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Africa in Crisis- The Merged Superthread

Lets send an LRP detachement to support anti-piracy operations. They could also conduct overland ISR operations ISO a multinational force.

Walt ?

;D
 
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Ransom demand may soon come for journalist: group

Monday, August 25, 2008 | 10:56 PM                                                              CTV.ca News Staff

There are indications that a Somali militant group believed to be holding two journalists, including a Canadian, may soon make a ransom demand, says a journalism organization official.

Tom Rhodes, Africa co-ordinator for the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, told CTV.ca on Monday that his sources say the militants are looking for a safe house to hold Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan.

Once they have found such a place, it is believed they will make a formal ransom demand, he said.

But "no one really knows what's going on," Rhodes glumly added.

Lindhout, 27, is originally from Red Deer, Alta. Brennan, 37, is from Australia.

On Saturday, the two freelancers had travelled south of Mogadishu to a camp for people displaced by the fighting in Somalia's capital city.

Gunmen stopped and snatched them, along with their Somali translator and driver. Hotel staff became worried when they didn't return at their scheduled time.

The National Union of Somali Journalists said Sunday that the attack appeared to be premeditated.

Rhodes said media reports quoted one Somali Islamist leader saying his group had nothing to do with the abduction.

Background

The Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) has been battling for control of the country with the Ethiopia-backed transitional government.

However, the country has been without an effective government since 1991, although its troubles extend back into the 1970s. Canada had a "peacemaking" force in Somalia. But it became embroiled in scandal following the early 1993 torture and killing of a Somali citizen trying to steal from Canada's military base at Belet Huen.

The U.S. pulled its forces out of Somalia within six months of the famous October 1993 Battle of Mogadishu -- an incident that eventually formed the basis for the book and movie "Black Hawk Down." All United Nations peacekeepers pulled out by 1995.

Since them, Somalia has faced more fighting, economic collapse and a humanitarian crisis. Kidnappings, along with acts of piracy on the high seas off Somalia's coastline, are very commonplace.

Rhodes said there is no effective police force in Somalia, and the prospect of any other type of rescue is unlikely (the Battle of Mogadishu resulted from a botched attempt to snatch leaders of an anti-U.S. warlord).

He noted that Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said the situation is incredibly delicate.

If a rescue isn't an option, that leaves a paying a ransom, "which of course perpetuates the problem," he said.

Executions rare

"On a positive note, they very, very rarely execute people they abduct," Rhodes said of the Somali militias. "(They're) usually held for just a week at a time before they're released."

French journalist Gwen Le Gouil was grabbed in the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland in December 2007. His kidnappers asked for a US$70,000 ransom, but negotiators secured his release without a ransom being paid, according to news reports.

Rhodes said another factor that helps Lindhout and Brennan is that the UIC wants to take control of the country. As a result, it wants to look legitimate in the world's eyes.

"So arbitrary killings aren't going to help their cause," he said.

Lindhout and Brennan are also helped by the fact they are foreigners, he said.

Somalia has been rated as the second-most dangerous country for journalists after Iraq. Former Ottawa resident Ali Iman Sharmarke was one of at least eight killed there in 2007. He returned to his homeland in 1999 to start a media company. A remote-detonated bomb blew up his vehicle about a year ago as he returned from the funeral of a murdered Somali journalist.
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Despite several sarcastic comments that come to mind ie send Taliban Jack and Sacha bin Laden to reason with them - in all seriousness what about contracting Blackwater or a similiar agency to go in?  Wasn't there a situation where a South African mercenary outfit called Executive Outcomes sorted out an African country (Liberia or Sierra Leone)?
 
greentoblue said:
Despite several sarcastic comments that come to mind ie send Taliban Jack and Sacha bin Laden to reason with them - in all seriousness what about contracting Blackwater or a similiar agency to go in?  Wasn't there a situation where a South African mercenary outfit called Executive Outcomes sorted out an African country (Liberia or Sierra Leone)?
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The days of Mike Hoare and Wild Geese are pretty much over.
 
