WikiLeaks Africa: the gospel according to the Americans.
New African › Nbr. 2011, January 2011
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WikiLeaks Africa: the gospel according to the Americans.
On 28 November 2010, WikiLeaks, the website founded by Julian Assange, began publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain. The documents give people around the world an unprecedented insight into the US government's foreign activities--the contradictions between America's public persona and what it says behind closed doors. The cables, which date from 1966 to the end of February 2010, contain confidential communications between 274 American embassies across the world and the State Department in Washington DC. WikiLeaks intend to release the cables in stages over the next few months.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Here, New African has selected a sample of the already released cables pertaining to Africa to give an insight into how the Americans really think about Africa and its leaders. For purposes of space, we have abridged some of the cables without editing them--in order to keep them in their raw form as much as possible. We have grouped them under country headings. In the coming months, we will keep readers updated on the world of American diplomacy as WikiLeaks releases more cables on Africa. In the meantime, the release of the cables has so rattled the American and other governments that Julian Assange has spent time in solitary confinement in a British prison pending an extradition trial in London for allegedly raping two women in Sweden. He had just been granted bail by the time we were going to press. Please sit back and have a peep into American thinking on Africa. Zimbabwe Classified by: Ambassador Christopher W. Dell From: American Embassy, Harare Sent: 12 July 2007 To be declassified: 12 July 2017 Subject: The end is nigh 1. Having said my piece repeatedly over the last three years, I won't offer a lengthy prescription for our Zimbabwe policy. My views can be stated very simply as stay the course and prepare for change. Our policy is working and it's helping to drive change here. What is required is simply the grit, determination and focus to see this through, Then, when the changes finally come we must be ready to move quickly to help consolidate the new dispensation. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2. Robert Mugabe has survived for so long because he is more clever [sic] and more ruthless than any other politician in Zimbabwe. To give the devil his due, he is a brilliant tactician and has long thrived on his ability to abruptly change the rules of the game, radicalise the political dynamic and force everyone else to react to his agenda. However, he is fundamental...See the full content of this document
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