Zimbabwe implicated in CIA torture programmes

Zimbabwe is one of the 54 countries exposed in a US Senate Intelligence Committee report as having assisted the George W Bush administration's CIA programme that included torture of terrorism suspect.

Committee chairperson Senator Dianne Feinstein tabled the explosive report onTuesday that revealed the details of US torture techniques.

The detailed probe report concluded that 54 countries around the world assisted the CIA's programme-25 of them in Europe. There are also 13 African countries that assisted the Bush administration on the programmes.

The Open Society Foundation and United Nations listed the following African countries as complicity Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, and Kenya.

The other countries are Libya, Malawi Mauritania, Somalia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Morocco was the only country on the list that hosted a CIA prison.