Zimbabwe: SADC's big headache
If the Southern African Development Community (SADC) "wished to be taken seriously" it would have to declare Robert Mugabe's presidential claim illegitimate, a regional analyst told IRIN.
The United States and the European Union have condemned Mugabe's one-man presidential poll as a farce, but none of SADC's 14 member states have yet declared a position on the validity of Mugabe's presidential claim. So far the only African leader to endorse the result is Gabon's President Omar Bongo, who has ruled the oil-producing state since 1967 and is the continent's longest serving head of state.
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