State of disaster declared in drought-ridden Zimbabwe

[rooster59]

State of disaster declared in drought-ridden Zimbabwe




A severe drought has hit Zimbabwe, leading President Robert Mugabe to declare a state of disaster in most rural parts of the country.

The government says 26 percent of the population is in need of food aid.

It represents the worst drought in Zimbabwe in a quarter of a century.

The declaration of a state of disaster allows international donors to rapidly raise money to assist the country.

Eddie Row, Country Director of the World Food Programme Country Director

“By declaring this drought an emergency and providing clear evidence of the extent to which this is going to impact on the lives of people it puts Zimbabwe and the southern African region into a focus where donors and the international community would recognise that, yes, we have a major problem in our hands.”

Zimbabwe is said to have received below seventy-five percent of normal rains, while dam levels are at an average capacity of 51 percent.

Southern Africa is parched, with poor rains hitting crops. The drought in Zimbabwe is only expected to add to economic problems caused by a steep nine-year recession, which ended in 2008.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-01-06

[jaidam]

Let me guess, this drought and the starving population is the fault of the British?

[SgtRock]

Guess what Mr Mugabe.

You and your people fought long, hard and brutally for Independence. It has been a downward spiral ever since.

Deal with it.

[i claudius]

Many many times over the years i have said that as drought and famine get worse , the migrants we see now coming to the west will be as nothing when the rest of them come to avoid starvation , the end result will be the west keeping them out with the army , its not going to be nice for our kids , as for Mugabee ,well him and his cronies destroyed the country , do you think they care?

[OMGImInPattaya]

Has "President for Life" Robert Mugabe blamed this on the white devils too? As to the food, maybe he shouldnt have driven out all the people who knew how to grow it.

[stoneyboy]

Shame,the once bread basket of South Africa.

Southern Rhodesia a once thriving agricultural hub supplying endless crops and tobacco etc.

As Rhodesia, Zimbabwe was the breadbasket of Africa, exporting wheat, tobacco, and corn to the rest of the continent and beyond. Zimbabwe contains the most fertile farmland on the continent.

Say what you will about the former British Empire but it seems the world ran a little smoother than it does so now.

Once thriving countries,people and economies reduced to famine,corruption and civil war.

Greed and corruption abound many of these rich nations,Nigeria and its oil resources is another mess.

[JohnDodd]

Zimbabwe and disaster are synonymous, since this bitter, decrepit, racist "Politician" Mugabe has been "President" off this once fertile and prosperous land.

[Scott]

Off-topic posts removed.

[Tchooptip]

State of disaster declared in drought-ridden ZIMBABWORST

[bazza40]

If other countries send aid, how much of it will go into the pockets of Mugabe and his cronies?

[AhFarangJa]

If other countries send aid, how much of it will go into the pockets of Mugabe and his cronies?

All of it....

Good old Mugabe turned a bread basket into a basket case.

As another poster has said....You wanted independence.......deal with it...

[soalbundy]

Maybe if he asked nicely he could get the white farmers to come back, you know the ones that produced a surplus of food every year.

[NeilSA1]

Robert Mugabe​ is the state of disaster. You reap what you sow / don't sow.

[i claudius]

Robert Mugabe​ is the state of disaster. You reap what you sow / don't sow.

Well he sowed the wind and his people reaped the whirlwind

[OMGImInPattaya]

Robert Mugabe​ is the state of disaster. You reap what you sow / don't sow.

Well he sowed the wind and his people reaped the whirlwind

No, the problem is he didn't sow anything but chaos, mismanagement, and hatred for the white man; and so his people have nothing to reap...but he does spend allot on his Pretorian Guards and fancy houses and cars and no doubt mistresses...maybe his people can fill their empty bellies with pride.

[i claudius]

Robert Mugabe​ is the state of disaster. You reap what you sow / don't sow.

Well he sowed the wind and his people reaped the whirlwind

No, the problem is he didn't sow anything and so his people have nothing to reap...but he does spend allot on his Pretorian Guards and fancy houses and cars and no doubt mistresses...maybe his people can fill their empty bellies with pride.

