- Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community by Christopher5 http://christopher5.instablogs.com/ - Latest Popular Stories powered by Instablogs Community. http://www.instablogs.com/site-img/insta-slogo.gif Instablogs Community http://christopher5.instablogs.com/ en-us Instascript 2.0 http://www.instablogs.com Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:07:34 +0000 A Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe: Still Slow in Coming http://christopher5.instablogs.com/entry/a-post-mugabe-zimbabwe-still-slow-in-coming/ http://christopher5.instablogs.com/entry/a-post-mugabe-zimbabwe-still-slow-in-coming/ Christopher

For years, much of the debate over Zimbabwe has been preoccupied with how much, and how publicly, to criticize its despotic longtime leader Robert Mugabe. In the past, the West routinely harangued the ailing 85-year-old dictator, a former...

]]> For years, much of the debate over Zimbabwe has been preoccupied with how much, and how publicly, to criticize its despotic longtime leader Robert Mugabe. In the past, the West routinely harangued the ailing 85-year-old dictator, a former liberation hero who has ruled for 29 years. Western capitals and human rights groups have urged Africa to do the same, believing that the continent needed to recognize its own problems and sort them out. A few African leaders, like those in Botswana and Uganda, obliged.

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The fight against corruption in Africa’s most pivotal nations is faltering as public agencies investigating wrongdoing by powerful politicians have been undermined or disbanded and officials leading the charge have been dismissed, subjected to...

]]> The fight against corruption in Africa’s most pivotal nations is faltering as public agencies investigating wrongdoing by powerful politicians have been undermined or disbanded and officials leading the charge have been dismissed, subjected to death threats and driven into exile.

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