South Africa ’s deputy Minister of foreign affairs had said ZANU PF must stop violence and said if violence does not stop they will be forced to ‘act’.
The Assembly urged all parties to the Zimbabwean crisis to, without delay and under the current mediation, resume talks that should lead to a Government of National Unity.
Resolution on Zimbabwe
The African Union Assembly, meeting in its 11th Ordinary Session held on June 30 to July 1, 2008 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt,
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Tanzania does not recognise Mr Robert Mugabe as the legally elected President of Zimbabwe because last Friday’s presidential run-off, which was boycotted by the opposition, was highly flawed, Tanzania’s The Citizen qouted Foreign Affairs minister Bernard Membe as saying yesterday.
Addressing a press conference in Dar es Salaam, Membe said the just ended African Union [...]
Over 1 500 MDC activists, including 20 MPs and parliamentary candidates, across the country are in police custody following a massive State-sponsored crackdown against the MDC.
The MDC supporters and members have been arrested on charges of being involved in political violence whilst most MPs are being accused of trumped-up charges of inciting political violence.
The arrests [...]
Yahya Jammeh the President of Gambia who took control of the country in military coup in 1994 has endorsed Mugabe’s discredited re-election.
The Botswana government has sealed off its Botswana-Zimbabwe border. Botswana Defence Forces have been deployed allegedly with heavy artillery, along the long boarder between the two neighbors.
Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has said that the African Union must not recognize the outcome of the June 27th elections in Zimbabwe and declare the results unacceptable.
According to a government statement Sirleaf made the comments at the closed door Session of the African Union (AU) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, when she made her [...]
Zambian’s Vice-President and current acting president Rupiah Bwezani Banda (born 1937) was born in Gwanda, Zimbabwe.
The MDC faction led Arther Mutambara is contemplating further action against its former Spokesman Gabriel Chaibva over comments he made to the state controlled The Herald,the faction deputy spokesman Renson Gasela has confirmed.
“Yes the party is going to take further action against Chiabva,and we have a disciplinary process in place”said Gasela
Gasela said Chaibva’s comments [...]
Naison Nemadziva, the MDC MP for Buhera South in Manicaland province who was abducted at gunpoint on Monday, 30 2008 by a group of armed men in army uniforms at the Mutare High Court is feared dead.
His whereabouts are unknown, and the MDC has been making frantic efforts to locate him.
Nemadziva had gone to [...]