OldSolduer said:
I can see this nation becoming host to an Al Qaeda style group.
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Too late.  There is already a radical Islamic group running amok in Somalia, with strong Al Qeada ties.
 
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Canadian journalist has not been harmed by Somali captors: reporters' group

26/08/2008 10:48:00 PM

Nelson Wyatt, THE CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL - A freelance Canadian journalist who was kidnapped with an Australian and a Somali colleague has not been harmed by her captors, says an organization that defends media freedom.


The Paris office of Reporters Without Borders has been able to obtain details about the condition of Amanda Lindhout from the National Union of Somali Journalists, said Dennis Trudeau, spokesman for Reporters Without Borders in Montreal.

"What we have been able to glean is that the journalists - the Canadian, the Australian and the Somali - are unharmed, they have their clothes, they're getting food regularly and they may even have access to satellite TV," Trudeau told The Canadian Press late Tuesday.

The group is believed to be in an area about 80 kilometres outside of Mogadishu, Somalia's capital.

"I can't say more than that. You can understand that the group may be afraid of a possible armed mission to rescue the journalists."

Lindhout, a freelance television and print reporter from Sylvan Lake, Alta., is usually based in Baghdad. She had previously reported from Afghanistan, Iraq and other parts of Africa. She also wrote a weekly column for the Red Deer Advocate from Iraq and Africa.

A friend has described her as courageous and said she had been detained by warriors in Iraq while working for a television station and had been robbed at gunpoint in Africa.

Lindhout, who is working for French TV station France 24, arrived in Somalia on Aug. 20.

Lindhout, Australian Nigel Brennan, and Somali reporter Abdifatah Mohammed Elmi, who served as their photographer and translator, were grabbed on Saturday. Workers at their hotel raised the alarm when they noticed the journalists had not returned from their outing.

Journalists and humanitarian workers are frequently abducted for ransom in Somalia, one of the world's poorest and most violence-torn countries.

Saturday's reported abduction came during a period of especially heavy fighting in Somalia, including the capture of Kismayo, Somali's third-largest city, by Islamic insurgents.

Trudeau said no ransom demand has been made yet.

"But the way things have gone in Somalia, from what we know and from what we've seen in the past, that's not necessarily a bad thing, that there's been no demand yet.

"In the case of some Italian aid workers kidnapped a while ago in Somalia, it took seven to 10 days before any contact was made. So you see we're still early on."

Trudeau said the kidnappers may be from the Air clan, a dissident part of one of the Somali clans.

"Somalia is a dangerous place. There are a lot of various factions and many of them have guns. It's a confusing place."

Trudeau said before the group was kidnapped, they had left Mogadishu to visit a refugee camp about 20 or 30 kilometres away. They were waylaid on their way back by a number of armed men.

Two bodyguards who were accompanying the group were not taken but Trudeau said he had no idea if they were somehow involved in the kidnapping.

Trudeau acknowledged the kidnapping could be about money, given the case of the Italian aid workers. He said it is his understanding that when negotiations eventually started in that case, there was a demand for funds and a ransom was paid.

"We are led to believe that it is not necessarily an Islamist organization," he said. "So chances are that, we hope that we'll see that there may be some kind of negotiations and demands for ransom rather than some kind of other outcome."
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Hijackers of Sudanese jetliner release all passengers: Libyan officials

Hijackers of a passenger jet travelling from Sudan's Darfur region released all passengers on Wednesday at a remote airstrip in Libya, but were still holding the aircraft's crew, Libyan aviation officials said.

27/08/2008 5:44:31 AM

CBC News

A group of about 10 hijackers commandeered the Boeing 737, which was carrying nearly 100 people, soon after it took off Tuesday from Nyala in the south of Darfur, a vast region where Sudan's government has been battling rebels since 2003.

The plane, which had been en route to the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, was diverted to a the Second World War-era airstrip in the Sahara desert oasis of Kufra.

The civil aviation official did not provide additional details and spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. Reuters also quoted an official as saying that all the passengers were freed.

Earlier, it was reported that the hijackers had refused to negotiate and were demanding enough fuel to fly to France. But the BBC reported that talks were still underway to free the remaining hostages.

