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Zim gets a partner in crime
10/05/2006 17:15 - (SA)
Harare - Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea have signed a new agreement to fight crime, reported the Zimbabwean state-owned Herald newspaper on Wednesday.
Ties between the two countries were strengthened two years ago, when Harare foiled an apparent attempt to overthrow the government in Malabo.
The Herald quoted Zimbabwe's attorney-general Sobusa Gula-Ndebele at the signing ceremony: "The agreement will help in strengthening the relations between the two countries and will also benefit Zimbabwe as it will open other areas of possible co-operation."
The Herald said the agreement would also "promote exchange of information, training, mutual legal assistance and institutional rapport between the two African nations".
Relations between the two nations were bolstered in 2004, when police in Zimbabwe arrested a plane-load of mercenaries destined for Equatorial Guinea.
The mercenaries had apparently planned to overthrow the government of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
Most of the mercenaries served jail terms in Zimbabwe and have since been released, but ringleader Simon Mann is still in a high-security prison near Harare.
- SAPA
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