A top US general has denied recent claims by Zimbabwean government officials that Washington is establishing a military base in neighboring Zambia and is supporting the country economically in a bid to isolate Zimbabwe within the region. General Michael Langley, head of US Africa Command, or AFRICOM, described as “absolutely false” Zimbabwe’s claims that the United States is setting up a military base in Zambia and wants to move AFRICOM operations there from Germany. We have no plans to put one there,” Langley said during an African Chiefs of Defense Conference in Botswana last week. However, Mnangagwa later said he did not call Zambia a security or a client state of the US in a conversation with Putin. “In other words, they want to pursue their foreign goals through a situation of misunderstanding and even conflict between two neighboring African states.”

Source: The North Africa Journal July 02, 2024 12:31 UTC