Zimbabwe going to pot under Mugabe

What do you want other countries to do if Mugabe cheats his way through the elections? Invade? It didn't work in Sudan.

It looks very much like Bob couldn't find enough people to actively screw with the election results for him, which is a very good sign. If it does come to a run-off, I predict that Tsvangirai will win comfortably.

Zimbabwean police have arrested at least five officials for allegedly under-counting votes cast for President Robert Mugabe in last month's election. Police said the election officials have been charged with fraud and criminal abuse of duty, accused of taking nearly 5,000 votes away from Mr Mugabe.

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What do you want other countries to do if Mugabe cheats his way through the elections? Invade? It didn't work in Sudan.

At what point has he been ruling with either of those in the last decade or so?

It did work in Sierra Leone though, (although Blair claimed it as a victory for the British military, when in fact most of the fighting was done by mercenaries).

Besides, for all we know starvation could be worse than having your arm hacked off with a machete. I would support military (not using private security contractors, but professional soldiers) intervention. It has worked in Africa before, and it could work here as a way of improving the lives of the people of Zimbabwe.

Why ? You'd turn Mugabe into a hero , it'd be another case of whitey robbing the natives and it'd end up in shit in any case... no they wanted it like this , they can have it.

Zimbabwe's controversial President Robert Mugabe was voted the third-greatest African of all time, topped only by South Africa's Nelson Mandela and former Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah, in a survey for New African magazine announced Wednesday.

The South Africa labour minister, Membathisi Mdladlana, said in Zimbabwe yesterday that his country had a lot to learn from President Robert Mugabe's programme of land reform.

The political opposition in South Africa denounced his remarks as "chilling".

Mr Mdladlana said during a tour of farms that it was "important that black people should also own land that they till, and know how to produce food and be self-sufficient and sustainable".

@FirstCitizen: You don't go invading countries that are at peace and pose no threat.
Keep out of Southern Africa!

@FirstCitizen: You don't go invading countries that are at peace and pose no threat.

To answer your question: we know what's going on there because we can go and see for ourselves, and because plenty of international reporters are there, and because a huge proportion of the Zim population have recently left the country and can give us first hand accounts. While it isn't paradise, it certainly doesn't justify any invasion.

Additionally, any sort of interference would justify Mugabe's anti-European line and strengthen him. In fact, I'd probably join his side and fight against an invasion myself. Keep out of Southern Africa!

first thing to do block access to all there bank accounts abroad .

Abacha Administration

The death of the general Sani Abacha revealed the global nature of graft. French investigations of bribes paid to government officials to ease the award of a gas plant construction in Nigeria revealed the global level of official graft in the country. The investigations led to the freezing of accounts containing about $100 million United States dollars.[14]

* In 2000, two years after his death, a Swiss banking commission report indicted Swiss banks for failing to follow compliance process in allowing family and friends of Abacha access to accounts and depositing amounts totaling $600 million US dollars into the accounts. The same year, a total of more than $1 billion US dollars were found in various accounts throughout Europe.[15]

[edit] Public institutions perceived as corrupt

The following list contains the institutions perceived as the most corrupt. It is culled from the Nigeria Survey and Corruption Survey Study, Final Report (June 2003) Institute for Development Research, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (IDR, ABU Zaria)[16]
Nigeria (as of 2003) Rating Institution
1 Nigerian Police
2 Political Parties
3 National and State Assemblies
4 Local and Municipal Governments
5 Federal and State Executive Councils
6 Traffic police and FRSC
7 PHCN

Nigeria corruption tsar sidelined [img]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40969000/jpg/_40969617_efcc203.jpg[/img] Nuhu Ribadu was promoted in April The head of Nigeria's anti-corruption unit has reportedly been ordered to go on year-long study leave, in an apparent attempt to sideline him.

In a statement, they also said there were credible reports indicating at least 200 were killed - including voters, police and candidates - in both the state and national elections.

The head of the European Union monitoring team, Max van den Berg, told the BBC it was one of the worst elections that the EU had observed.

hmm, the issue for the South African government is that Zimbabwe under Mugabe sheltered and supported the ANC for years when the rest of the world ignored the plight of South Africa. Mugabe has played on this debt of honour to manipulate the South Africans.

Excellent point! I think it's great that African countries try to do something about a problem in their region, even if in this case it may be that not much can be done.

It seems that Mugabe is trying to borrow from the playbook of Musharraf in Pakistan: heightening fears of civil disorder in an effort to delay (what we hope will be) the inevitable. The opposition in Zimbabwe seem to be playing with skill the hand they have been dealt: resist Mugabe but not to the point where Mugabe could claim a civil crisis and for that reason cling to power.

I am so relieved that this shipment did not get to Zimbabwe. Thank God the African leaders got together for a change and stood firm.

I hope that Monster Mugabe is beginning to get the message. As for the Chinese who support him, hope they are humiliated as well, the last thing we need is China helping run (down) Africa.