No BDF troops for DRC

Security sources have confided that upon a briefing at the African Union (AU), a cabinet meeting resolved that it would be too early and expensive for BDF to take part in the DRC war zone.

"The situation in DRC is totally different from Somalia, Mozambique and Lesotho in which Botswana took part in a peacekeeping mission.  It is a war, and cabinet felt Batswana were not prepared to receive tens of body bags packed with their dead children.  It is a war, and again, Botswana has no money to sustain its troops should it deploy them there," a source said.