Archbishop of Canterbury condemns Zimbabwe ‘outrage’: CEN 12.12.08

Regional talks to resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe have failed, the Archbishop of Cape Town said last week, and the “terrible deterioration, disease and despair we are seeing in Zimbabwe” requires Robert Mugabe go. Archbishop Thabo Makgoba’s Nov 28 call is one of a series of statements made by church and state leaders for the Zimbabwe strongman to step down. On Dec 9 the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams told ReligiousIntelligence.com the situation in Zimbabwe was “now a complete humanitarian outrage, compounded by self-serving and self-deceiving pronouncements from those clinging to power.” Dr Williams said: “We are witnessing the breakdown of health care systems and water supply, on top of the ravages of cholera in many cities and towns. The continued state aggression towards civil society is unacceptable, most recently against the few doctors that remain in the country to serve an increasingly sick and desperate population. Outside pressure is more necessary than ever” to achieve change in Zimbabwe.” Read it all in The Church of England Newspaper.