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African leaders at odds over Mugabe issue
Africa Leader
Wednesday 2nd July, 2008
An African Union summit has been divided on how to deal with the re-election of President Robert Mugabe.
Even though the weekend poll has been condemned by world leaders, AU delegates have been divided between those who want Mugabe to step aside and others reluctant to publicly censure the veteran leader.
Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma, the member most critical of Mugabe told BBC radio: 'The people of Zimbabwe have been denied their democratic rights. We should, in no uncertain terms, condemn what has happened.'
Koroma said the AU should insist Mugabe engages with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to discuss a transitional government and fresh elections.
Mugabe has already rejected the idea of a Kenya-style power-sharing solution, which was floated by several summit leaders his week.
Mugabe threatened before the summit to point at African leaders who themselves were in power undemocratically.
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| By Alonzo Real Mercado, 07-02-08, 06:47 AM |
African leaders at odds over Mugabe issueAside from the South African president there are many leaders in Africa who condemns the antics of Mugabe i.e. murders, election cheating, corruption, bribery, etc to stay in power.
Mugabe’s days are numbered. He should go now while there is still some semblance of order in the country. People are hungry and angry. What ever land reform there was, it did not solve the food shortage in the country. The veterans were no farmers at all. The white farmers who were producing food in their farms are almost gone. They had the same right as the veterans to farm the land. They should not be forced out and should be compensated if their farms are expropriated by Mugabe. This is reverse discrimination. |
| By Anonymous, 07-02-08, 11:19 AM |
At odds. Of course they at odds. Despots rule in more than one country in Africa. Selling there countrys souls to devil. They cant turn back. Feel sorry for all those people. People on borrowed time. |
| By Anonymous, 07-02-08, 08:54 AM |
| there is no such thing as reverse discrimination, Mugabe is driven by a sociopathic lust for power and a ever consuming hatred for any and everyting he perceives as a treat, and that goes even for his own people! |
| By wacama, 07-02-08, 01:33 PM |
| The Africanners allowed the Mugabe
presidency to continue to bleed the countrys wealth and let his people blled to death is all the fault of the African people. They know hi scrook to the bone and them get away with it. |
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