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I stayed up last night to watch live the speech by President Mugabe at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York. When I was a boy, we would walk for miles to go and listen to Mugabe. In those days, he was eloquent, sharp and promising.
Former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, says an estimated 50 billion dollars is exported from Africa illegally every year. Mbeki made the statement in Johannesburg at the inauguration of a UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) investigative panel.
Chinese friendship and relationship with Zimbabwe is unfortunately tethered and seen through the old prism of stale ideological ties in a common struggle against a Western imperial world. This revolutionary tawdry and fawny narrative misses the trade and investment imperative writes Dr Raymond Chamba.
In a week dominated by events in Libya where Muammar Gaddafi is losing his 42-year-old grip on the levers of power, it is pertinent that we consider the implications for the African continent and its people.