CHINA has indicated its unwillingness to support a United States call for a UN arms embargo for Zimbabwe.US plans to introduce discussions this week at the UN Security Council which include both an arms embargo and extension of travel bans on President Robert Mugabe's government....
According to reports from Beijing China -- one of the five veto-wielding permanent members of the UN Security Council along with Russia, the United States, Britain and France - did not show enthusiasm for an arms embargo and could use its veto power to block a resolution on Zimbabwe.
"The most pressing task now is to stabilize the situation in Zimbabwe," said Yang, the Chinese foreign minister....
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well, if China continues to sell them arms, the situation will "stablize" because the terror will get worse.
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The issue of how the international community reacts to Mugabe is so important right now. World leaders, especially other African leaders, need to remove their support of Mugabe and speak out against him. There's a new petition to make world leaders act against Mugabe's dictatorship. If you want to sign it, here's the link: http://go.care2.com/15560399
Hi there
My name is Codrin Arsene, I am a young Africanist doing research at the University of Chicago, who has recently launched an African portal on political affairs. My website is designed to offer visitors daily analysis of the most important events, provide them with the most recent video news, daily updates of the most significant breaking news on the continent, with blog news and also a short feed of news explored somewhat in detail, on the right column. My primary area of interest is Chinese investment in Africa but I write on various African political events. The mission of this portal is to create the largest database of African and Africa-related blogs. By the end of the summer I hope to create different feed reads that will pile blog news from different social areas from African culture, Africa and technological advancements, African politics, travel to Africa and other similar resources. These feeds with compliment the current web platform that is mainly focused on political events. It will allow users to subscribe to these feeds and receive all the blog entries they want from a particular field of interest. I have also added you to my blogroll, followed your blog progress and, at times, I have listed your main stories in the Blog news, linking our blogs. As you will see the linkage fully respects the journalistic deontology listing the exact title and source. Since the blogroll is becoming bigger and bigger you will find that I might list fewer stories from your blog, only those which are of great importance for a particular day (I’m also limited by Google which only allows me to list 10 stories in the News section).
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