Rome
The leader of Zimbabwe used the unlikely setting of the U.N.’s food agency meeting this week to rail against the United States. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe called President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair “the two unholy men of our millennium, who in the same way as Hitler and Mussolini formed an unholy alliance to attack an innocent country.” Tony Hall, U.S. envoy to the Food and Agriculture Organization, said he found it strange that Mugabe had even been invited to the summit, since it is Mugabe’s land-seizure policies that plunged Zimbabwe into famine. Mugabe has defended the seizures of white-owned farms as a way to redress the injustices of colonialism. Since the seizures began five years ago, agricultural production has virtually stopped.
Subscribe to The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
Create an account with the same email registered to your subscription to unlock access.
-
The biggest climate records in the last yearIn Depth The number of records set in the past year is a stark reminder of the destructiveness of climate change
-
'The future of abortion access in many states may come down to who has the final say'Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
-
Supreme Court rejects challenge to CFPBSpeed Read The court rejected a conservative-backed challenge to the way the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is funded
