"Africa rejects action on Zimbabwe"

Who Appointed Tony Blair as Africa's Messiah?
For those who are uninformed, Blair's hopes for increasing foreign aid to Africa by an additional $25 billion per year may seem not only reasonable, but commendable. The proposed foreign aid increase was suggested in a report by Blair's Commission for Africa that, among other things, urges Africa to reform itself, and for the Western powers to be more sensitive to the continent's plight. However, the absurdity, even outrageousness of Blair's piety and the implication that Africa made its own mess, are apparent only when one understands that, in this instance, Great Britain is not unlike an individual who offers to help pay the medical expenses of a crime victim when the good Samaritan is actually the person who perpetrated the rape, robbery and humiliation of the patient.

Racism Rebooted
Forty years after the fact, Edgar Killen is finally convicted of manslaughter in the killings of three civil rights workers. But the system that produced him remains alive and well.

Recruiters Sink to New Lows
During the Vietnam War, protesters burned draft cards, rallied on campuses and marched on Robert McNamara's Pentagon. Today, with the war in Iraq raging on and on, parents, teachers and other community leaders are spearheading a new antiwar effort, telling the military to keep their hands off the children. The Times' Bob Herbert put it well: "The parents of the kids being sought by recruiters to fight this unpopular war are creating a highly vocal and potentially very effective antiwar movement."

Ecuador Refuses to Sign Immunity Pact for U.S. Forces
Ecuador will not sign an agreement with the United States granting U.S. military personnel special immunity from the International Criminal Court, even if refusing to do so means aid cuts from Washington, the foreign minister said Thursday.

Fallujah's 9/11: U.S. Used Weapons of Mass Destruction
Iraqi Defense Minister Hazem Al-Shaalan promised that the day would be decisive. It wasn't. It was inhumane beyond belief, almost beyond comprehension.

Central African Republic:
Disarmament of former combatants begins

Cameroon, Togo, Gambia "bought by whaling nations"
Japan and other pro-whaling nations only narrowly lost several votes at this year's meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC); the closest run since commercial whaling bas banned in 1986. Anti-whalers claim that the close vote is due to Japan "buying" the votes of new and poor IWC members such as Cameroon, Togo and The Gambia and call for diplomatic sanctions.

Southern Africa launches first war games
Southern Africa launched its first war games with 3,300 troops from 12 countries in Botswana's northern Maun region on Thursday.

Children work as slaves in many parts of West Africa

Locusts threaten northern Africa

Why Africa won't condemn Zimbabwe blitz
Foreign ministers from the G8 grouping of the world's richest and most powerful countries have called on other African leaders to denounce the forced evictions which are causing so much suffering in Zimbabwe.

Remember that most of the mainstream media in and out of Zimbabwe are white owned. Their anti-Mugabe campaign started after President Mugabe commenced the land reclamation exercise, which saw for the first time a government in Africa reclaiming lands that were stolen by colonial whites. BBC is at the forefront of the racist anti-Mugabe campaign.

Aid in exchange for alienating Zimbabwe
Today, European/ American 'Aid' is tied to getting African leaders to alienate President Mugabe and Zimbabwe. Among other methods, such as sanctions, this is often accomplished by adding restrictive control measures before aid is released.

Africa rejects action on Zimbabwe
The African Union has rejected calls from the UK and the US to put pressure on Zimbabwe to stop its demolition of illegal houses and market stalls.
[South Africa] Presidential spokesman Bheki Khumalo said he was "irritated" by calls from UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to do more to end the "horrors" in Zimbabwe.
South Africa refuses to accept the notion that because suddenly we're going to a G8 summit, we must be reminded that we must look good and appease the G8 leaders," he said. "We will do things because we believe they are correct and right."

Mugabe: Shades of Pol Pot

This is another racist and hostile article. These reports failed to mention that the hardships in Zimbabwe, which includes a rise in crime and black market trade, is as a direct result of US/European sanctions on Zimbabwe because of the land reclamation exercise. See: 'This time, Bob, it's personal'

"Chester Crocker, the [U.S.] Assistant Secretary of State of African Affairs when they were passing the Zimbabwe Democracy Act, one of the points he made to the Senators in testimony, and you can go to the testimony, so it is not something that's in my head, you can go to the testimony, he said, "To separate the Zimbabwean people from Zanu PF we are going to have to make their economy scream, and I hope you Senators have the stomach for what you have to do." Source: The Zimbabwe Elections 2005