African Civil Society expressed their positions on the Key issues of the 11th African Union Summit Agenda, in Sharm El Sheikh.

During a press conference today CSOs’ representative launched a declaration with forty-three recommendations covering all pressing issues of Africa.

Talking about the situation in Zimbabwe, Mr. Allioune Tine, Secretary General of RADDHO said, “The election situation in Zimbabwe is unacceptable. What is the point of having elections in Africa, if it will always end up by power a sharing system? The Kenyan example should not be a model for Africa.”

The African Union on Monday joined a chorus of international concern and dismay over the withdrawal of Zimbabwe's opposition from a presidential run-off because of severe pre-election violence.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Sunday pulled out of the June 27 poll, saying supporters of his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) would risk their lives by voting because of brutal attacks by supporters of President Robert Mugabe.
Read our press release on June 23 2008

Robert Mugabe has vowed that the opposition Movement for Democratic Change will "never rule Zimbabwe" in a weekend speech that -followed a pledge to arm war veterans and send them to fight in the event of an MDC victory.

The Zimbabwean president's most threatening speech yet came at the funeral of an army general just as Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC leader and his rival in the June 27 run-off, was detained at a roadblock for several hours, and Tendai Biti, party secretary-general, was brought to court to determine whether his arrest last week on treason charges was lawful.
Read our press release on June 13 2008

The African Assembly for the defense of human rights based,in Dakar, called the president of the African Union Commission, Jean Ping, to get involved "personally" in seeking a solution to the violence in the Zimbabwe electoral process.
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