VICTORIA FALLS – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as the new chair of Africa’s largest trade bloc yesterday called on its members to act against the ‘cancer’ of conflict on the continent.
‘You certainly agree with me that conflict is a serious cancer in our region and indeed many parts of Africa,’ Mugabe said at a two-day summit of the 19 member Common Market for Eastern Southern Africa (Comesa).
‘Strife has made us lose valuable manpower through death and displacement of people,’ said Mugabe to an audience that included Sudan’s President Omar al-Beshir who faces an international arrest warrant for war crimes in Darfur.
– Nampa-AFP
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