A Libyan airport official said the hijackers were members of Darfur's rebel Sudan Liberation Movement, led by Abdul-Wahid Nour.

But a spokesman for the rebel group, Yahia Bolad, denied any involvement, saying the SLM has "no relation to this act."

Officials said the jet belongs to a private company, Sun Air, and was carrying 95 passengers - a mix of civilians and local Darfur officials - plus an unspecified number of crew members.

The politicians on board were members of the Darfur Transitional Authority, an interim government body responsible for implementing a peace agreement between rebel factions and Sudan's government, a security official at Nyala airport said.

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Rwanda to switch from French to English in schools
• Move seen as further snub to former colonial power
• Business needs a factor in dropping old influences
Chris McGreal, Africa correspondent The Guardian, Tuesday October 14 2008

The Rwandan government is to switch the country's entire education system from French to English in one of the most dramatic steps to date in its move away from Francophone influence.

Officially the change is to reposition Rwanda as a member of the East African Community, an organisation made up mostly of English-speaking countries such as neighbours Uganda and Tanzania.

However, the shift to education solely in English is part of a wholesale realignment away from French influence that includes applying to join the Commonwealth - if accepted Rwanda would be only the second member, after Mozambique, that has not been a British colony - and establishing a cricket board.

Underpinning the move is a long and bitter dispute with France born of its support for the Hutu regime that oversaw the 1994 genocide of 800,000 Tutsis, which has seen the French ambassador expelled and the closure of the French cultural centre, international school and radio station.

However, what amounts to an attempt to expel the French language too, consigning it to a few hours a week in schools and increasingly forcing it out of the workings of government, will be badly received in Paris where protection of the language is at the heart of what critics describe as the French obsession with maintaining influence in Africa and which led it to back the Hutu extremist government.

No timetable has been set to implement the policy, which will face a number of challenges, including finding sufficient teachers who speak English. The cabinet also decided that all public service workers will receive English instruction.

English was made an official language in Rwanda, alongside French and the indigenous Kinyarwanda, after the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) overthrew the Hutu regime and took power in 1994.

The RPF leadership, dominated by Tutsis raised in exile in Anglophone countries, generally speaks English and not French. Rwanda's minister of education, Daphrosa Gahakwa, grew up in Uganda where she took her O levels. She studied her PhD in genetic engineering at the University of East Anglia.

English has also become fashionable even among French-speaking young people in the cities, particularly Tutsis, as a means of rejecting Francophone influence and its association with the Hutu regime responsible for the genocide.

At present the first three years of primary school is in Kinyarwanda after which pupils may choose English or French. The French option is to be dropped.

Instruction at Kigali's elite Institute of Science and Technology is already in English and it is increasingly the language of instruction in the national university.

The drive towards English is in part financial. Close trading ties not only with other east African nations such as Uganda and Kenya but also with South Africa, which has provided investment for luxury hotels and shopping malls, have helped drive an economic boom in Rwanda.

The Rwandan trade and industry minister, Vincent Karega, told Kigali's New Times newspaper that the country is looking beyond the Francophone world.

"French is spoken only in France, some parts of west Africa, parts of Canada and Switzerland," he said. "English has emerged as a backbone for growth and development not only in the region but around the globe."

There is little doubt that a deep loathing of all things French is also an important factor for some of Rwanda's leaders.

The latest salvo against French influence comes weeks after the Rwandan government accused more than 30 French politicians, officials and military officers of complicity in the genocide, including the late president, François Mitterrand, and called for their prosecution.

A two-year investigation by an official commission alleged that French forces in Rwanda committed crimes against humanity and protected those who organised the genocide, helping them to flee the country and escape justice.

The Rwandan inquiry followed allegations by France's leading anti-terrorism judge, Jean-Louis Bruguière, that in effect accused Rwanda's Tutsi president, Paul Kagame, of bringing mass murder on his own people by allegedly ordering the 1994 assassination of the then president, Juvenal Habyarimana, which marked the start of the genocide.

The judge could not indict Kagame as head of state but he issued international arrest warrants for nine of his closest aides and advised the tribunal trying those behind the genocide to pursue Kagame.

