Yet there are close links between the governing South West Africa People's Organisation (AC Vol 41 No 2) and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and President Sam Nujoma has loudly supported President Robert Mugabe's demands that Britain compensate the white farmers...
Much as Malawians resent these inequities those that crossed the south-western border to work in Zimbabwe have felt the brunt of President Robert Mugabe's election campaigning on the land issue...
The war continues to consume President Robert Mugabe's government's scarce resources: fuel shortages mass redundancies soaring inflation and interest rates in Zimbabwe are all blamed on the intervention in Congo...
President Robert Mugabe under unprecedented political pressure has little incentive to cut a deal with the former colonial power this time...
Mbeki's main objective has been to end the Congo war and make the Lusaka II ceasefire work through a delicate balance of moral suasion and economic pressure on President Robert Mugabe...
The Congo war is at the heart of President Robert Mugabe's troubles...
Vol 41 No 8 |
- AFRICA
- EUROPE
Also barely noticed behind the Gadaffi carnival and Britain's row with Zimbabwe amid President Robert Mugabe's lurching strides towards consolidating his dictatorship was France's announcement that it would effectively write-off US$7 billion of African debt within five years...
Rather than change policy now the circle around President Robert Mugabe believes it can use the state security apparatus to undercut the rural opposition and a militant squad of well-paid war veterans to intimidate opposition supporters in the towns...
President Robert Mugabe has taken over the portfolio...
It was clearly a massive protest vote against President Robert Mugabe's government but the loyalist forces were hardly mobilised as shown by the huge stayaways in ZANU-PF's core constituencies in the rural areas which make up 70 per cent of Zimbabwe...