Mugabe for President of USA (21-06-07)

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe called an emergency caucus of both Houses of Parliament yesterday to ratify amendments to the constitutive Act of the African Union (AU) that is set to unite Africa under one government amid reports the veteran 83-year-old leader was eager to be Africa Presiden

t or deputy.
Parliament, which had adjourned last week to the end of July, was recalled by Mugabe for a special meeting specifically to deal with “urgent business.”
The decree was issued a day after Mugabe returned from an official visit to Libya where he discussed with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi a plan to be tabled at the forthcoming AU meeting in Ghana to establish a United States of Africa.
The two presidents, both among the world’s longest serving leaders, agreed in talks in Tripoli last week that the 53-nation AU should be turned into an embryonic federal government at an AU heads of state summit in Ghana on July 1-2.
Gaddafi is eyeing the presidency of Africa while Mugabe wants to be the deputy Africa president.
Parliament was yesterday expected to approve the protocol on the Amendments to the Constitutive Act of the African Union (AU) so that Zimbabwe can ratify it.
Key amendments include the right of the AU to intervene in a member State to restore peace. The amendment says the intervention has to be decided by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government, on the recommendation of the Peace and Security Council, in the case of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity as well as other serious threat to legitimate order.
Gaddafi has long favoured the establishment of a United States of Africa as a means of ridding the 800 million strong continent of what he calls “Western colonialism.”
The project attracts emotional support from some in Africa since the idea of a federal United States of Africa was first promoted by Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president and pioneer of Pan-Africanism, but many doubt its practicality.

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