You are currently browsing the archives for the month: December 2008.

December 11, 2008

A Worried Wishful Thinker

Mugabe, as quoted by the BBC this morning:
“I am happy we are being assisted by others and we have arrested cholera,” Mr Mugabe said in a speech, despite UN reports of a growing death toll. “Now that there is no cholera there is no case for war.”
Someone’s taking those military intervention rumours seriously, then. [...]

more...
December 8, 2008

Interesting Times

Events seem to be coming to something of a head at the moment, driven by the failure of the Zanu-PF government to do much about the current cholera outbreak that’s sweeping the country. First to speak out was Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who called for Mugabe to be ousted by force if necessary. [...]

more...