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Cabinet Swearing-in: Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe pats Tendai Biti's hand soon after he was sworn in as Finance Minister (top pic) and watches as his new Defence Minister and now confirmed heir, Emmerson Mnangagwa, signs his appointment papers Zimbabwe's Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, has told the world to leave Mugabe alone and stop personalising the politics of Zimbabwe. Speaking to the veteran London Guardian Southern African Reporter, Chris McGreal, Tsvangirai "called on the world "to get over" President Robert Mugabe and stop seeing him as the principal problem facing his country" according to a report published by the paper yesterday on its website. Tsvangirai spoke to McGreal yesterday, a couple of hours before he was due at State House to see his ministers sworn in by Mugabe and just over an hour before Bennet was arrested at Charles Prince Airport in Harare. So thoroughly has Tsvangirai been outwitted by Mugabe that he practically spent the ...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu today called for Robert Mugabe to be removed by force if he refuses to step down. Tutu, whom Mugabe has previously called "a bitter little bishop", made the comments during an interview on Dutch television, according to News24 . Asked if Mugabe, who has been in power since independence from Britain in 1980, should be removed by force, Tutu said: "Yes, by force - if they say to him: step down, and he refuses, they must do so militarily," reports the South African news site. Tutu reckons African leaders should tell Mugabe to step down and threaten that is does not do so, they will send him to the Hague. But as others have pointed out, according to international law, the Hague has no jurisdiction on this matter. The courts set up there only deal with Sierra Leone and one other African hot spot. These courts have country-specific mandates, which is why I always have to laugh when I hear people say Mugabe is afraid of going to the Hague to be trie...