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Rebel
Leader Confirms What Western Donors Deny: Uganda Plunders Congo
Both Uganda and Rwanda use
their extensive military presence in Congo to exploit that country financially,
rebel leader Wamba Dia Wamba tells Aktuelt (Danish daily Aktuelt
January 22, 2001, by Gunnar Willum)
Uganda
'Plunders' DRC, Rewarded by World Bank
This rather uncharitable article on Uganda's involvement
in Congo by freelance journalists GUNNAR WILLUM and BJØRN WILLUM
was published in Aktuelt of Denmark June 17. We reproduce it virtually
unedited to give readers a feel of what the feeling is in some circles
about Uganda's exploits in Congo (Ugandan
daily The Monitor June 21, 2000)
World
Bank Awards Illegal Financing of Army: Uganda Encouraged to Pillage Congo
Uganda resorts to extra-budgetary
financing of its military by plundering gold- and diamondmines in neighboring
Congo. The World Bank, however, claims that Uganda is living up to donor
conditions of not spending more than 2 percent of the country's Gross
Domestic Product on the military. Therefore Uganda has become the first
country in the world to be nominated for debt relief amounting to 2 billion
dollars (Danish daily Aktuelt June 17-18, 2000)
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