Just about everything on Zimbabwe is major news in newspapers or internet that have associations with anglos, whether in the UK or especially in Southern Africa. The problem with this agenda driven reporting is that it leaves out important other news items.

Do us a favour Phiri and count how many of the news stories under World News on the BBC website are about Zimbabwe. Same for CNN, NBC, etc.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/default.stm http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/

At this exact moment (22:23 BST) I see NO stories about Zim on either of those sites.

If there's any fabrication and agenda at play Phiri it's your anti-west propaganda!

Minddumb, there are two articles on the BBC on line. See what the headline of AllAfrica has been the last three month? All Zimbabwe. Do your research you dummy!!!

Zimbabwe is not the only African country deserving such publicity. The Democratic Republic of Congo has lost 3 million people, there is an going war there! Sudan, Darfur has not been solved (only voluminous words from your kind), Somalia, there is no government. Just because there are approximately 5 million whites in Southern White does not mean that you should take the center stage.

Mind dumb you are being totally foolish. There are almost a billion people in Africa and the white anglo voice is a tiny dictortorial voice. Get real you hardly can say you represent any major sector of the Southern Africa population. Cut the foolish,idiotic propaganda....

Yaa, I really feel pity for the poor analysis in Phiriá stance and information.U r ZANU PH drunk and as normal to many ZANU people u r even emotional and brainwashed...just like yo president who have destroyed the ones bread basket of Africa in a range of 28 wasted years! it speaks volumes about u, especially when u r confident in comparing Zim with Somalia, Sudan, DRC, so in actual fact when everyone is suffering to change things for the beta, to remove Zim from the deathtol list, its a suprise tt for ple like u its not even enough,Zim should be like the worst!!

Yes, just like any other country, Zim has a lot of issues happening tt calls human attention and concern,no wonder why u find stories about Zim everywhere! For u its about ZANU PF, but the truth doesnt cahnge that there is a major concern about Zim news NOW than ever.

Beware, ZANU ndeyeropa mukoma. It will bve too late for u to believe in the truth before u can be a victim of the same policies u r protecting!! And, move on with time its high time for yo father Mugabe to go, he might try everything as always but believe me Tsvangirai is yo next president in Zim, no meta how much time Mugabe will b able to stop tt but thats where Zim is heading to. Its history man...come on. U with yo own eyes wl witnwss Tsvangirai tuling tt country, if u r intelligent enaf stop killing ple being used by a dieing party, wake up! Even Mugabe himself knows tt no normal Zimbabwean will vote for him again, thats why he is busy exorsting his hopelessness thru killing. Good bye ZANU fanatic. learn to accept things u cannot change...noone can change the situation tt ZANU has lost control of the ple´s support in yo copuntry brother!

Its funny how Priri has nothing to say so attacks the messenger. Not an ounce of content from him ever.

Zimbabwe deserves a lot of attention my brotha.Why are you worried?You want to kill pple in silence?

You said "Just about everything on Zimbabwe is major news in newspapers or internet that have associations with anglos". Is AllAfrica the definitive source of world news for "anglos"? Your logic is .. wait what am I saying? Your logic? That's an oxymoron.

As usual Phiri you lash out when your brainless theories are proven wrong. I'm still waiting to see one verifiable fact in anything you post. A pathetic effort for someone who calls himself a teacher. :-D

shame on you ..even 1 lost life due to political violence or motives to us proud Zimbabweans its worth being aired worldwide...whether DRC,SUDAN,DAFUR has more deaths or not God will punish the oppressors including your own ZANU PF AND PRESIDENT. You havent been beaten thats why and l pray if you are still there in Zim it will catch up with you then you will understand the dead voices crying in the name of Zanu and your leader...God bless you and hope your mind will be open.. why hide the truth??

mindpower, instead of sending people to the wrong place, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/default.stm you may wish to try the right place:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/default.stm

The preoccupation with reporting negative news on Zimbabwe is risible and not conducive helping the good people of Zimbabwe.

What exactly do you suggets will be of help to the Zimbabwean pple?Give me a hint selector.Total silence on what is happening?No.I'm a Zimbabwean myself and I think very little of what is being done to people by ZANU-PF gets enough airplay.

frankguru, Zimbabwe's detractors today have already said they have a ten-year, multi-billion dollar rescue plan ready for when Mugabe is out of power. It speaks volumes of those with such plans to be holding back in the face of ordinary people suffering today.

So you want billions now? You just want us to give you multi-billions with no assurances of how it would be spent? I wouldn't trust Sir Robert Mugabe KCB to run a tea party, I'm less likely to trust him with billions to regenerate an economy which his policies ruined but you want it with no oversight. I thought you didn't need western involvement? You want westerners to shut up and butt out of your politics and offer no comment on Zimbabwe. You just want the money? If western governments are going to send billions in tax payers money then those tax payers have a right to know where that money is going and who is benefiting from it, if that means direct involvment in the process by signing the cheques then so be it, if that is not acceptible then we should probably keep the money, because we are a little tired of pop stars on TV and famous maillionaires asking us to donate what we can, then 5 years later seeing that the money has gone to fund a war or keep public officials in the style to which they wanted to become acustomed.

Zim has already gotten billions in aid over the past decade. And how about all those massive loans from the IMF and others which have never been paid back?

See, these guys want hand outs with no questions asked. And when the hand is withdrawn they complain that evil westerners are sabotaging their economy by withholding money they think they are entitled to.

