Morgan Tsva{WHACK}... sorry, I meant Robert Mugabe
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happybaboon ...SHAFT! You're damn right...
Joined: Feb 06, 2002 Posts: 27,559 Location: doing skiddds
Posted: Mon 30th Jun 10:15am Post subject:
I don't get why Morgan Tsvangirai dropped out at the last minute... 90 supporters dead is nothing compared to those who've already been killed/displaced/forced into exile in NZ.
I suppose it would make sense if he dropped out to remove all legitimacy from the election as he already knew the vote had been compromised.
Joined: Sep 23, 2005 Posts: 3,378 Location: saving the world
Posted: Mon 30th Jun 10:29am Post subject:
barcode wrote:
And thereby relinquish any political pressure on Zimbabwe's neighbours to cut oil supplies and close borders letting everybody live happily ever after.
Ignoring Zimbabwe would prevent Mugagbe's paranoid/cynical rants concerning Britain's supposed responsibility for all the countries problems being heard by anybody - achieving nothing as the ridiculous content delivers the message loud and clear.
Zimbabwe's neghibours (like most of Africa) are almost as corrupt as Mugabe. So far they have been useless and that's unlikley to change. Unless the people in Zimbabwe, SA and other countries in that region decide that they'd prefer real democracy (not just holding elections but also accepting the results peacefully) to tribalism and aid handouts these problems will continue indefinately, and that's their decision to make.
Also I have no idea what your second sentence is trying to say.
Hmmm - the white govts of Africa propped up the white abuses of democracy in Zimbabwe, and now its the turn of the black govts of Africa to prop up the black abuses of democracy.
Ebony and Ivory, living together in perfect harmony.
As I said, if Zimbabwe had oil, we would not be having this conversation.
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When the tyrant-in-waiting caught his uncle trying to flee into the jungle with a suitcase of foreign cash, Obiang put his elder on trial in a cage suspended above 1500 spectators in a rundown cinema, then sentenced him to death 101 times. Obviously, 100 times didn't do the job.
Obiang grabbed his uncle's extensive collection of skulls to make sure he inherited his rellie's magical powers for torture. And inherit those powers he did.
"El Libertador" as he now calls himself, is a comic-book villain come to life. Severo Moto, an exiled politician, told Spanish radio that Obiang once proudly "devoured" a police commissioner, literally. This official was buried without his brain or his testicles. Livers seem to go missing too.
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Good on the Kenyan PM for speaking out. It's nice to know that not all of Africa is completely kcufed up.
In one decade the country has become sub-Saharan Africa's third largest crude exporter, pumping out US$3.5 billion ($4.6 billion) a year. With that kind of cash, Equatorial Guinea now has the fourth highest income per head in the world. Cue an Emirates-like transformation with a BMW for every man and his dog, right?
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Most of his good people today have never seen a penny of that cash, with nearly half of all children under 5 still suffering from malnutrition, lack of clean water and basic sanitation.
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By 2005, journalist Peter Maass of Mother Jones Magazine would write of watching not just soldiers and locals march in Obiang's Independence Day parade, but also delegations carrying both American flags and those of Exxon, Chevron, Marathon and Halliburton.
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