Africa
7 Peacekeepers Killed, UN Still Waits To Do Nada
It’s another wonderful day in the UN World.
200 gunman riding on horse and in SUV ambushed a joint UN-African Union force in Sudan’s genocide plagued region of Darfur, killing seven and wounding twenty-two on Tuesday UN officials said.
Oh yeah, five Rwandan soldiers and two police officers were also killed.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s office said they [...]
Ben Affleck Is Shining The Light On Congo
Since George Clooney’s got Darfur, Madonna has Malawi, and Oprah’s claimed the school girls of South Africa, it only makes sense that Ben Affleck should represent the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Remind me why we have the UN again?
The Oscar-winning actor turned activist has visited the country three times in the past year and traveled to refugee camps, [...]
Quote of the Dumb
“I thought we are long past the age where we could consider pictures as not lying. It’s very, very easy for anyone to stage-manage a demonstration and a violent one at that.”
Asked about images of burned bodies, he responded, “We have not burned bodies. We have dead bodies of war veterans.”
-George Charamba, a Mugabe spokesman [...]
When Gangsters Get Political
In addition to starving his people and denying them democracy, Robert Mugabe and his army of thugs are now torturing them too.
Reports of Human Rights violations accompanied by graphic images have begun to flood from all over Zimbabwe - where many were forced to vote in the Mugabe Election today.
Many of the injured victims being treated in a Harare private hospital have refused to [...]
Free At Last
Tendai Biti has been released on bail today. HURRAY!
Biti had been charged with so-called treason which carries a death sentence.
To give you a glimpse as to just how bad the Zimbabwean inflation is: his bail was set at $1 Trillion Zimbabwean dollars aka $100 USD.
In an interview with the AP, Biti said: “Some people stay [...]
F The UN! The Queen Takes Action
While the UN continues to do what they do best - NOTHING- Queen Elizabeth II has stripped Robert Mugabe of the honorary British knighthood he was awarded in 1994.
HOLLAR!
A Foreign Office Spokesperson says:
“This action has been taken as a mark of revulsion at the abuse of human rights and abject disregard for the democratic process in Zimbabwe over [...]
Words From The World To Zimbabwe’s Thug
“The government of Zimbabwe and its thugs must stop the violence now.” ~ The White House
“If Mugabe thinks this finishes it, he’s in for a big surprise. He has united the world against him.” ~ Mark Malloch Brown, the foreign office minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, told the Guardian.
“This man, and I am speaking [...]
UN Demands Sudan To Cooperate Or They’ll Keep Taking No Action
The UN Security Council is demanding Sudan cooperate with the International Criminal Court in bringing Darfur war crimes suspects to justice.
Take # 3475894758934759387
“The council urges the government of Sudan and all other parties to the conflict in Darfur to cooperate fully with the court … in order to put an end to impunity for the [...]
Mugabe’s Ready To Fight
President Dictator Robert Mugabe vowed today that the Movement for Democratic Change would never rule Zimbabwe despite election wins.
“We shall never, never accept anything that smells of a delivered parcel of what they call the MDC … that is not going to happen. We are prepared to fight for it if we lose it in the [...]
Hot Commodity
Zimbabwe’s on it’s way to topping the U.S. as the #1 Nation of Incarceration with the way they’ve been arresting opposition leaders left and right.
Here 24hrs in Zimbabwe For Ya:
First they tossed Tendai Bidi in the slammer
Then they arrest Morgan Tsvangirai
They release Morgan Tsvangirai
They re-arrest Morgan Tsvangirai and take 20 more with them
They re- release Morgan Tsvangirai
We [...]
