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Original Post Date: 2002-07-17 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 7/17/2002 2:26:26 PM
Mugabe Begs for aid from Castro
President Mugabe of Zimbabwe was forced to beg for help yesterday from one of his last remaining political allies – President Castro of Cuba. Cuba is in no position to bail out anybody, but it shows the desperation of Mr Mugabe that he has to turn to Havana to stave off Zimbabwe’s economic collapse. He needs funds urgently to pay off mounting debts to his chief benefactor, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, who is tiring of Zimbabwe’s failure to honour their deal. Zimbabwe is trying to renegotiate the $360 million ((194)Â(163)£230 million) deal, which expires at the end of the month, in which Libya lends Zimbabwe money for fuel in return for a sizeable stake in farms, hotels and oil installations owned by the Harare Government. The Libyans complain that they have seen no return and have sent three high-powered delegations to Harare in the past month to thrash out better terms.
Mr Mugabe and his wife have been feted on a visit to Cuba, where yesterday they met Senor Castro at the Palace of the Revolution. Cuba is promising to send more doctors to Zimbabwe, where the health service is disintegrating and where most of its own doctors have fled abroad.
Zimbabwe’s diplomats are said not to have been paid for three months and food supplies are so short that Ethiopia has offered to send grain. But Mr Mugabe is running out of friends to help him. Some senior figures from the Chinese Communist Party were in Harare last month and agreed to buy 25,000 tonnes of tobacco, although drought and chaos on Zimbabwe’s best farms may put this deal in jeopardy. The Chinese also agreed to provide interest-free loans, tractors and other equipment to war veterans who have taken over white-owned farms. A report yesterday by the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Africa blamed the seizure of white-owned farms for contributing to what it called “the deepest economic crisis in Zimbabwe’s history”.
Source: Times (UK)
By Daniel McGrory
Published: Wed 17-Jul-2002