African leaders refuse to recognize Mugabe

  1. Posted on Friday 4 July 2008 - 11:50
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    Munyaradzi Mugadza, AfricaNews Reporter in Harare, Zimbabwe
    Most countries in Africa have declined to recognize President Mugabe as the leader of Zimbabwe after he was declared winner in the one man presidential run off last Friday.
    Robert Mugabe rally, photo by Daniel Sibanda
    Botswana became the first African country to publicly declare that it will not recognize Mugabe as president of Zimbabwe and called for the African Union to take sterner action against the incumbent leader.

    Botswana vice president Mompati Merafhe said during the AU summit in Egypt that representatives of the current government in Zimbabwe should be excluded from attending SADC and African Union meetings.

    Vice president Mompati Merafhe said his country “does not confer legitimacy on the government of President Mugabe”.

    Speaking in Egypt at the AU summit, first female president in Africa and Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf joined other African leaders in condemning Mugabe and discrediting him as a legal president of Zimbabwe.

    President Johnson said the African Union must not recognize the outcome of the June 27th elections in Zimbabwe and declare the results unacceptable. Johnson added that the western countries should work hand in glove with SADC to find a long lasting resolution to the Zimbabwean crisis.

    However Rwandan president also opened floodgates of criticism against Mugabe and said Rwanda will not treat Mugabe as a democratically elected leader of Zimbabwe.

    President Kagame said things went wrong on June 27 adding that it was now difficult to determine who the winner is. However, Kagame said a transitional government should be put in place to harness the political and economic problems facing Zimbabwe.

    But at a press conference on Wednesday at his residence, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai refused the idea of a government of national unity saying it does not address the real problems facing the country.

    Instead, Tsvangirai said a temporary transitional government should be established while the country prepares for another free and fair election in twelve to eighteen months.

    The opposition MDC pulled out of the elections after a growing concern of political violence against its violence but the ruling Zanu PF declared that the elections would go as scheduled.

    The presidential election results were announced only a day after the polling day as compared to the March 29 elections were the results were announced after five because Morgan Tsvangirai had outplayed Mugabe.

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