Britain was so optimistic two days before a United Nations Security Council meeting in July 2008 that China and Russia would support a resolution to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe that Prime Minister Gordon Brown felt that his “nose had been bloodied” by the Russians when they vetoed the resolution.
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Britain has been funding the Zimbabwe military, which has been accused of human rights violations and looting diamonds from Marange, over the past 12 months but the under-secretary for Defence Andrew Robathan refused to disclose how much the British government was paying to Zimbabwe and several other countries under its programme.
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Zimbabwe, under President Robert Mugabe, has descended from the intensive care unit into the morgue, according to the African Presidents Index compiled by the Nairobi-based East African Magazine which is part of the Nation Media Group. Mugabe was ranked 47 out of Africa’s 52 presidents and scored 22.62 out of 100.
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