Mass protests are needed to force Mugabe’s hand

Will he or won't he? It has been nearly a week since the polls closed, and still no word from Robert Mugabe on when he will begin his journey into political oblivion.
It now seems clear that the more Mr Mugabe's hand-picked electoral authorities stall on announcing his apparent loss to long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai, the more manoeuvring Mr Mugabe is doing to hang on.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/mass-protests-are-neededto-force-mugabersquos-hand-804539.html

End of days for 'Africa's Hitler'

Africa's Hitler may finally be losing his nerve.
Tuesday night, Zimbabwe was abuzz with rumours that Robert Mugabe's security henchmen are deep into negotiations with opposition leaders and South African diplomats to push the 84-year-old President into a face-saving and prosecution-free retirement.
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=415128

Zimbabwe and the new Cowardly Colonialism

‘We’ve beaten Mugabe’, said a frontpage headline in the London Evening Standard yesterday. Only there were no quote marks around the words ‘We’ve beaten Mugabe’, which made it difficult to tell if the paper was reporting the thoughts of Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) upon its electoral victory over Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF Party, or its own back-slapping relish at the thought that its journalism may have played a part in toppling Mugabe.
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4942/

Political crisis ‘puts the poor at risk of starving’

Instability and the anxiety over the formation of a new coalition Cabinet are a threat to food security in Kenya, a UN official warned Thursday.
http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=2&newsid=120449

Investors eye Zimbabwe with new interest, caution

Having long written off Zimbabwe as one of the world's least appealing economies, international investors are beginning to show signs of interest as they suspect the end of President Robert Mugabe's rule approaches.
http://www.namibian.com.na/

New Signs of Mugabe Crackdown in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s government staged separate police raids on Thursday against the main opposition party, foreign journalists and at least one democracy advocate, raising the specter of a broad crackdown aimed at keeping the country’s imperiled leaders in power.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/world/africa/04zimbabwe.html?th&emc=th

Ghana; 27,000 to go home, repatriation begins April 14

The Ghanaian government has taken a firm decision that all 26,967 Liberian refugees in the country should return home, Mr. Kwamena Bartels, Minister of the Interior said on Tuesday.
http://www.myjoyonline.com/news/200804/14947.asp