Russia and China threaten democracy in Africa
AFRICA’s erstwhile liberators, Russia and the China, have turned into one of the greatest threats to democracy and peace on the continent in their fight for the control of strategic resources with the West.
In customary Cold War diplomatic-shoulder-rubbing fashion, the two economic giants recently used their veto power to [...]

One of the leading Zimbabwean online news dailies this week led with the harrowing story of what it says was the body of an MDC activist that had been found outside the capital Harare. The story was in order, complete with quotes and figures. The pitfall however was that the charred body pictured and captioned [...]

Relations between the two coutries have been cold for many years. In inter-ministerial committee notes seen by Investigativezim in 2006, the Zimbabwean foreign affairs ministry noted complaints by Botswana that “there had been no exchange of visits at the highest levels of leadership” between the two countries.

The picture of the charred body of a Movement for Democratic Change driver below was used by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to win the support of G8 countries in Britain’s campaign for sanctions against Zimbabwe’s key leaders. Even Russia, usually cold and callous in the face of such brutality, was won over after the [...]

VIOLENCE continues to take its toll on Zimbabwe’s civilian population… While the state and the opposition argue about the accuracy of figures, families are losing breadwinners and loved ones. The true toll of violence can never be measured in body counts. There is absolutely no political morality in sending bands of thugs to batter innocent [...]