Lloyd - Instablogs
Aug 1 2009
Monitors from the Kimberley Process, the international watchdog set up to monitor the trade, made the recommendation to the scheme’s bosses after visiting the country earlier this month. They focused on the Marange diamond fields in eastern...
Mar 8 2008
Britain, continental countries and others critical of Mr Mugabe will be banned from sending monitors to oversee the freedom and fairness of the poll. Sudan and Libya have been chosen “on the basis of objectivity and impartiality in their relationship...
Mar 8 2008
One of Zimbabwe’s leading human rights campaigners has issued the world with a startling reminder of the horrific abuse and torture being suffered under Robert Mugabe’s regime ahead of the country’s elections in three weeks’...
Mar 8 2008
Were it not for an accident of history, Robert Mugabe might now be a retired schoolteacher living out his dotage in peaceful Ghana. In the summer of 1960 when the first African National Congress – the one set up in what was then Rhodesia – was...