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...ruled Zimbabwe since overthrowing the racist white Rhodesian government in 1980. At his inauguration speech last month, Mugabe unexpectedly promised talks with the opposition on sharing power. Last week, Mugabe met Tsvangirai in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, and agreed to begin talks mediated by South African President Thabo Mbeki. Those discussions began last week in Pretoria, with some suggesting that an agreement was possible within two weeks...
...Zimbabwe Rivals Agree to Talk After months of violence following a contested presidential election, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe met on July 21 and agreed to assign representatives to power-sharing negotiations. The meeting was a victory of sorts for South African President Thabo Mbeki, who had previously been criticized for his passive role as the conflict's designated mediator. Yet wary Western nations, suspicious of Mugabe's vocal and repeated vows to maintain power, nonetheless toughened sanctions against the President and many of his senior advisers...
...Liberia and will eventually see in Sudan - who need to be convinced that the benefits of ridding their societies of global villains exceed the costs. Second, that will is more likely to be created by concentrated regional action than by generic international pressure. It was African leaders like Thabo Mbeki and Olesegun Obasanjo who acceded to Liberia's demand to put Taylor behind bars, and it was the European Union that used its financial and political leverage to sway the Serbian government...
...could see people looking at their notes, thinking, Uh-oh, I can't read this official speech, I will look stupid," says an ICC official who was at the meeting. And then, to everyone's surprise, South Africa, which up until then under the direction of President Thabo Mbeki had accommodated Khartoum (much as they are accommodating Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe today), criticized Sudan and the Security Council's acquiescence to Khartoum. Panama and Croatia joined in. The exuberant speeches caught people short...
...were a prohibited alien in South Africa and Rhodesia for 30 years for speaking out against apartheid and white rule. What do you think of Robert Mugabe? He's a monstrous little terror. Mbeki from South Africa supports him and a lot of the other black leaders have only just decided that he's bad. They don't like to criticize one of their own. Mugabe has created a caste, a layer of people just like himself who are corrupt and crooked. It's not a question of just getting rid of Mugabe and everything will be alright because...