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France's claim that Rwanda was a French-speaking nation was always somewhat disingenuous given that 80% of the population spoke only Kinyarwanda fluently. But there was no doubt about France's influence over the former Belgian colony.

It remains strong in other Francophone countries in Africa from the Democratic Republic of Congo to the west and central African nations where the national currencies are underpinned by French financial support.

French remains an important language of commerce and diplomacy in west and central Africa, so much so Ghana recently decided its officials should learn it so as not to be marginalised by the likes of Senegal.

There is little doubt English is encroaching on French influence, not only because it is the language of business in Europe but because of the economic power of South Africa.
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This is the latest move in the efforts in Rwanda to transition it into an English speaking country.  While such an exercise may be of benefit to that nation, the recent move by President Kagame to make Rwanda adopt cricket as the national sport may be more questionable. If he had spent his years in exile in Toronto, would there now be the Kigali Maple Leafs?
 
Mods, forgive me. The devil, and the Ottawa Senators, made me do it.

"If he had spent his years in exile in Toronto, would there now be the Kigali Maple Leafs"

They probably would have a better shot at the Stanley Cup than the original Make Believes.
 
Old Sweat said:
Mods, forgive me. The devil, and the Ottawa Senators, made me do it.

"If he had spent his years in exile in Toronto, would there now be the Kigali Maple Leafs"

They probably would have a better shot at the Stanley Cup than the original Make Believes.
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A response I was half expecting.  Now, was it the Ottawa Senators or just a Senator in Ottawa.
 
Blackadder1916 said:
This is the latest move in the efforts in Rwanda to transition it into an English speaking country.  While such an exercise may be of benefit to that nation, the recent move by President Kagame to make Rwanda adopt cricket as the national sport may be more questionable. If he had spent his years in exile in Toronto, would there now be the Kigali Maple Leafs?
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One line of action is derived from the other.  You cant seriously expect them to play cricket while speaking French do you? 

I think there's something in the game rulebook about players having to self-immolate themselves if they do that...   :evil:

 
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KILIMANYOKA, Congo (AP) - Rebels vowing to take Congo's eastern provincial capital of 600,000 people advanced toward Goma on Tuesday as Congolese troops and U.N. tanks retreated, while tens of thousands fled to a makeshift shelter.
The sudden influx tripled the size of the camp in Kibati in a matter of hours, said Ron Redmond, a spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency. A hundred refugees a day, mostly women and children, were also fleeing across the border into Uganda, that country's Red Cross said.

In Kibati, a few miles from the front line, young men also lobbed rocks Tuesday at three U.N. tanks with Uruguayan troops heading away from the battlefield.

"What are they doing? They are supposed to protect us," complained Jean-Paul Maombi, a 31-year-old nurse from Kibumba.

On Monday, peacekeepers fired into the air at one U.N. compound that came under a hail of rocks, and city leaders said three people were killed. Mobs hurled the stones to protest the U.N.'s failure to protect them from the rebels, despite having 17,000 peacekeepers in its Congo mission.

Renegade Gen. Laurent Nkunda has vowed to seize Goma, a lakeside city of 600,000 on the border with Rwanda in Central Africa.

Nkunda signed a cease-fire with the government in January, but defected because he said the government showed no interest in protecting his Tutsi people—a tiny minority of 3 percent in east Congo—from Rwandan Hutu militiamen who escaped to Congo after helping perpetrate Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Some half a million Rwandan Tutsis were slaughtered in that genocide.

But Nkunda's ambitions have expanded since he launched a fresh onslaught on Aug. 28—he now declares he will "liberate" all of Congo, a country the size of Western Europe with vast reserves of diamonds, gold and other resources. Congo's vast mineral wealth helped fuel back-to-back wars from 1997-2003.

More than 200,000 people have been forced from their homes in the last two months, the U.N. says, joining 1.2 million displaced in previous conflicts in the east. Outbreaks of cholera and diarrhea have killed dozens in camps, compounding the misery.

