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Did The “An Yue Jiang” Delivered Its Arm Shipment To Zimbabwe? A couple of weeks ago there was an international uproar surrounding a Chinese ship the An Yue Jiang, carrying weapons of mass destruction umm sorry, ammunition which included assault rifles, mortar rounds and rocket propelled grenades destined for Mugabe’s government.

Image via Wikipedia We began the month of May 2008 . . . still not knowing the official results for the Presidential elections or the run-off day. And The Chinese Arms Ship, the An Yue Jiang, was still docked in Angola. By the of end the month of May 2008 1.

ITF Press Release (20 May) on the An Yue Jiang May 23rd, 2008 This Press Release from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) was released on the 20 May 2008. It follows on from this news that the weapons had arrived in Harare.

China is delivering weapons to a man murdering his own people while at the same time asking the world to help save its citizens. And the world complies. Shame on the world.THE ZIMBABWEAN government said yesterday that weapons carried by China's so-called "ship of shame", the An Yue Jiang, had arrived

We’ve been alerted to two reports via our comments today: The first came from Tokunbo, alerting us to an article published yesterday in the Mozambican press. It’s in Portuguese - can anyone do us a rough translation of the key facts? The second alert via Tara, to this article published today.

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu comments on the “Ship of Shame” that was carrying Chinese arms for Zimbabwe. It seems to be headed back to China after offloading “construction materials” in Luanda, but it might be headed for Congo-Brazzaville. Others speculate that a ship-to-ship transfer is still possible.

The An Yue Jiang is limping back into the news. Last week we called attention to an article in the Nyasa Times that informed us that Malawi was playing a role in helping to ensure the weapons arrived in Zimbabwe.

News today: “Malawi set to clear Zimbabwe arms” April 29th, 2008 The Nyasa Times has this report today and it seems a lot more plausible to me than yesterday’s Hollywood-style information regarding Venezula: Malawi government has sent a top three man national intelligence experts to Angola to look

Last we heard it was in Angola, and we were told that the weapons would not be unloaded there. However this news was accompanied by information that Mnangagwa was visiting so I’m afraid I took all the good news with a massive dose of sceptisim.