Sunday, July 03, 2005

Zimbabwe week-end

James Morris said the WFP would help distribute food, but only if it did not have interference from the government.
"More than four million people are at risk in Zimbabwe

That will be difficult as the genocidal maniac is bent on exterminating the opposition and return to a rural hand-to-mouth economy (Pol Pot anyone?).

Britain's ambassador to the UN, Emyr Jones-Parry, said the government was to blame for many of the problems facing Zimbabwe. "It's important to realise that this particular crisis has been caused by the Zimbabwean government," he said. "It is man-made and not a natural phenomenon. The economic collapse in Zimbabwe is the result of bad policies and bad governance."

No doubt about it, but not enough people to say it.

Harare - A special United Nations envoy sent to investigate Zimbabwe's controversial campaign of shack demolitions praised President Robert Mugabe's government for its "vision", the state-run Herald newspaper claimed Friday.

A rag if there ever was one. Ms Tibaijuka, the special United Nations envoy, was quoted by The Herald saying what Mugabe's ministers told her!

"Her listening to the statements made by the ministers should in no way be seen as her endorsing the government's policy," Dujarric said. "UN Habitat, the agency that she heads ..., has clearly stated that forced eviction is one of the main barriers to the significant improvement of slum dwellers."

Last and least, the inevitable clown, speaking out of context:

But Tanzania's deputy U.N. ambassador, Tuvako Nathaniel Manogi, said too many people were shedding "crocodile years" as he had watched repeated pleas for food assistance go unheeded in his country, which is flooded with refugees.

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