Posted on 01/30/2015 11:24:07 AM PST by Olog-hai
The African Union’s rotating post of chairman has gone to Robert Mugabe. Zimbabwe’s veteran president enjoys respect across the continent, but faces travel bans from both the US and EU for harassing opponents.
Mugabe assumed the largely ceremonial role on Friday at an African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa as it leaders and UN chief Ban Ki-moon called for global action against Boko Haram in Nigeria. […]
Western nations accuse Mugabe, a former guerrilla leader who fought against white-minority rule in former British-ruled Rhodesia, of crushing political dissent and ruining Zimbabwe’s rural-based economy. For many in Africa, however, he became an anti-colonial hero. Since independence in 1980, his ZANU-PF party has won every election. […]
One African diplomat told the news agency AFP: “It’s not a very encouraging sign. The Mugabe style belongs to a past generation, the one that takes power hostage, and this is no longer the AU creed.” …
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Oh that Africa.
Paradise on earth.
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and we provide aid to an organization run by a racist zealot?
shame on us.
“The campaign of violence against whites, stealing their land and this guy gets rewarded for it”
Kinda reminds me of a black leader much closer to home......
In a few more years Africa will be back the way it was before the White Man found it
If it’s up to the commies running things over there, it’ll be worse.
Same fate that awaits Venezuela because they elected a Marxist leader.
Both Zimbabwe and Venezuela used to be rich countries which were trading goods with other countries. Not now. No More.
"It was my idea, so if you're against it, you're a racist!"
This is a much-needed boost to their credibility.
Hic sunt leones.
Mugabe-Biden 2016?
Mugabe makes Idi Amin look like Mary Poppins.
Free human flesh for everyone !
Exhibit A why Africa was better off under colonial rule.
They still are after a fashion, but by the communists.
Idi Amin liked liver...human livers
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