I got a new Zim passport a few years ago. In order to get it done quickly (ie not wait months or years) I had to bribe a government official. While I was sitting in his office a UN food aid truck pulled up outside and his friends offloaded these huge bags of food into his office. Next he started calling up all his friends and family to tell them "our food is here, come pick it up". All the while he was wearing a t-shirt with a picture of his own face on it!

As Glyph says, why should we send any aid to Zimbabwe when it just goes to the wrong people? I will never support these charities because all it does is prolong the problems.

Either the West is helping in Zimbabwe or it is not. But as is typical, the West wants to have it's cake and eat it too claiming to be interested in helping out the good people of Zimbabwe whilst placing political conditions on how any economic assistance they offer. Likewise, if developing countries, like Zimbabwe, do not do the political bidding of Western donors, they suffer Western economic santions and censure, as is the present case with Zimbabwe.

Under those circumstances, the legitimate government of Zimbabwe neither wants nor requires Western assistance. Western hypocrisy becomes glaring obvious when they say they'll help out if the MDC is in power but not whilst Zanu PF is in power.

Simple really.

What is simple is the fact that you wont get the money unless you spend it in the way you say you're going to spend it, that has been made clear to you in the past.

" Since independence we have provided 44 million pounds for land reform in Zimbabwe and 500 million pounds in bilateral development assistance.

The UK remains a strong advocate for effective, well managed and pro-poor land reform. Fast-track land reform has not been implemented in line with these principles and we cannot support it. "

That was a quote from our development minister. Note the use of the term, "pro-poor".

At the meeting of Commonwealth Foreign Ministers on Zimbabwe at Abuja in 2001 the UK recognised that:

'as a result of historical injustices, the current land ownership and distribution needed to be rectified in a transparent and equitable manner'.

The meeting, including the UK, further agreed that:

'Land is at the core of the crisis in Zimbabwe and cannot be separated from other issues of concern to the Commonwealth, such as the rule of law, respect for human rights, democracy and the economy. A programme of land reform is, therefore, crucial to the resolution of the problem' [Zimbabwe has an extensive and detailed land reform programme democratically agreed by parliament including MDC MPs].

and

'The meeting also welcomed the re-affirmation of the United Kingdom's commitment to a significant financial contribution to such a land reform program and its undertaking to encourage other international donors to do the same'.

Since Abuja the UK has not contributed a single penny to the compensation fund. The Fast Track land reforms were introduced as a result of the UK's failure to abide by its pledge. And far from 'encouraging' other international donors to help out the UK has done everything in its power to alienate Zimbabwe with 'other international donors'. It is rich in the extreme for the UK to claim they won't pay up because of the Fast Track programme when the programme was only introduced because they wouldn't pay up. In this chicken and egg scenario the UK was the first chicken, imho.

For this reason alone, the UK should now butt out of Zimbabwe's affair. The UK has been a major contributors to the country's political instablity and economic meltdown, despite the UK's claims that it wants to help. The UK is ultimately and patently singularly interested in helping itself.

Three quarters of the way down the linked page, you'll find labelled 'Appendix A', 'Full Text of the Abuja Agreement on Zimbabwe'

http://www.hrforumzim.com/reports/abuja3/abuja3_comp.htm#Background

My quote is a little more up to date than yours, we stopped giving you money in 2004, not 2001. Research skills around here need to be worked on.

Glyph, no, no, no, no. There hasn't been a single penny paid to the compensation fund for white farmers since a year or two 'before' the Abuja meeting in 2001, and then not a red cent since. This, despite the UK's commitement to "significant" funding, at the meeting as was their obligation in the orginal, independence, Lancaster House agreement.

Farms invasions immediately ceased after the meeting so the rule of law was re-established as required but the UK failed to keep to its pledge - yet again. Consequently, the Fast-track land reform programme was initiated to make up for time wasted waiting for the UK in faith and in vain. Indeed, it's not far fetched to suggest that the UK was banking on the impatience and unrest (having waited patiently and peacfully for land redistribution for nearly ten years after independence) of black farm settlers to displace Mugabe.

Your 2004 quote is a response to the Fast track programme and yet another excuse from the duplicitous and treacherous UK government to renege on pledges.

As Gregory Elich, author of 'Strange Liberators: Militarism, Mayhem, and the Pursuit of Profit' puts it so well, 'History and context are essential for understanding political events' and it precisely these aspects that are lacking when many claim to examine the Zimbabwe situation.

Read and learn or, because it's a free world, don't read if you choose not to and simply keep spouting unfounded rubbish.

http://www.swans.com/library/art8/elich004.html

The Herald is listed as a source for a large number of the references in that article. Dubious isn't it.

As I mentioned before, Zambia, Mozambique and others had economic collapse yet no land reforms took place there. Mismanagement by government is the primary reason for Zim's current problems imo.

We dont mind helping legitimate governments, it's the illigitimate ones and the dictatorships we take exception to.

The international community should also stop Antonovs, Ilushyns etc THAT are dropping weapons in the DRC.Everyone knows WHO is fueling the war in the DRC!

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

You mean the Ilyushins of Aviete Aviation perhaps? A company formed by Andrew Smith a former British Army officer. The same Aviete Aviation which is based in Zimbabwe and accused by the UN of carpet bombing civilians in the DRC? That company is a good friend to Sir. Robert Mugabe KCB. Yet another mercenary outfit contracted by a loony-toon.