Residents of Chicago's 49th Ward know political corruption and horror. But not even Alderman Joe Moore is as bad as Robert Mugabe, strongman of Zimbabwe. This African nation has been a hellhole for decades. It is a basketcase nation on a basketcase continent.
The Economist writes today that "Zimbabwe needs its neighbours to help rescue its people from hell." One can only hope that the Zimbabweans don't hold their breath. African nations are not know for helping their neighbors.
SINCE Robert Mugabe lost the first round of a presidential election at the end of March to Morgan Tsvangirai, he has stopped at nothing to steal the second round on June 27th....
Several million famished Zimbabweans depend on foreign aid to keep them alive, yet he has banned most foreign agencies from operating around the country, partly to prevent them witnessing the horrors he is inflicting on those he suspects of disloyalty, and partly to use food to coerce people into voting for him.
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Savagery in Africa
Residents of Chicago's 49th Ward know political corruption and horror. But not even Alderman Joe Moore is as bad as Robert Mugabe, strongman of Zimbabwe. This African nation has been a hellhole for decades. It is a basketcase nation on a basketcase continent.
The Economist writes today that "Zimbabwe needs its neighbours to help rescue its people from hell." One can only hope that the Zimbabweans don't hold their breath. African nations are not know for helping their neighbors.
SINCE Robert Mugabe lost the first round of a presidential election at the end of March to Morgan Tsvangirai, he has stopped at nothing to steal the second round on June 27th....
Several million famished Zimbabweans depend on foreign aid to keep them alive, yet he has banned most foreign agencies from operating around the country, partly to prevent them witnessing the horrors he is inflicting on those he suspects of disloyalty, and partly to use food to coerce people into voting for him.
Read this and the related article in The Economist.
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