Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe accused Britain of trying to effect regime change in the country by crippling it economically through sanctions. He was speaking in his address to the summit on the global food price crisis. Robert Mugabe’s presence at the U.N food summit has sparked protests from some world leaders.
“The United Kingdom has mobilised their friends and allies in Europe, north America, Australia and New Zealand to impose illegal economic sanctions against Zimbabwe,” he said.
“All this has been done to cripple Zimbabwe’s economy and thereby effect illegal regime change in our country.”
He also went on to defend the government policy of seizing land from white farmers saying he is undoing the legacy left by Zimbabwe’s former colonial ‘masters’.
Who is to blame for the current Zimbabwe economic problems? Is it because of economic sanctions? Or is it because of the government’s policies, which most people and also the international community believes have destroyed the country which was once the bread basket of Africa?
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