1998 in Zimbabwe

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August 6 - Fighting spreads across DRC and on borders with Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania. Rwanda continues to deny involvement with the rebels and a summit is held in Zimbabwe discussing the conflict.^[1]
August 8 - The talks fail to secure a truce of a ceasefire between the countries at the summit in Zimbabwe.^[2]
August 10 - Military experts from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Tanzania are due in Kinshasa later this week to investigate allegations of Rwandan and Ugandan troops being sent across the border.^[3]
August 21 - South African President Nelson Mandela calls for a summit over the Congo conflict on Saturday, inviting the leaders of DRC, Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe to come.^[4]
August 27 - After over two hundred civilians are reported to be killed by DRC rebels, Zimbabwe criticises countries that have been secretly aiding the rebels, who called for a ceasefire.^[5]

September 3 - South Africa now says it supports the intervention of DRC by Namibia, Zimbabwe and Angola, supporting Kabila.^[6]

December 4 - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe defends fighting for DRC, referring to the foreign involvement in Bosnian War.^[7]
December 5 - The rebel leader said that Angolan and Zimbabwean troops have launched a counter-offensive against his troops in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.^[8]

↑ "Fighting spreads in Congo". 6 August 1998. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
↑ "Congo talks fail to secure truce". 8 August 1998. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
↑ "OAU mediators in Congo". 10 August 1998. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
↑ "Mandela calls summit over Congo". 21 August 1998. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
↑ "More deaths in eastern Congo reported". 27 August 1998. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
↑ "South Africa shifts position on Congo". 3 September 1998. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
↑ "Mugabe defends fighting for Congo". 4 December 1998. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
↑ "Government offensive in Congo". 5 December 1998. Retrieved 8 February 2015.

1998 in Africa
Sovereign states	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
States with limited recognition	Anjouan Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland
Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Ascension Island Mayotte Réunion Saint Helena Tristan da Cunha Western Sahara

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