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23 Mar, 5 tweets, 1 min read
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s close associate and Zimbabwe's honorary consul to Belarus, Alexander Zingman, being arrested by DRC police after a private meeting with former president Joseph Kabila.
The tycoon cuts deals with Mnangagwa and other leaders.
Zingman was arrested by Congolese police in Lubumbashi today after meeting with former president Joseph Kabila.
He has previously been mentioned in connection with arms deals in Zambia and Zimbabwe – which he has denied.
But he has supplied agricultural to Zimbabwe.
This comes against a backdrop of a serious political fallout between President Felix Tshisekedi and Kabila, a Mnangagwa ally.
Kabila, as only reported by The NewsHawks, was in Harare two weeks ago to secretly meet Mnangagwa. They held a private meeting over private business.
After meeting Kabila in Kinshasa, Zingman held meetings with local business partners Lubumbashi. At the end of the meeting, when he arrived at the airport about to leave for Harare, his passport was seized and he was arrested. Zingman was coming to see Mnangagwa after Kabila.
So the circle was now complete: As The NewsHawks reported; Kabila comes to see Mnangagwa, goes back to meet Zingman in DRC and then Zingman was on his way to Zim to see Mnangagwa.
This against a background of deals, Kabila's fallout with Tshisekedi and minerals/arms dealings.

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