Zimbabwe: Europe Extends Sanctions on Mugabe Elite

9 December 2008
allAfrica.com

Europe has expanded travel and financial sanctions against members of what the British foreign ministry calls President Robert Mugabe's "closest political circle."

The monthly meeting of European Union foreign ministers announced on Monday that it had resolved to extend restrictive measures to more individuals who had been "actively engaged in violence or human rights infringements."

In a statement issued after the meeting, the office of the British foreign secretary, David Miliband, said 11 "Mugabe followers" had been added to a list of more than 100 political aides and senior officials already subject to sanctions.

Miliband said that the meeting displayed "real unity about the fact that, while the disease of cholera has got the headlines, the real disease at the heart of Zimbabwe is the misrule of the Mugabe regime."

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