Why Africa Continues To Suffer

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe gives a speech in Harare in February 2009. Mugabe has lashed out at Western sanctions against him, condemning "bloody whites" for meddling in Zimbabwe's affairs, on the eve of a landmark visit by an EU delegation. (AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)

African Leaders Embrace Mugabe At SADC Summit -- Christian Science Monitor

The group's soft approach to Zimbabwe's president disappoints many, but some say it may be more effective in engaging him.

Johannesburg, South Africa - If Zimbabweans expected their country's neighbors to come out strongly against the repressive behavior of their president, Robert Mugabe, at a meeting of regional leaders in Kinshasa this week, then they were sorely mistaken.

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My Comment: This pathetic old racist symbolizes what is so wrong with Africa. The reason why neighboring leaders do not condemn him (with rare exceptions), is that they relate to his ideology and politics. As long as they this type of thinking continues to persist .... Africa will always be exploited by others (in today's world that is China), poor, and in perpetual tribal conflict.