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LUSAKA (AFP) — Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has urged the British prime minister to continue speaking out against Zimbabwe until a solution is found to the country’s crises, media reported Sunday.
Mwanawasa, who heads the southern African regional bloc SADC, welcomed the pressure Gordon Brown was putting on Harare but expressed disappointment at his boycott of next weekend’s EU-Africa summit in Portugal, reports said.
The British premier has said he would not attend the meeting if Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is there.
“I have said the nation faces a lot of challenges. Now, he (Brown) shouldn’t get tired of speaking and he must continue until the harvest (of his efforts),” privately-owned The Sunday Post newspaper quoted Mwanawasa as saying.
“I appeal to Brown and the entire British nation that they should continue with their efforts until the situation in Zimbabwe has been resolved,” he was quoted as telling reporters on Saturday in Lusaka.
State-owned newspapers such as The Sunday Mail and The Sunday Times also reported the story. “Do not give up on Zimbabwe”, wrote the Mail’s headline.
Zimbabwe is currently in the throes of an economic crisis.
It has the world’s highest rate of inflation — about 8,000 percent — while four in every five people are unemployed and 80 percent of the population live below the poverty threshold.
Mwanawasa, who spoke as he was leaving for Germany, en route to Portugal for the summit, welcomed the fact that Brown has agreed to send a representative to the Lisbon meeting.
The Zambian leader, who heads the 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC), once likened the situation in neighbouring Zimbabwe to that of a ‘sinking titanic’ where citizens were jumping out to seek refuge in other countries.
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December 3, 2007 at 4:38 am
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December 3, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Somehow so western leaders have a belief that they are too important to be in the presence of less important ones.
A leader is a representative of the people no matter the group and Dr. Mwanawasa has been trying to pump that kind of sense in some of them.
Certain issues can only be resolved by dialogue, not remote access and some of these holier than thou leaders need to know that, kudos to the president on his stance – great leadership qualities there … thanks a trillion
December 3, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Zambia is on the path to greatness and Levy has something to do with that.
December 3, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Martin,
… Levy has been prudently been making all the right moves as he matures into a seasoned statesman.
I don’t want to spill the beans yet but my team is close to finishing the First African President of The Year Award matrix and he (Dr. Mwanawasa) is a top contender … thanks a trillion