He took lessons from N Korea

[Buddumber]

latest tirade

Outgoing African Union Chairperson and Zimbabwe's President, Robert Mugabe gives an address to the 26th presidential summit of the African Union. Picture: AFP/ Tony Karumba

Mugabe rants at whites, Obama

NEWS/AFRICA / 30 January 2016 at 17:00pm

By: Peter Fabricius

Addis Ababa

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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was given a standing ovation by his peers at the African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Saturday as he handed over the chair of the body with a rousing speech, filled with more than his usual invective against former colonists, imperialists, Westerners, US President Barack Obama, the United Nations, and whites.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon squirmed in his seat on the podium when the 91-year-old Mugabe - still feisty despite the annual eruption of rumours about his death this month - threatened that Africa would walk out of the UN unless it was given permanent representation on the UN Security Council.

We have asked and asked and asked for security council reform, he said, adding that Africans were tired of making hollow speeches at the UN with no results.He said Africans were not real members of the UN, only those with white skins were members and if they decided one day down with the UN they would walk out of it.If the UN is to survive, we [Africa] must be equal members of it, he said to loud applause.Youre a good man, Mr Ban Ki-moon, but we cant make you a fighter. Thats not what your mission was. But we shall fight for our own identity and personality as Africans.

He told Ban to tell the UN that Africans are also human, not ghosts. Tell them, that we also belong to the world.He said the UNs headquarters in New York was misplaced and should be in a more populous country, such as China, India, or in Africa.Yet Africans and others were placed there [New York] with the white faces and pink noses next to us - yet how many are they compared to us?But Mugabe also thanked Ban for working with Africa in fighting Ebola and helping to fight terrorism and other crises.He also suggested Obama was a puppet of whites. After berating whites for dragging Africans across the ocean as slaves, he said those blacks might now seem free - particularly Obama.But what is he? A voice made to speak their language, to act their act and not our act. They are still superious.Mugabe said in America black people were still inferior, living in places such as Harlem in New York, where education and health care were inferior.Black people were shot in the streets, and nobody seems to talk about it, but today instead they still want to talk about us.

Even after colonialism, the former colonists were still everywhere in Africa, if not physically, then through NGOs, a comment which drew much applause from the audience.He said they were also on the continent as spies, pretenders, some say they are here in Africa to assist us, even in armed groups in our territories effecting regime change.

At the end of his speech, which was scheduled to last ten minutes but in fact continued close to an hour - with many digressions down memory lane as he reminisced about the liberation struggle - Mugabe handed over the AU chairmanship to Chads President Idriss Deby, giving him a mock bang on the head with the chairpersons gavel as he did so.

He assured Deby that he would still be around if he wanted to call on him.I will still be there - until God says come to join the other angels, he said to loud laughter.

He raised his fist twice in a black power salute when he returned to his seat.

South African President Jacob Zuma seemed uneasy about the standing ovation, only rising to his feet slowly after nearly everyone else had.

Independent Foreign Service

not bad for a 91-year-old

[SgtRock]

OMGImInPattaya, on 06 Feb 2016 - 18:40, said:

No, the problem is he didn't sow anything but chaos, mismanagement, and hatred for the white man; and so his people have nothing to reap...but he does spend allot on his Pretorian Guards and fancy houses and cars and no doubt mistresses...maybe his people can fill their empty bellies with pride.

You forgot his private jets.

[Buddumber]

OMGImInPattaya, on 06 Feb 2016 - 18:40, said:

No, the problem is he didn't sow anything but chaos, mismanagement, and hatred for the white man; and so his people have nothing to reap...but he does spend allot on his Pretorian Guards and fancy houses and cars and no doubt mistresses...maybe his people can fill their empty bellies with pride.

You forgot his private jets.

you dont think the now outgoing Chairman of the African Union (over a billion people) should have a private jet?

[SgtRock]

Buddumber, on 06 Feb 2016 - 21:20, said:

SgtRock, on 06 Feb 2016 - 19:49, said:

OMGImInPattaya, on 06 Feb 2016 - 18:40, said:

OMGImInPattaya, on 06 Feb 2016 - 18:40, said:

No, the problem is he didn't sow anything but chaos, mismanagement, and hatred for the white man; and so his people have nothing to reap...but he does spend allot on his Pretorian Guards and fancy houses and cars and no doubt mistresses...maybe his people can fill their empty bellies with pride.

