Amnesty International reports that five police officers raided the offices of the Zimbabwe Elections Support Network (ZESN) with a warrant authorizing a search for "subversive material likely to cause the overthrow of a constitutionally-elected government.” The ZESN chairperson and staff members are in hiding to evade arrest. Amnesty and the New York Times also report that MDC headquarters were once again raided, resulting in the arrest of 375, including people taking refuge from increasing violence by ZANU-PF and government actors. SABC writes that the MDC supporters, including “pregnant women and children,” were herded into government trucks and taken away. MDC Spokesman Nelson Chamisa pled, “We have a dictator in this country, we have a person who is so determined to murder all of us. He is a man who is prepared to slaughter all of us - his lust for power is far more than for the love for the country and the people of this country and the continent - Please we need help!”
In an unexpected move, U.S. Undersecretary of State Jendayi Frazer, who is currently in southern Africa to work on the
But as I said yesterday, just because the arms deal was signed last year does not mean the government of
In other news…
- Renewed violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo region of
- The UN is pissed off at the Joseph Kony: The Monitor (
- A bus explosion kills 10 in
- Human rights organizations launch “Justice for
(Apologies for the scant news brief—busy day, and I spent most of it so far thinking about
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The solution to the political and civil unrest in Africa is quite simple, ipods. Order like a billion ipod nanos, load'em full of fun music and videos and drop them from airplanes over Africa. They will have so much fun playing with the ipods that after a while they will forget what they were doing before the crazy music makers fell from the sky and live happily ever after. And since Sony is a major corporation and they are always looking to advertise and better their name I'm sure they would donate all the ipod nanos in the name of African peace!
It's genius I know so feel free to tell me how brilliant and amazing I am...
MarciP, you are both brilliant and amazing. I'll notify the Nobel Selection Committee.
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