US President Barack Obama has effectively blocked Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe from attending his special meeting at the African Union’s hub. Obama who says: “We did not inherit this land (Africa) from our forefathers, we borrowed it from our children,” has publicly slapped Mugabe, analysts reveal.
African Union (AU) and Sadc chairman President Robert Mugabe will not be among several African leaders scheduled to meet visiting United States President Barack Obama at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, today, his spokesperson George Charamba has said.
Charamba said Mugabe was unmoved by Obama’s visit to the AU headquarters, describing the event as just “a visit by any other visitor”.
“The chairman does not run the AU centre. Obama has come to Ethiopia for an official visit and to address the staff there.
There are many dignitaries who come to the AU headquarters and you can imagine if all come wanting the President’s input,” Charamba said.
“It’s the Head of State of another country. If you are afraid of him, we are not because he is just a Head of State who visits Africa and the AU headquarters by virtue of his ancestry. Madam (Nkosazana) Dhlamini-Zuma (AU Commission chairperson) is big enough to receive him.”
Charamba said when it was said Obama would address the 54-member bloc, Zimbabwe did not represent his audience.
Obama will today address the AU bloc on several issues affecting Africa.
“AU is not an organ run by Zimbabwe. It does not belong to Zimbabwe. If you want to know who is attending, call the AU offices,” he said.
He said Mugabe and other AU leaders would only receive the report of his visit in January at the AU summit.
“There will be a report on the summit in January where we will get a briefing on the visitor who is called Barack Obama ‘who we received and went back home happy’. . . He did not come to visit Mugabe. He went to Ethiopia and asked to visit the HQ. I did not see you writing that Mugabe snubs Obama when he went for the Ebola summit (in New York),” Charamba said.
Political analyst Charles Mangongera said the strained relations between Harare and Washington could have influenced the absence of Mugabe as AU chairman to meet Obama in Ethiopia.
“Obviously the nature of the diplomatic relations between Harare and Washington is such that Obama has carefully avoided Mugabe. If relations between the two were cordial, he could have conferred with the AU chairman but remember, they have a position on Zimbabwe that could have influenced his behaviour,” Mangongera said.-Newsday
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It is time the tyrant left office!
You will never hear me complain that President Mugabe should have attending the meeting; as I said he never listens and talks nonsense so why should anyone pay a dollar for him to go anywhere!
BOOM! What was your question by the way? Its not such a hidden way to shut a conversation.
BOOM! What was your question by the way? Its not such a hidden way to shut a conversation.
BOOM! What was your question by the way? Its not such a hidden way to shut a conversation.
You are an idiot of the highest order, to say Mugabe is semi literate proves that you do not even know the meaning of the word. You wanted President to be addressed by someone who encourages kuisa mumadhodhi. kana iwe uchiiswa kumadhodhi endako. There is no sane head of state who was there to listen to that ngochani .
You are an idiot of the highest order, to say Mugabe is semi literate proves that you do not even know the meaning of the word. You wanted President to be addressed by someone who encourages kuisa mumadhodhi. kana iwe uchiiswa kumadhodhi endako. There is no sane head of state who was there to listen to that ngochani .
Stupid threats & insults can only emanate from a brain-dead person!! Intelligent people respond with facts not insults.
Stupid threats & insults can only emanate from a brain-dead person!! Intelligent people respond with facts not insults.
Stupid threats & insults can only emanate from a brain-dead person!! Intelligent people respond with facts not insults.
In case you don’t realize it, you’re NOT answering my question above !! Totally off-topic!!
In case you don’t realize it, you’re NOT answering my question above !! Totally off-topic!!
In case you don’t realize it, you’re NOT answering my question above !! Totally off-topic!!
Bushcat pliz go back to the bush!!…you may hate Gushaz all you like but the man is a living indestructible brand. For USA to say Zim is an extra-ordinary threat to its foreign interests means that the fading mega-power even acknowledges kuti kune shumba inonzi Mugabe!!
But the smooth-talking Obama has NOT done anything to stop trigger-happy WHITE police officers from using unarmed BLACKS as target practice on the streets of America!! Kungwarira pamuromo sehuku!!..
That’s it presidents must come do their bit and go not stay foerever (beyond their use-by-date) till death visits them
THANKS TO OBAMA…MUGABE IS A JOKE…..ONLY THE LIKES OF MAGAYA…BIG BROTHER MUNYA…..DALI TAMBO … DESERVE MUGABE S LIES AND TIME
THANKS TO OBAMA…MUGABE IS A JOKE…..ONLY THE LIKES OF MAGAYA…BIG BROTHER MUNYA…..DALI TAMBO … DESERVE MUGABE S LIES AND TIME
THANKS TO OBAMA…MUGABE IS A JOKE…..ONLY THE LIKES OF MAGAYA…BIG BROTHER MUNYA…..DALI TAMBO … DESERVE MUGABE S LIES AND TIME
All the Shona comrades are going wild on this forum, denying that that spineless semiliterate idiot Mugabe was side swiped by Obama. This fool of ours would have given his back teeth to be there, now all these idiots on this forum are making all sorts of excuses for him not being there. Hey Comrades, the night will come when you will ALL be too scared to sleep! Why? Because you will be hearing a lot of little “Drone” noises and you will never know when it’s your time to go. So if I were you I wouldn’t be too vocal about being pro Mugabe or pro ZANU PF, because I can assure you, the day will come when you will be made to pay for your sins!!!!!
