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...dream of a "United States of Africa" - with himself as President - was upstaged by the A.U.'s formation, Gaddafi was also dismayed at another recent bit of scene stealing: the launch of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), an economic initiative led by South Africa's Thabo Mbeki and other African leaders. Only months ago, Gaddafi was dismissing NEPAD as an exercise in neocolonialism. But a visit by Mbeki to Tripoli before the Durban summit brought the Libyan leader back on board, and last week he was even invited to join an expanded NEPAD implementation committee. Still, Gaddafi...
...recognition of past failures, its ownership by Africans themselves and, critically, its timing in the wake of Sept 11. NEPAD's proponents recognize that failure would, at this stage, be more damaging had nothing been attempted. But its success could bring unparalleled benefit. As South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki has noted, "It would be an extraordinary thing to be party to a process which turned the continent around and defined Africans in a radically different way ? to [that] which history has defined them over the past 500 years. This would be worth anything." African leaders had expected a greater...
...nation Commonwealth's punitive suspension of Zimbabwe is unlikely to force any dramatic changes. Mugabe's Minister of State for Information, Jonathan Moyo, described it as "meaningless." For Mugabe, the Common-wealth move - recommended by South Africa's Thabo Mbeki, Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo and Australia's John Howard - conveniently averted the possibility of further sanctions from Commonwealth members such as Britain, Canada and Australia. The European Union and the United States have drawn up "smart" sanctions, which would include a travel ban on Mugabe and senior members of his ZANU-PF party and a freeze on their assets abroad...
Nowhere is there greater concern about the crisis in Zimbabwe than in the one country that, by itself, has the means to make or break Robert Mugabe: neighboring South Africa. But President Thabo Mbeki doesn't yet appear ready to pull the plug on the man who's giving him so many sleepless nights...
President Thabo Mbeki told the World Economic Forum in New York that South Africa has "the most comprehensive AIDS program in the world." Unfortunately, says Achmat, a veteran A.N.C. supporter and anti-apartheid activist in his youth, in maternity and pediatric wards the death toll says otherwise...