Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says the African Union, backed by the United Nations, should lead a transitional process in the country.
President Robert Mugabe has ”declared war” in Zimbabwe, said opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday from inside the Dutch embassy in Harare.
Leaders will hold an meeting in Swaziland on Wednesday to discuss the crisis in Zimbabwe but key negotiator President Thabo Mbeki will not attend.
Southern African leaders will hold an emergency meeting in Swaziland’s capital, Mbabane, on Wednesday to discuss the crisis in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday defied mounting pressure to call off Friday’s vote, saying he had a legal obligation to go ahead.
Zimbabwe’s Morgan Tsvangirai, who has pulled out of a presidential run-off election because of violence, sought refuge overnight in the Dutch embassy.
The African Union (AU) on Monday joined a chorus of concern and dismay over the withdrawal of Zimbabwe’s opposition from a presidential run-off.
A South African mediation team was in Zimbabwe on Saturday as part of efforts to resolve the country’s political crisis.
Civil society bodies on Thursday urged the Southern African Development Community governments to impose a moratorium on the supply of arms to Zimbabwe.
The vote recount in a number of constituencies in Zimbabwe following March 29 elections is futile because ballot boxes have been tampered with, a South African member of the Southern African Development Community observer team said on Monday.
The situation in Zimbabwe is dire. The world has known this for quite some time, and it’s become even more apparent since the March 29 elections in that country.
Zimbabwe’s opposition slammed the ”deafening silence” on Tuesday of Africa in the aftermath of the country’s elections, warning of blood on the streets unless pressure is brought to bear on Robert Mugabe. Meanwhile, party lawyers argued at the High Court for an immediate announcement of the result of the presidential poll.
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/ 31 January 2008
Malawi finally has to face up to the dilemma of choosing between being a member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) or to stick with the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) if it is to continue receiving funding from the European Union.
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/ 15 November 2007
A white Zimbabwean farmer is set to go to court in Namibia next week over attempts by the Zimbabwean government to seize his land, the first case to be heard by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) tribunal. William Michael Campbell (75) faces criminal charges in Zimbabwe for failing to vacate his farm.
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/ 24 September 2007
Southern African nations on Monday lined up behind Robert Mugabe in a row over whether the Zimbabwean President would be invited to a European Union-Africa summit in December, saying they would boycott the event if he was banned. The meeting in Lisbon would be the first in seven years.
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/ 5 September 2007
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame said on Wednesday that his country was no longer interested in joining the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in order to avoid ”overlapping” roles with other blocs. ”As a country we need to rationalise on which organisations to join in order to avoid overlaps,” he told journalists.