Nanatsu no Tsuki
23-11-2008, 03:18
News on a serious subject clearly skipping something for pure sensationalism?
http://news.aol.com/article/carter-refused-entrance-to-zimbabwe/240206?cid=12
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Nov. 22) - Zimbabwe has refused to let Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter and a South African human rights advocate visit the impoverished country for a humanitarian mission, the three said Saturday.
The former U.N. secretary-general, the ex-U.S. president and rights advocate Graca Machel had planned to assess the southern African country's needs. They are members of The Elders, a group formed by former South African President Nelson Mandela to foster peace and tackle world conflicts. Annan said no official reason had been given for the refusal, but Zimbabwe's state-run Herald newspaper reported that the group had been asked to "come at a later date" to accommodate the crop-planting season. It quoted an unnamed source as saying they were seen as antagonistic toward Zimbabwe's government.
Zimbabweans are suffering from disease and hunger while political crisis over a power-sharing government occupies its politicians. A current cholera outbreak has killed nearly 300 people in Zimbabwe, the United Nations said.
But the three were told Friday night by former South African President Thabo Mbeki, who is mediating the political crisis, that efforts to secure travel visas for the a two-day trip had failed.
"We are very disappointed that the government of Zimbabwe would not permit us to come in, would not cooperate," former U.S. President Carter said at a news conference in Johannesburg.
It was the first time the 2002 Nobel Peace laureate has been denied permission to carry out a mission in any country, he said.
Machel, a rights advocate for women and children who is married to Mandela, said she was denied a visa to visit Zimbabwe in July when she had planned to lead a women's delegation.
Government officials in Harare could not immediately be reached for comment Saturday.
Not only Jimmy Carter, ex President of the US was denied entrance into the country, but also Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of the United Nations and Ms. Graca Machel, wife of Nelson Mandela.
In any case, the reason for this thread is, would the UN be able to mediate and help resolve the Zimbabwe crisis?
Could the case of Zimbabwe's fallen economy and inflation be a presage to what could happen to the rest of the world's economy in the next decade or so?
And what's more, regarding Zimbabwe's government, will it reform this cluster-fuck they've become and in time, rescue it's people from hunger, cholera and the civil war it may face (if it's not already happening)?
http://news.aol.com/article/carter-refused-entrance-to-zimbabwe/240206?cid=12
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Nov. 22) - Zimbabwe has refused to let Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter and a South African human rights advocate visit the impoverished country for a humanitarian mission, the three said Saturday.
The former U.N. secretary-general, the ex-U.S. president and rights advocate Graca Machel had planned to assess the southern African country's needs. They are members of The Elders, a group formed by former South African President Nelson Mandela to foster peace and tackle world conflicts. Annan said no official reason had been given for the refusal, but Zimbabwe's state-run Herald newspaper reported that the group had been asked to "come at a later date" to accommodate the crop-planting season. It quoted an unnamed source as saying they were seen as antagonistic toward Zimbabwe's government.
Zimbabweans are suffering from disease and hunger while political crisis over a power-sharing government occupies its politicians. A current cholera outbreak has killed nearly 300 people in Zimbabwe, the United Nations said.
But the three were told Friday night by former South African President Thabo Mbeki, who is mediating the political crisis, that efforts to secure travel visas for the a two-day trip had failed.
"We are very disappointed that the government of Zimbabwe would not permit us to come in, would not cooperate," former U.S. President Carter said at a news conference in Johannesburg.
It was the first time the 2002 Nobel Peace laureate has been denied permission to carry out a mission in any country, he said.
Machel, a rights advocate for women and children who is married to Mandela, said she was denied a visa to visit Zimbabwe in July when she had planned to lead a women's delegation.
Government officials in Harare could not immediately be reached for comment Saturday.
Not only Jimmy Carter, ex President of the US was denied entrance into the country, but also Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of the United Nations and Ms. Graca Machel, wife of Nelson Mandela.
In any case, the reason for this thread is, would the UN be able to mediate and help resolve the Zimbabwe crisis?
Could the case of Zimbabwe's fallen economy and inflation be a presage to what could happen to the rest of the world's economy in the next decade or so?
And what's more, regarding Zimbabwe's government, will it reform this cluster-fuck they've become and in time, rescue it's people from hunger, cholera and the civil war it may face (if it's not already happening)?