Barack Hussein Obama pledges to prop up Zimbabwe Govt - offers $73million gift

[Lenny]

Barack Hussein Obama pledges aid for Zimbabwe

President Barack Obama has announced $73m (£44m) in aid for Zimbabwe. The US president was speaking at the White House in Washington, where he met the visiting Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.

Earlier, Zimbabwean Finance Minister Tendai Biti said the country's economy could grow by between 4% and 6% this year. "I think we will be able to achieve a growth rate of at least 6%, although conservatively it will be 4% in 2009," he told journalists. Zimbabwe's economy has been shrinking for years. It contracted by 6.1% in 2007, according to the International Monetary Fund.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8098334.stm

[Eldritch]

Great! Now Mugabe can buy a few more palaces and mansions for himself and his homeboys.

[Groenewolf]

Intresting choice for the socalled messiah to give money to :coffee:. And it is highly doubtfull that he will use that gift as a diplomatic leverage to improve the condition of the white farmers.

[Psychonaut]

What a brilliant idea! Especially while we're in a recession, have a record deficit and increasing unemployment levels! Let's just give away tax dollars willy nilly!

[finironcross]

The negroes are intellectually inferior. We've been shoveling money into Afreaka for a good 50 years or so now, billions and billions of them. Let's give them some more!

[Atlas]

Great! Now Mugabe can buy a few more palaces and mansions for himself and his homeboys.

Pretty much and let the people die of starvation and AIDS. We know the African "elites" anyway.

I hope someday the Africans will wake up and go beahead their tyran That would be quite funny. Especially Khadafi and Mugabe.

[Cato]

Obongo may as well have made the check out to Thugabe himself.