What "unity"!?

[mahnmut]

Officials release 1st result in Zimbabwe election recount

Nearly four weeks after the unresolved presidential election, a state-run newspaper said Wednesday that a national unity government led by longtime leader Robert Mugabe could end Zimbabwe's deepening political and economic crisis.

In a prominently displayed editorial in the Herald, considered a government mouthpiece, columnist Dr. Obediah Mazombwe called a unity government "the most viable and safest way forward."

He said regional leaders, along with "the progressive international community," could bring together key players: Mugabe's party, the opposition, former colonial ruler Britain and the United States.

"The West, particularly the Anglo-American establishment, should stop insisting that President Mugabe and ZANU-PF cannot be part of a future prosperous Zimbabwe," Mazombwe said.

Comments

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

Here we go, another stolen election in Africa, after Kibaki...

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

"We'll have 'democracy' until we can't force enough people to vote for us, then we should look at an imposed unity government"

Makes me sick. What a megalomaniac. He could step down now and preserve his posterity as a revolutionary who saved the country, instead, he'll hang on to power by whatever means possible and destroy it.

so many questions.

[ramsesthesecond.livejournal.com]

Do you think that this is one of the last trials of Mugabe's party to keep their hope in remaining in power especially that last elections' results will throw Mugabe out of power?

speaking of which,, I heard in the news that the president of South Africa doesn't see a benefit of a weapons exporting banning to Zimbabwe. of course I know that the west is running for such a decision in the UN but what their reason is remains the unknown thing for me..
Do you think that Zimbabwe is danger to its neighbors?
I know that South Africa has the strongest army in the region.. but is Zimbabwe's army strong?
or maybe they call for such a decision to prevent Mugabe from using these weapons against his own people!! I mean like what happens here in Egypt but if that so, then they should prevent only light weapons not all weapons!!
does the country have any history of civil war? or is it near any one?

Sorry for asking too much but I read your entries about Zimbabwe and I feel really enlightened about the problems there especially that all media here ignores it and deal with it as secondary case as it is so far from Egypt.