Can Africa fix Zimbabwe?

China has to answer for its attempt to sell arms to Robert Mugabe as he cracks down on people who say he lost Zimbabwe

What happened

A ship carrying Chinese arms for landlocked Zimbabwe’s military reportedly turned back toward China on Tuesday after a coalition of dock workers’ unions and legal and human rights groups in southern Africa prevented the ship from unloading. The resistance from Zimbabwe’s neighbors was an unusual reversal of regional support for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, and a rebuttal of South African President Thabo Mbeki’s nonconfrontational leadership in dealing with Mugabe.

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