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Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe Isolated As Allies Turn Their Backs
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 6-24-2008 | Louis Weston and Peta Thornycroft

Posted on 06/24/2008 3:24:08 PM PDT by blam

Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe isolated as allies turn their backs

By Louis Weston and Peta Thornycroft in Harare
Last Updated: 7:48PM BST 24/06/2008

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has sunk deeper into isolation as African leaders turned against him and called for South African President Thabo Mbeki, his most important protector, to do the same.

The leaders of Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana and Angola have all turned their backs on President Mugabe

The Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade and Jacob Zuma, leader of South Africa's ruling ANC, called for the presidential election on Friday to be postponed following the withdrawal of Mr Mugabe's rival, Morgan Tsvangirai.

The calls came in the wake of a UN Security Council statement condemning the violence in Zimbabwe, where scores of people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced in political violence.

"The ANC says the run-off is no longer a solution, you need a political arrangement first ... then elections down the line," said Mr Zuma, as his party issued a stinging denunciation of "violence, intimidation and outright terror".

South Africa has been mediating between Mr Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change and Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF for a political settlement. Such an agreement will prove harder if Mr Mugabe secures a new term in office.

Mr Mbeki, the appointed mediator of the regional Southern African Development Community, now faces pressure to turn his back on Mugabe, according to a senior western diplomat.

Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana and Angola – the latter one of Mr Mugabe's most reliable allies – have all condemned the Zimbabwean leader with Mr Mbeki left relying on South Africa's "client states" – Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland – for support.

"They have finally realised, rather too late but better late than never, that this is a regional crisis of accelerating

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; allies; mugabe; tsvangirai; zimbabwe
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To: Navy Patriot
He is an open sore in the side of communism, progressives, leftist guilty white egalitarian wusses, biased superior intellectual MSM airheads, and an embarrassment to socialist blacks.

True, and well said.

21 posted on 06/24/2008 4:16:07 PM PDT by agere_contra
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To: buccaneer81

The responsibility of Mugabe falls squarely on Zimbabweans.

The blacks were all for him taking white owned farms.

Let them free themselves from their own chains of hate, tribalism and ignorance.


22 posted on 06/24/2008 4:19:28 PM PDT by DB
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To: DB
The blacks were all for him taking white owned farms. Let them free themselves from their own chains of hate, tribalism and ignorance.

Agreed, but Western leftists like Carter and the British socialists fed them the usual radical pablum and egged them on.

23 posted on 06/24/2008 4:23:11 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: blam

Mugabe was a “Catholic Marxist.” He gained power at the height of the Liberation Theology fad. I knew at the time he would turn Zimbabwe into a hell on earth. I’m just surprised it took 30 years for Zimbabwe to reach this point.


24 posted on 06/24/2008 4:24:57 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Navy Patriot
I beg to differ... I agree with you on the fact that he is a sore in the side of all that ills the world currently, but regrettably it will come at the price of his country and his people.... he is as they say a “bad” man
25 posted on 06/24/2008 5:00:49 PM PDT by Americanwolf (no matter which way you cut it...barrack obama and hitlery are socialists)
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To: DB

amen to that!


26 posted on 06/24/2008 5:02:42 PM PDT by Americanwolf (no matter which way you cut it...barrack obama and hitlery are socialists)
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To: blam

President Thabo Mbeki — People get really dead around this POS.


27 posted on 06/24/2008 6:24:01 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: Parley Baer

“Yep, all Mugabe has to do is wait and see if Obama becomes POTUS.”

Not unlike a few others. A guy named Jefferson comes to mind.


28 posted on 06/24/2008 6:25:51 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: Americanwolf
regrettably it will come at the price of his country and his people.

Somebody has to pay, and being that all politics is local, this is the group that should pay.

Life is tough, then you die.

Or the corollary: life is tough, and it's tougher if you're stupid.*

*John Wayne

29 posted on 06/24/2008 6:54:12 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (John McCain, the Manchurian Candidate.)
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To: Navy Patriot

your statements are acurate and true.... i can not argue with the historical precident.. that has been set.... for Germany suffered for Hitler’s sins as well as Japan for Togo


30 posted on 06/24/2008 7:00:30 PM PDT by Americanwolf (You don't believe we have been invaded by Mexico?! ask the rank and file Phoenix PD what they think!)
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