Vol 43 No 14 |
- AFRICAN UNION
The reformers are led by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo and Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade (even though their own reform records are less than stellar); the dissidents led by Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi are a motley collection of autocrats such as Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi and Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh who style themselves as African nationalists opposed to foreign interference...
President Robert Mugabe's 24 June order to 2 900 white commercial farmers to abandon their farms in mid-growing season gives new urgency to United Nations World Food Programme warnings that some six million people face starvation (AC Vol 43 No 11)...
The crisis threatens several incumbent rulers notably Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe whose government has been deliberately cutting off food aid to pro-opposition areas...
A Kenyan academic Michael Chege linked poverty to authoritarianism theft of state resources and commissions on contracts under regimes such as those of Cameroon's Paul Biya Gabon's Omar Bongo Kenya's Daniel arap Moi Togo's Gnassingbé Eyadéma and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe...
Vol 43 No 10 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Solidarity with President Robert Mugabe is replaced by pressure for a power-sharing government and constitutional reform...
To show he regards his domestic problems as under control Mwanawasa last week visited President Robert Mugabe as well as Tanzania's President Benjamin Mkapa...
When President Robert Mugabe won his dubious election last month (AC Vol 43 No 7) Mkapa effusively extended 'Our warmest congratulations on the deserved presidential mandate the people of Zimbabwe have given you'...
In a brutal game of political chess with his opponents President Robert Mugabe now seems to be stalemated...
President Robert Mugabe's government has cut violence but selectively: some violence on farms has been halted but there have been many retributive attacks on workers and farmers believed to have backed the opposition...
Among the wealthy and well-connected individuals and companies under scrutiny by the EU and USA are: President Robert Mugabe and Grace (née Marufu): Western investigators have been tracking Mugabe's funds without much success though some claim they have linked accounts in Liechtenstein to the ruling family...