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Armed riot police have raided the headquarters of Zimbabwe's main opposition party in Harare and arrested scores of activists.

The situation in Zimbabwe continues to spiral into a crisis that at any moment could turn violent.

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has fled Zimbabwe, fearing for his safety.

The world community needs to get more involved. why is this story not on the front pages every day?

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15 responses // Zimbabwe police storm opposition office

  • That is great question.
    We as a nation spend too much time , money , and energy in war. While crisis continues throughout the world the U.S being the superpower has a responsibility to promote righteous action. I am not saying this is a genie in the lamp situation but the change has to start somewhere. Maybe pullin the troops out of Iraq and focusing on home to rebuild the economy would be a start. Honestly we have wars being fought everyday in the projects, the ghettos, the trailer parks, and even the suburbs!!
    ROCSTAGIS
  • http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL2577786020...
    Today Mugabe appear unlikely to win back control of parliament in the partial vote recount. Thirteen areas have been recounted so far. Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF must win nine of 10 remaining constituencies to take back control of parliament, according to figures from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).

    South Africa is truly admirable for refusing to admit a Chinese ship loaded with arms heading for Zimbabwe to offload its cargo. It could have been a lot more messy had workers not been so brave and principled.
    mischabarrett
  • I agree jhaber I think this is the most important news story at the moment. The international community needs to act now before Mugabe gets away with reversing the result of the election.

    The idea of western powers 'spreading' democracy normally makes me slightly uncomfortable but I think in this instance its rapidly becoming justified that some form of action is taken to make sure that this situation doesn't deteriorate into something bloody and awful. African nations made a good start by helping to keep China's arms cache at sea but there is a lot more they could do to attempt to resolve this situation. Its important that Africa polices itself.

    The Chinese's long standing support of Mugabe is just another example of a increasingly questionable foreign policy. Will this problem grow as they wrestle the baton of 'world superpower' from the US? I think protesters against the Olympic Torch should include Zimbabwe and Darfur in their pro Tibet agenda.
    Pardon
  • Will there ever be peace?
    KINGDOMFALL
  • I have this notion in my mind, I might be crazy, I don't know... Africa is the continent we evolved on. Humanity has been there the longest, and used the land the hardest. There is a huge amount of diversity there, and lots of natural resources. Yet they're fighting and killing each other, and Western nations have only fueled it by various means.

    I can't help but wonder if this is a model for the rest of us... When we run out of land and resources, this is what humanity as a whole will end up doing, because we all think of ourselves as 'us' and everyone else as 'them'.

    I feel like its beginning to happen, and it feels like a snowball thing, slow at first then out of control before you know it, with no where left to go.

    The story does not make the front pages, because people do not want to hear the truth. People do not want to see what is in store for them....
    Kati_kat
  • Its a bit of a leap to think that because Africa has been inhabited by humans the longest the same things that happen there will repeat in other continents.

    I think Africa's problems have more to do with the people that have ran the continent for the last few hundred years. Starting with the Europeans who brutally conquered it, down to the mostly corrupt leaders who took over. It has a different kind of history, we just cant judge it by our standards.

    Until fairly recently Zimbabwe was one of the biggest producers and exporters of food in the whole of Africa. Its Mugabe's policies and incompetence that have left its people starving.
    Pardon
  • I see what you're after and I agree to an extent, I just feel like as different as the histories are, underneath they share a common thread, and that might be human incompetence, arrogance, and ignorance...

    I don't really think it will be an exact repeat, just a similar theme around the world...
    Kati_kat
  • there is an ironic correlation around the world, not just in Africa, between democratic elections and violence. They can bring out the best in people, or the worst.
    jhaber
  • This, is going to be a shame.
    mako2424
  • If no one steps up to help the helpless people in Zimbabwe, Mugabe will continue his reign of terror, How many people would fight for Mugabe if the UN where to step in to take him out of power? My guess is not many.
    justwannafindmytrue
  • This was expected, nonetheless..such a shame!!!
    cibalin
  • isnt Mugabe too old to runa country . If he crashed the entire economy in hes viral years then what makes any one in their right mind think he is capable of anything more ?
    ikokoagbo
  • we'll be there soon enough since no one else will lift a finger for them. i just don't want to hear the anti american fall out i always hear when we finally do something about helping out someone else who needs it
    diode
  • If we didn't have such a long track record of only helping people when it will make us look good, or when we get something out it, then there wouldn't be so much fall-out... I agree its a bit unfair because that's not always true, but its happened enough that it sticks in peoples' minds...
    Kati_kat
  • Old Bob is at it again it seems. Where is the African Union?

    The U.S. recently sent 171 million in aid to be subsidized to the people of Zimbabwe. The problem is African nation leadership, not Portuguese/Euro exploration, nor exploitation hundreds of years ago. No one from the west makes individuals violent rapists.

    Reparations are paid to Africa and go on ignored by the anti American faction, but of course you have Obama, Wright, and others who say America does nothing but hurt Africa. They slay me with their ignorance. Some,in fact want the U.S. to look like a Kenya, or the Congo.

    May God Bless the Boer people and others of South Africa.
    Jodes

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