BORDER TENSION: Chief Puta writes to HH… to resolve differences with DRCBy ADRIAN MWANZAFEARFUL of escalating border tension, Senior Chief Puta of the Bwile people of Kaputa has written to President Hakainde Hichilema to deal with the growing border row between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.Many including the traditional leaders have passionately appealed to President Hichilema to consider halting the beaconing and alienating of land exercise being conducted on the Zambia/DRC border.The exercise being done by the Surveyor General has been deemed unconstitutional as it was being done without wider consultation and without information to Zambians.SADC recently mediated in the latest border dispute between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).At the heart of the conflict is a handful of villages spread along the border on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.The disputed stretch of border between lakes Mweru and Tanganyika is only 205 kilometres and has been the source of strained relations […]
BORDER TENSION: Chief Puta writes to HH… to resolve differences with DRC
