ZIM WITHDRAWAL FROM DRC?

ZIMBABWE’s usually docile legislators shocked their political masters in government on Wednesday by demanding the country immediately pull out its troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo where they have been propping up government forces against a rebel uprising. They said the money the government is spending on the war in DRC should instead be used to revitalise the country’s faltering health delivery system which has further been badly affected by a three-week doctors’ strike over pay. The government is spending $3-million a month on the war, a figure the International Monetary Fund said Monday might be a gross under-estimate of Zimbabwe’s actual expenditure. It said a Zimbabwe government memo leaked to the fund showed military expenditure of $27-million a month.