U.N. efforts to halt Nkunda's rebellion are complicated by the country's rugged terrain, dense tropical forests that roll over hills and mountains with few roads. U.N. provincial chief Hiroute Guebre Selassie told angry civil leaders on Monday that Nkunda's fighters also were using guerrilla tactics.

"We cannot use the helicopters to prevent them advancing, because they hide in the bush, they fight on many fronts, and they hide themselves among the population," she said. "(That) strategy makes it very difficult for us to master the situation."

On Monday, peacekeepers in attack helicopters fired at the rebels trying to stop them taking Kibumba, a village on the main road 30 miles north of Goma. But fleeing civilians say the fighters overran Kibumba anyway.

A U.N. helicopter gunship patrolled the sky Tuesday in Kilimanyoka, seven miles north of Goma. Rebel spokesman Bertrand Bisimwa said he expected the helicopters to soon attack their front line, which he said is within 12 miles of Goma.

The chief U.N. mandate is to protect the population. But since the peace deal it also is helping the Congolese army disarm and repatriate Hutu militiamen—by force if necessary.

Yet Bisimwa, the rebel spokesman, claimed Tuesday the Congolese army has abandoned dozens of its positions to Hutu militiamen.

"It's the Hutus who are on the front line and whom we are fighting, not the army," he said. U.N. peacekeepers "leave us no choice but to fight on."

Nkunda long has charged that Congolese soldiers fight alongside the militia of Hutus, an ethnic majority of about 40 percent in the region.

Some 800 Hutu militiamen have voluntarily returned to Rwanda, the U.N. says, but the fighters recruit and coerce Congolese Hutu children and young men into their ranks daily—far outnumbering those who have returned home.

Civil leaders led by Jason Luneno said if U.N. peacekeepers cannot halt the rebel advance, the peacekeepers should leave Congo and "the people will descend into the streets to demand the government resign."

Tensions also are high on the diplomatic front. Congo this week repeated charges that Rwanda's Tutsi-led government is sending troops across the border to reinforce Nkunda. Rwanda denies the charges and the U.N. says they are unfounded.

The U.N. refugee agency said a team under "tight security" was heading to the village of Kibati to prepare for an influx of refugees. Wailing babies and children with worried frowns were among the thousands there who had no idea where they were headed.

"What can we do? We have nothing," said Maombi.
 
Rice: 'It's well past time' for Mugabe to leave
Fri. Dec. 5 2008
The Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that it is "well past time" for Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to leave office as evidenced by the nation's calamitous cholera epidemic and health care crisis.

Rice said the country experienced "a sham election," followed by a sham sharing of power. Speaking in the Danish capital Friday, she said the current outbreak of cholera in the country should be a sign to the international community that it is time to stand up to Mugabe.

"If this is not evidence to the international community to stand up for what is right, I don't know what would be. And frankly the nations of the region have to do it," she said. The nations in southern Africa have the most to lose and need to take the lead, she said.

Zimbabwe declared a national emergency over a cholera epidemic and the collapse of its health care system, and state media reported Thursday the government is seeking more international help to pay for food and drugs to combat the crisis.

"It's well past time for Robert Mugabe to leave, that's now obvious," she said. "There has been a sham election, there was a sham power-sharing. We are now seeing the humanitarian toll."

Rice said "we are seeing not only the political and economic toll that is being taken on the people of Zimbabwe but the toll in the humanitarian dimension as the cholera epidemic has broken out. It is time for the international nations to push Mr. Mugabe out."

She said the United States "will always do anything and everything it can to help innocent people who are suffering. We are not going to deny assistance to people who are in need because of Mugabe."

The U.S. Agency for International Development has said it would provide an additional US$600,000 to help combat the cholera outbreak. This assistance is in addition to the $4 million water, sanitation, and hygiene emergency program USAID is already implementing in Zimbabwe.

The failure of the southern African nation's health care system is one of the most devastating effects of the country's overall economic collapse.

Facing the highest inflation in the world, Zimbabweans are struggling just to eat and find clean drinking water. The United Nations says the number of suspected cholera cases in Zimbabwe since August has climbed above 12,600, with 570 deaths, because of a lack of water treatment and broken sewage pipes. Besides shortages of food and other basics, even cash is scarce.