You forgot his private jets.

you dont think the now outgoing Chairman of the African Union (over a billion people) should have a private jet?

The man who brought about the demise of the once prosperous Zimbabwe. Presided over hyper-inflation, 80% poverty levels and 90% unemployment. Who decimated the farming industry along with a whole raft of other things that I wont go into.

Deserves a lot of things. A private jet is not 1 of them.

I hold the chairman of the AU in the same way as I hold the President of the EU. About 1mm higher than a snakes belly.

[Gary A]

No doubt it is the Brit's fault. I don't understand how they can control the weather but it cannot possibly be Mugabe's fault.

[boomerangutang]

Severe droughts in many other parts of Africa, not least; Somalia.

[Cats4ever]

No doubt that Mugabe is a disaster. However, conflating that fact with the end of colonialism is a stretch.

Settler societies displaced the indigines. Where the settlers, my ancestors included, vastly outnumbered the original inhabitants, the original's cause was lost. Might is right. In the examples where the settlers were vastly outnumbered by the originals e.g. South Africa, Rhodesia and to an extent Kenya, you had to enact cruel controls that lost you the support of the world. The economy deteriorates along with the will to persist.

[Buddumber]

Buddumber, on 06 Feb 2016 - 21:20, said:

SgtRock, on 06 Feb 2016 - 19:49, said:

OMGImInPattaya, on 06 Feb 2016 - 18:40, said:

OMGImInPattaya, on 06 Feb 2016 - 18:40, said:

No, the problem is he didn't sow anything but chaos, mismanagement, and hatred for the white man; and so his people have nothing to reap...but he does spend allot on his Pretorian Guards and fancy houses and cars and no doubt mistresses...maybe his people can fill their empty bellies with pride.

You forgot his private jets.

you dont think the now outgoing Chairman of the African Union (over a billion people) should have a private jet?

The man who brought about the demise of the once prosperous Zimbabwe. Presided over hyper-inflation, 80% poverty levels and 90% unemployment. Who decimated the farming industry along with a whole raft of other things that I wont go into.

Deserves a lot of things. A private jet is not 1 of them.

I hold the chairman of the AU in the same way as I hold the President of the EU. About 1mm higher than a snakes belly.

so you'd be an ardent backer of these war criminals who self righteously strut around the planet loudly proclaiming democracy at every opportunity while all the while strictly and steadfastly enforcing a planet wide military dictatorship with no voice or input allowed from a billion plus Africans

[Chicog]

Maybe if he asked nicely he could get the white farmers to come back, you know the ones that produced a surplus of food every year.

Only last week some friends of friends were arrested and removed from their farm by government thugs.

Then they give a working farm to some chimps and they ---- it up.

[SABloke]

OMGImInPattaya, on 06 Feb 2016 - 18:40, said:

No, the problem is he didn't sow anything but chaos, mismanagement, and hatred for the white man; and so his people have nothing to reap...but he does spend allot on his Pretorian Guards and fancy houses and cars and no doubt mistresses...maybe his people can fill their empty bellies with pride.

You forgot his private jets.

you dont think the now outgoing Chairman of the African Union (over a billion people) should have a private jet?

Even POTUS doesn't have one

[i claudius]

Maybe if he asked nicely he could get the white farmers to come back, you know the ones that produced a surplus of food every year.

Only last week some friends of friends were arrested and removed from their farm by government thugs.

Then they give a working farm to some chimps and they ---- it up.

It was actually given to a doctor and his wife who works in the UK

[Buddumber]

OMGImInPattaya, on 06 Feb 2016 - 18:40, said:

No, the problem is he didn't sow anything but chaos, mismanagement, and hatred for the white man; and so his people have nothing to reap...but he does spend allot on his Pretorian Guards and fancy houses and cars and no doubt mistresses...maybe his people can fill their empty bellies with pride.

You forgot his private jets.

you dont think the now outgoing Chairman of the African Union (over a billion people) should have a private jet?

Even POTUS doesn't have one

thats what you would expect for an insignificunt non billion country of that sort