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Zimbabwe Police and Military Set Up Checkpoints
Zimbabwean Police and Soldiers with Army Trucks and Water Cannons have dispersed across Zimbabwe including Harare in preparation for a general strike. Meanwhile, the United States and Great Britain has asked the United Nations to take up the cause of Zimbabwe. In reality, the United Nations has become a joke because it did not intervene during the Khmer Rouge Genocide of Cambodia and the Rwandan Genocide. Again, NP will be notified of any latest development.
In other news, the Zimbabwe Independent has announced that the ZEC [Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has disbanded its Command Centre on the 10th of April 2008 with no results forthcoming. The Financial Gazette of Zimbabwe has announced that Mugabe is "clinging to power". It has been known that power corrupts absolutly.
SOURCE:
Reuters.com: "Zimbabwe Police Set Up Checkpoints Ahead of Strike"
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSWEB159520080414
Reuters.com: "US, Britain wants UN Council to Tackle Zimbabwe"
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN1439288820080414
Zimbabwe Independent: "Command Centre Dismantled With No Results"
Financial Gazette: "Mugabe Clings To Power"
http://www.fingaz.co.zw/story.aspx?stid=2531



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at 04:29 on April 15th, 2008
According to the BBC News Website, there has been a business as usual in Harare in spite of the calls for the strike. There are people interviewed in the streets who have commented "on the need to work" while others stated that they did not know a strike existed. Meanwhile, the MDC [Movement for Democratic Change] has implemented a five year plan to rebuild the country economically. Zimbabwe has become a broken country which needs the cooperation of others and the will of its people to move forward once Mugabe leaves the scene.
SOURCE:
BBC News: "Zimbabwe's Economy Flounders Amid Election Confusion"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7346042.stm
BBC News: "Muted Response to Zimbabwe Strike"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7347705.stm