Monitor Online "Between now and next Saturday when the European-Africa summit begins in Lisbon, Portugal, another two thousand innocent Zimbabweans, mainly children will have died from simple diseases and malnutrition, thanks to punitive EU sanctions. On November 26, the UN Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) issued a statement entitled “Zimbabwe: No rest for the dead”, which said “The mortuary was designed to hold 60 corpses but now has a daily average of 250”. By international definition, this is genocide. Article 2 of the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention of Genocide defines “genocide” as any act which destroys in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group [by] “deliberately inflicting on the group, conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”."
The World Cup football tournament kicks off in one week, and host South Africa is busy putting on the finishing touches. But not everyone is looking forward to the tournament. Authorites in cities including Cape Town are being accused of clearing the poor from the streets - to create a good impression for visiting fans. Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa has more.