NAMIBIAN president Sam Nujoma flew to Harare on Sunday for talks with his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe and their ally, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) president Laurent Kabila for a mini summit. After the talks Mugabe yesterday slammed critics of Zimbabwe’s costly war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and said his troops would stay until peace was assured. “Not until we are guaranteed the security of the Congo and the sustenance of the government of President (Laurent) Kabila will we pull out,” Mugabe told reporters after a three-hour meeting with Kabila and Nujoma. “We need our allied troops with us all the time whenever there is a threat from our enemies. Their withdrawal depends on the aggressors,” Kabila said. Angolan President Eduardo dos Santos did not attend Sunday’s meeting and was represented by his ambassador in Harare. The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has blamed Zimbabwe’s battered economy partly on the 22-month-old war, which is draining US$3 million a month from the treasury.