Zimbabwe

The Pan-African Parliament was very clear in its condemnation of the one-man show.

The youngest female victim is a 15-year-old girl who was stripped naked together with her pregnant mother forced to lie down and beaten on the breasts and buttocks. Many women including the old have been forced to strip naked and beaten on the breasts and buttocks.

Anyone who under the given circumstances would blame Tsvangirai for his withdrawal would not only be carelessly naïve, but either Machiavellian or hypocritical to the extreme.

I am not sure that this Donor-driven Pan Africanism is desirable or sustainable. But I am very certain that long after donor priorities have changed and their mercenary grantees retreat from Addis, there will still be Africans engaged with the AU because it is politically important to do so.

The PAP also condemned remarks by President Mugabe that the country would go to war if the opposition won the run-off.