of Zimbabwe-bound weapons.[1] Their refusal to facilitate Zimbabwe's crackdown has ignited a...

South Africa: Reports of Country Refuelling Chinese Arms Ship False

allafrica.com
May 19, 2008
        

Posted to the web 19 May 2008 Bathandwa Mbola Durban President Thabo Mbeki has denounced media reports suggesting that he gave an order for the Chinese ship, loaded with arms en route to Zimbabwe, to be refuelled. A Mozambican online newspaper reported on Saturday that President Mbeki had ordered...

Reports of Country Refuelling Chinese Arms Ship False

allafrica.com
May 19, 2008
        

Posted to the web 19 May 2008 Bathandwa Mbola Durban President Thabo Mbeki has denounced media reports suggesting that he gave an order for the Chinese ship, loaded with arms en route to Zimbabwe, to be refuelled. A Mozambican online newspaper reported on Saturday that President Mbeki had ordered...

                   

Violence in Zimbabwe spreads to South Africa

bloggernews.net
May 19, 2008
        

The conditions in Zimbabwe continue to deteriorate, with Mugabe postponing the run off election until June 27. In the meanwhile, violence against opposition leaders continues, with numerous reports of attacks against the opposition and against civilians. An especially bad attack was on Sunday,...

Zimbabwe claims Chicom arms delivered, China says no

prairiepundit.blogspot.com
May 19, 2008
        

Telegraph:Reports said the weapons, including three million bullets, mortar bombs and rocket-propelled grenades, had been off-loaded from the Chinese vessel, the An Yue Jiang, at the Angolan port of Lobito and flown to Harare.The ship had been the focus of international condemnation when it...

Zimbabwe claims Chicom arms delivered, Dhina says no

prairiepundit.blogspot.com
May 19, 2008
        

Telegraph:Reports said the weapons, including three million bullets, mortar bombs and rocket-propelled grenades, had been off-loaded from the Chinese vessel, the An Yue Jiang, at the Angolan port of Lobito and flown to Harare.The ship had been the focus of international condemnation when it...

DA wants answers on Zim arms

news24.com
May 18, 2008
        

Cape Town - The Democratic Alliance says it is to table parliamentary questions in a bid to get satisfactory replies on the Zimbabwean arms shipment. The party's defence spokesperson Rafeek Shah said on Sunday that his party wanted to know why the National Conventional Arms Control Committee...

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