Cholera is an infectious intestinal disease that is contracted by consuming contaminated food or water. Its symptoms include severe diarrhea.

Rice's comments on Zimbabwe came during an appearance with Denmark's Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Rice is making a tour of various cities overseas as her tour in the job of secretary of state comes to a close.

Rice expressed "deep regret" for the deaths of two Danish soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan on Thursday, adding that nothing of value is won without sacrifice. "Afghanistan must never be allowed again to be a safe haven for terrorists," Rice said. She said a review being done by the Bush administration and its NATO allies of the mission in Afghanistan is nearly complete.

"It is under way. It is, very frankly, almost completed," she said. "It is being reviewed by the principals of the National Security Council and it is going to be discussed with our friends. And at that point I expect that some elements of it will be made public in some way."

Some have called for more troops in Afghanistan, a sentiment backed Friday by Danish leader Fogh Rasmussen.

"We have to make sure that the mission will be a success," he said. We must prevail and we need more troops."
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I'm sorry, why exactly is the rest of the world lending any appearance of legitimacy to this thug and his crooked friends?

Zimbabwe should be Serbia-ized.  Ostracize the nation diplomatically and then, as was done to Serbia (Kosovo) ignore it's sovereignty and move in with overwhelming force to establish the rule of law.

Ooh, threats to expel us!  :crybaby: I'm so underwhelmed :boring: 
 
Military doctors fight cholera crisis in Zimbabwe
6 Dec 2008
CTV.ca News Staff
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081206/zimbabwe_cholera_081206/20081206?hub=World

South Africa will deploy more military doctors to its northern border to help stem the tide of Zimbabwe's growing cholera epidemic, a spokesperson for South Africa's government has announced.

South Africa, the region's major power, will also send clean water and other aid to Zimbabwe, said Themba Maseko, in a sign that leaders fear the outbreak will spread beyond Zimbabwe's borders.

Cholera, a preventable intestinal disease, has killed nearly 600 people and infected almost 13,000 since August, according to United Nations estimates.

However, aid agencies believe many more infections and deaths have gone unrecorded, as patients may have fallen ill and died at home.

Cholera is contracted by consuming contaminated food or water, and symptoms include severe diarrhea.

The outbreak is largely blamed on Zimbabwe's crumbling health-care and water-treatment systems, which have languished under the autocratic rule of President Robert Mugabe.

On Thursday, Zimbabwe declared a national health emergency, according to an announcement issued by state media.

In addition to extra doctors and aid, South Africa also plans to send a fact-finding team to Zimbabwe on Monday. The team will issue a report to President Kgalema Motlanthe and his cabinet ministers before more assistance plans are announced, Maseko said.

"We will continue to work with the World Health Organization's representatives and other donor organizations to provide assistance to medical facilities in Zimbabwe in order to manage and reduce the influx of Zimbabweans into South Africa and other neighbouring countries," Maseko said.

Health officials in Mozambique and Botswana, which border Zimbabwe, are assessing the risk of the epidemic spreading into those countries.

The crisis has led the international community to call for Mugabe to step down.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice said Friday it was "well past time" for Mugabe to relinquish power.

The outbreak is an opportunity for the international community to put pressure on Mugable, Rice said, an effort that should be led by neighbouring southern African countries.

In a statement issued Friday, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the outbreak was "a further illustration of the misrule of Zimbabwe's rogue government."

On Thursday, Novel peace laureate Desmond Tutu called for African countries to use military force if necessary to oust Mugabe from office should he refuse to resign.

In an interview with the Dutch current affairs program Nova, Tutu, the retired Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, said Mugabe "is destroying a wonderful country...a country that used to be a bread basket...has now become a basket case itself needing help."

Former South African president Thabo Mbeki has been trying to improve Zimbabwe's fortunes through attempts to broker a power-sharing agreement between Mugabe and his main rival, Norman Tsvangirai.

So far, those negotiations have proved fruitless, while Mugabe blames western sanctions for his country's deterioration.
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