At last someone speaks up! Former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, is urging African leaders to do more to address the crisis in Zimbabwe. About time, but might this plea be falling on deaf ears?
His comments about the deterioration of the stimulation in Zimbabwe having a big impacts beyond the country’s borders are absolutely right.
If Mugabe uses force to get his own way, where do the countries that border Zimbabwe think the inevitable streams of refuges will go as they try to leave the the growing violence of Mugabe?
I suppose as those countries have not raised a hand to get rid of Mugabe, particularly Thabo Mbeki’s South Africa, they will just shut their borders and let them all die. Clearly if Mbeki is happy for Chinese arms shipments to pass through his country unhindered, then he can’t care too much for his fellow Africans. Thank goodness for the South African trade unions for stopping the ship from discharging it cargo.
Where is the ship off to now? I won’t be surprised to find that it turns up in Mozambique at the port of Beira.
Beira was the costal port that was used to move oil from the Mozambique coast to Zimbabwe during the to old Rhodesia independence crisis.
There are still road links between the two countries and I expect that Mozambique won’t be bothered if they have to ship the arms across their lands at the behest of the Chinese as it continues to increase its influence in that country.
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