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A report released by the Bush administration’s think-tank, the Council on Foreign Relations in 2006 titled “More than Humanitarianism: A Strategic US Approach Toward Africa” predicted that sub-Saharan Africa is “likely to become as important a source of US energy imports as the Middle East”.
The US has been sponsoring regime change in the Middle East to control the region’s vast oil wealth.
Zanu-PF spokesperson Cde Rugare Gumbo yesterday confirmed the meeting.
“We are meeting to review our operations as former liberation movements and to find a way forward,” he said.
Cde Gumbo said delegates will tour the Marange diamond fields to get first hand information on developments there.
The tour coincides with the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme’s inter-sessional meeting in the US.
“They will also tour Chiadzwa for them to be aware of what is happening there and the challenges we are facing.
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“We want them to get informed on the situation at Chiadzwa so that they can wad off unnecessary criticism.”
President Mugabe is expected to address the meeting on Friday.
A communiqué will be released after the meeting, with delegates leaving on Sunday.
The liberation movements first met in Tanzania in 2010.
At a meeting in Namibia last year, they resolved to meet on the sidelines of annual Sadc summits.
Their meeting in Harare comes on the heels of an extraordinary summit of Sadc heads of state and government held in Angola last week.
At their summit in Namibia, the liberation movements pledged to close ranks against all forms of colonialism and called for the unconditional removal of the West’s illegal economic sanctions regime.
They noted that their coming together has its historical origins in the Frontline States, the precursor of the Southern Africa Development Co-ordination Conference that later became Sadc.
It was resolved at the Windhoek summit that the liberation movements collaborate with the African Union and Unesco to establish an African Liberation Heritage.
They also resolved to rally behind worldwide calls for the lifting of the 50-year-old US embargo on Cuba.
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