Zimbabwe’s Resource Colonialism Threatens Regional Peace Process – Global Witness Calls On Joseph Kabila To Stop Secret Timber Deal
Zimbabwe appears to have no intention of withdrawing its troops from the DRC in the foreseeable future, thus posing a serious threat to the already fragile Lusaka Peace Process. A report, Branching Out, published today by London based non-governmental organisation Global Witness(1), details the world’s largest logging deal that has been planned by the Zimbabwean government that will, if they raise the final capital, enable them to log 33 million hectares of prime rainforest, an area almost 1.5 times the area of the United Kingdom.