As the brutal dictator Mugabe, plans to run for another term in office, Zimbabwe’s articulate Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, has said that the country should invite international observers and a peacekeeping force to help ensure that the next national general election is free and fair. Mr. Tsvangirai who was addressing a party rally just outside [...]
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, has ordered the sacking and detention of six top police and army officials in the latest wave of arrests targeting security bodies in the West African state. Those arrested include Inspector General of Police Ensa Badjie and Commander of the Navy Sarjo Fofona. The Gambian government has declined to comment further [...]
Are the people of Zimbabwe really celebrating Robert Mugabe’s 86th Birthday? What is there to celebrate about this aberrant human form? Thirty years in power and nothing good to show for it. He is determined to cling on to power for the rest of his life despite embarrassingly losing an election to a more dignified [...]
Who said Robert Mugabe is a Goblin? That person is quite right. According to the dictionary, ‘ Goblins are demons of any size, usually in human or animal form, that are supposed to assail, afflict, and even torture human beings: “Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn’d, …” (Shak. Hamlet I, iv). Gnomes [...]
At a meeting of ZANU-PF supporters, Robert Mugabe has told his followers to prepare for elections which he claims would be held soon. Mugabe who was speaking in his capacity as the leader of Zanu-PF at the end of the party’s congress said “Elections are not very far off, the inclusive government was given a [...]
According to government spokesman, Webster Shamu, the Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe may appoint acting ministers in place of officials from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party who are boycotting cabinet meetings. The spokesman said that Mugabe is concerned that the MDC boycott was affecting the government’s work in preparing for a new farming season and its [...]
The Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai has officially announced that the MDC party will disengage from the Unity government over the Roy Bennett issue. He said that outstanding issues within the power-sharing arrangements should be dealt with before the MDC can work again with the Mugabe led Zanu-PF. Roy Bennett a senior member of [...]
The junta leader in Guinea, Moussa Dadis Camara, has been accused of massacring his own people by the French government. Bernard Kouchner, the French Foreign Minister has reportedly accused the Guinean dictator of possibly ordering the shooting of protesters in last week’s unrests in the capital, Conakry.Kouchner said France had every reason to believe that [...]
Over the years, African states have not been able to see the concept of democracy and good governance as issues which go beyond merely voting political leaders into positions of trust. They have forgotten the sad reality that democracy and good governance encapsulate the need for political accountability, press freedom, and the existence [...]
What is wrong with Robert Gabriel Mugabe? Why doesn’t he understand that he is a very small man amongst big men? It is a fact that Mugabe is educated. Then why doesn’t he see the writing on the wall? Zimbabwe will not get the help it desperately needs if he doesn’t abide by the peace [...]
South Africa’s President, Jacob Zuma, is in Zimbabwe for talks with the country’s leaders. This is his first visit to the country since he became President of South Africa. Mr Zuma met with President Mugabe and Prime Minister Tsvangirai and had talks with both leaders on ending the stalemate in the Unity Government. There are [...]
