By RFIPalled on 07-09-2019Modified on 07-09-2019 at 07:45

In the DRC, former President Joseph Kabila remembered former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's saving efforts towards Kinshasa in 1998. His father, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, was in power at the time. .

"We will forever remember the worthy son of Africa who flew to help our country victim of an external aggression," Joseph Kabila responded to the announcement of the disappearance of Robert Mugabe, Friday, September 6.

We will forever remember the worthy son of Africa who flew to the rescue of our country, then a victim of external aggression. The continent has lost one of the great panafricanists, a hero of the struggle for independence #Mugabe #Zimbabwe

Joseph Kabila K (@drcJosephKabila) September 6, 2019

For the record, in early August 1998, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, installed in power for a few months but faces a war imposed by his former allies, the same who had helped to overthrow Marshal Mobutu. Asked to return to their countries without notice, the Rwandan and Ugandan soldiers and other foreign mercenaries then gather in eastern DRC and start a war that seriously threatens the regime of Laurent-Desire Kabila. We believe all hope lost, including for the capital Kinshasa ...

That's when Robert Mugabe spontaneously responds to the call of the Congolese authorities, explains a former companion of Laurent-Désiré Kabila. According to this witness, the arrival of the Zimbabwean troops on the battlefield was of a great contribution and it is Emmerson Mnangagwa , the current president of Zimbabwe, who coordinated this contingent.

This confirmed Jeannot Kongolo Mwenze , former Minister of the Interior and Justice Laurent-Desire Kabila. For him, this Zimbabwean contribution of Robert Mugabe began well before the so-called war of aggression. During the AFDL's progress, explains the former minister, Zimbabwe was providing planes for our travel inside the country so we had not yet taken power. For him, Robert Mugabe is a master who never betrayed.

Free contribution? To this question, some sources who prefer anonymity evoke the Sengamines, a diamond mining company set up in Kasaï with Zimbabwean shares.

► See also : Emmerson Mnangagwa visits DRC: towards renewed support for Kabila?

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