Controversial security law advances in Zimbabwe

As bill passes in lower house, opposition members say they fear President Mugabe's government will curtail freedom of speech, breach privacy.

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Mugabe

I was offered a contract to kill Mugabe in 1977, I should have taken it!

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U.S. Funds Dicator Mugabe

The World Bank has funded many projects that benefit Mugabe, which probabaly keeps him in power. The U.S. controls the World Bank. Americans need to ask themslves why we have a policy that directly or indirectly funds world dictators. When we have so many social problems here at home, why are we sending billions of dollars abroad to corrupt regimes?

Here is an example of a World Bank policy that supported Mugabe's White farmers land grab.

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/PROJECTS/0,,contentMDK:20017361~menuPK:64282138~pagePK:41367~piPK:279616~theSitePK:40941,00.html
Zimbabwe Signs US$5 Million Learning and Innovation Loan to Support Land Reform

Washington, November 16, 1999 The Government of Zimbabwe and the World Bank have signed a US$5 million credit to finance the resettlement of poor farmers under the Government's land reform program. The credit will finance mainly resettlement costs and on-farm investments. The credit comes in the wake of the Government's adoption of a new policy framework to guide land reform: the Inception Phase Framework Plan (1999 – 2000). This policy framework is the culmination of intensive and on-going consultations between the Government, stakeholders, and development partners on land reform in Zimbabwe.

More on the World Bank and its unmitigated disaster in Africa, including its self-serving lack of transparency.

http://www.freeafrica.org/reports.html
"Finally, the Bank does not live up to the very principle of transparency it preaches. The most infuriating aspect of World Bank loan agreements with crafty, corrupt and despotic African governments is that the loan agreements are often conducted in secret. World Bank directors meet with high-ranking African government officials to conduct negotiations behind closed doors. The media is not invited; nor is the public -- or the people on whose behalf billions of dollars are being borrowed and who, ultimately, are liable to repay the loans."