ZIMBABWE will begin a phased withdrawal of troops from the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the end of the month, the privately-owned weekly Financial Gazette said on Thursday. The paper quoted military sources as saying under a preliminary plan, 5000 troops will be withdrawn at the end of June while the remainder will pull out in July when United Nations peacekeeping forces are expected to be fully deployed in the DRC. Despite widespread opposition at home, Mugabe has deployed 11000 troops, a third of the Zimbabwean army, to the 22-month- old war to support President Laurent Kabila against a Tutsi-led rebellion backed by Uganda and Rwanda. Zimbabwe’s costly involvement in the conflict, which some analysts say has carried a price tag of hundreds of millions of dollars, has added to the woes of the country’s economy.
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