You can tell that all the ZANU comrades have been so brain washed that they believe their own lies!
All you zanoids on this forum just forget you can fool anyone here, if your Bobo could attend a youth conference in Kenya as AU head, what hogwash are you trying to preach to some of us ? Obama blocked him from attending, live with it iwewe lapdog Charamba, you’re daydreaming if you think we were born yesterday !
All you zanoids on this forum just forget you can fool anyone here, if your Bobo could attend a youth conference in Kenya as AU head, what hogwash are you trying to preach to some of us ? Obama blocked him from attending, live with it iwewe lapdog Charamba, you’re daydreaming if you think we were born yesterday !
All you zanoids on this forum just forget you can fool anyone here, if your Bobo could attend a youth conference in Kenya as AU head, what hogwash are you trying to preach to some of us ? Obama blocked him from attending, live with it iwewe lapdog Charamba, you’re daydreaming if you think we were born yesterday !
I do not understand how people can choose to misunderstand things to support their entrenched positions. Your hatred of Mugabe must not cloud sound judgment. I can understand if you say you do not like the man, I am sure there are many people who fall in your category. However, to then suggest that whatever he does is wrong or whatever he does not do is also wrong, betrays your shallow mentality and lack of sound education. President Mugabe as the Chairman of the AU does not need an invite from an invited guest like President Obama. It is the AU that extended the invite to President Obama.
Further, if indeed the President had decided to go and attend the function, most of you would be crying foul, accusing him of spending too much time away from his office. So there is no way that he will do anything that will satisfy you and your kind. So in my view you and your kind must revise and review you positions which are informed by blind hate. Such positions will never help our country move forward.
There is nothing good about this Obama Beast. Its a benefit to Mugabe not to meet with this cursed person(beast) Obama who has fulfilled the book of revelation by imposition of his Obama Health bill. Is it what he wants to bring to Africa. we don’t associate our soil with Satanists.
Big up Zimbabwe. Its a blessing in disguise for Mugabe not to be invited as this could give us a permanent curse from God by dining with the Beast(Obama).
There is nothing good about this Obama Beast. Its a benefit to Mugabe not to meet with this cursed person(beast) Obama who has fulfilled the book of revelation by imposition of his Obama Health bill. Is it what he wants to bring to Africa. we don’t associate our soil with Satanists.
Big up Zimbabwe. Its a blessing in disguise for Mugabe not to be invited as this could give us a permanent curse from God by dining with the Beast(Obama).
There is nothing good about this Obama Beast. Its a benefit to Mugabe not to meet with this cursed person(beast) Obama who has fulfilled the book of revelation by imposition of his Obama Health bill. Is it what he wants to bring to Africa. we don’t associate our soil with Satanists.
Big up Zimbabwe. Its a blessing in disguise for Mugabe not to be invited as this could give us a permanent curse from God by dining with the Beast(Obama).
Your question exposes you. Apparently that’s how shallow u r. You sound ignorant when u decide not to sound stupid
Anoenda kumotaura chii…..murume mukuru anogara achiwomekwa nemanext door achimhanyisa vana ne mukadzi netsvimbo!
Pane angada kusangana nezhowezhowe yakadaro.
Eh we can produce our own food….obama is an uncle tom….hee we gonna create 2million jobs….Robert is the worst Africa has got to offer.
President Obama would be wasting his time talking to someone who has ears but does not hear. He would be wasting his time listening to someone who is always talking rubbish – that is President Mugabe, does not listen and talks rubbish all the time!
Go on hallucinating!!…
Go on hallucinating!!…
Go on hallucinating!!…
In case you didn’t know…Obama is leaving office soon!! So what future are you baffling about??!!
Your pathological hatred of Gushaz ichakupengesai!!…there is NO blocking whatsoever here. By the way, what did those African leaders who were invited to the Africa -US summit actually get besides the photo-shoots??!!
Changamire Sando, it is you that is hallucinating! You alone loves Mugabe and don’t speak for everyone, uyahlanya wena mfana.
Obama is planing the future of Africa, what would he plan with 92yrs who will die anytime,soon.
What does young milk sucking Obama know really?
You are hallucinating once again BushFool. We all love Mugabe to bits. Hameno iweiwe kuti unobva kupi mfana!!!
Do you think the day will come when someone will consider using “Drones” to get rid of ALL of the thieving savages that are part of the Mugabe gang! Imagine what 20 drones could do in an evening…wipe the slate clean once and for all and start again!!!!