According to its founding leader Mao Zedong and current President Xi Jinping, the People’s Republic of China has a “magic weapon”. It’s called the United Front Work Department, and it’s causing as much concern in the West as Beijing’s expanding military arsenal. United Nations forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have begun to guard farmers tending to their fields in the country’s unstable eastern area. Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo has been designated as the hospital with the highest patient fatality rate in the country, based on admission statistics from January to August.
