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Pay Up Whitey : Obama Pledges $73 Million To Negro-Wrecked Zimbabwe
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Posted by Robert Ransdell on: 2009-06-21 23:17:38
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President Obama announced today that the United States will provide $73 million in aid to Zimbabwe, saying the economically-wracked nation has made progress since Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai entered a power-sharing arrangement with longtime President Robert Mugabe four months ago.
"We've seen progress from the prime minister," Obama said, after meeting with Tsvangirai in the Oval Office.
The $73 million in assistance will not be going to the government but directly to services for citizens, Obama said, because "we continue to be concerned about consolidating democracy, human rights and rule of law."Obama renewed sanctions against Zimbabwe in March, in an effort to press Mugabe into making changes to improve human rights.
Tsvangirai's visit to the White House came as part of his weeks-long tour of capitals in Europe and the United States to raise money to help rebuild his tattered country. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/06/12/obama_pledges_73_million_to_zi.html?wprss=44
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News Source: NAN
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