US scoffs at ED

THE United States (US) government has scoffed at President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s accusations that it has established a military base in neighbouring Zambia.

Mnangagwa was recently captured on camera telling his Russian counterpart Vladmir Putin in St Petersburg that Zambia posed a security threat to Zimbabwe as its security sector was heavily funded by the US government.

He also claimed that Zambia had become an American client-State and was bent on destabilising the region.

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