How could the mercenaries get this far: the sad story of foreign-paid African mercenaries on African soil has raised its ugly head yet again with the arrests of alleged mercenaries in Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea last month. Janet Jere and Chipo Shoko report on how dangerously easy they could have got away with their plot to murder.

New African › Nbr. 2004, May 2004

Author: Jere, Janet

Position:: Zimbabwe/Equatorial Guinea

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How could the mercenaries get this far: the sad story of foreign-paid African mercenaries on African soil has raised its ugly head yet again with the arrests of alleged mercenaries in Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea last month. Janet Jere and Chipo Shoko report on how dangerously easy they could have got away with their plot to murder.

The ease and impunity with which the African mercenaries arrested in Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea last month could have accomplished their foiled feat, raises worrying questions on the state of national secu...

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