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Africa Subsaharan
Kenyan PM Urges AU to Send Troops to Zimbabwe
2008-06-30
Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Saturday dismissed Zimbabwe's presidential run-off election on Friday as a sham and called for the deployment of African Union troops in the country. '(President) Mugabe is a shame to Africa and the African Union should take it soldiers to Zimbabwe to free the people in that country,' said Mr Odinga.
You and what army?
Mr Odinga said Kenya did not recognise Mugabe as the legitimate president of Zimbabwe describing his expected victory in the election boycotted by the opposition candidate as 'fake'. 'President Mugabe went ahead with the fake elections in which he competed against himself. That was a fake victory and we do not recognise it,' said the prime minister in Nyando constituency during the thanksgiving ceremony for the area MP Mr Fred Outa. 'You cannot say you have won an election in which you arrest your opponents, where you beat and kill your opponents, where people cannot campaign because you have locked up them in jail.'

Mr Odinga has consistently spoken strongly against Mugabe in the recent past describing the long-serving Zimbabwean leader as a dictator, which he (Mr Odinga) says has got him into Mugabe's bad books. 'Mugabe says that Raila is his enemy number one. I do not need to go to Zimbabwe...' said Mr Odinga.
Posted by:Steve White

#3  I'ma change muh name to Ecru
Rebel.

/fighting the man, all the live long day
Posted by: Ecru Rebel   2008-06-30 19:00  

#2  Too bad he's not a "white colonialist oppressor". He'd have been out of there years ago.
Posted by: tu3031   2008-06-30 14:18  

#1  Maybe he meant AUSTRALIAN troops.
Posted by: Perfesser   2008-06-30 14:15  

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