Mugabe 'a plague on Zimbabwe'
Updated on 08 December 2008
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has slammed Robert Mugabe as a plague upon Zimbabwe even worse than the devastating cholera outbreak which has taken hold across the country.
Speaking after EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels extended travel and financial sanctions to include more of President Mugabe's closest political circle, Mr Miliband said: "We have had good discussions about Zimbabwe, and there is real unity about the fact that, while the disease of cholera has got the headlines, the real disease at the heart of Zimbabwe is the misrule of the Mugabe regime."
He said the ruinous Mugabe regime was being increasingly exposed to the international community and it was now the job of the EU to ensure humanitarian aid gets through to the people who need it.
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