In the absence of Zambia’s President Levy Mwanawasa, who suffered a stroke just prior to the recent African Union Meeting in Cairo, Botswana has step in and become the leading African nation standing up to Mugabe.
Announcing it will boycott the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) meeting if Mugabe is invited. This [...]
“Oryx Natural Resources (also known as Oryx Diamonds as well as other aliases), the company of Thamer Bin Saeed Ahmed Al-Shanfari, an Omani national with close ties to Mugabe and his top officials, is one of seventeen entities and one individual designated by the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control [...]
“The group will insist that the government be committed to freedom of the press and must hold fair elections within 18 months. The group will not release even a dollar to a government that includes anyone guilty either of gross corruption or human rights violations. ZANU-PF will be hard-pushed to find nine ministers who qualify.
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“The Botswana government has openly refused to recognise President Robert Mugabe as the true leader of Zimbabwe.”
“Botswana’s Minister of Foreign affairs, Phandu Skelemani, says there is currently no legal government in Zimbabwe but only leaders of different political parties seeking a political solution.”
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“No matter the color, no matter the place, once men, women and children are sufficiently dehumanized by the regime in power, the results are always the same. The slaughter will take on a determined fortitude that evolves into a frenzy and does not abate until exhaustion or outside intervention brings it to a screeching halt. [...]