Mugabe loses arms

Great news: that Chinese ship packed with arms and ammunition has been ordered to return home, after no port could be found to unload its cargo, apparently bound for Zimbabwe.

What started out as action by human rights groups and trade unions in Durban expanded into a tacit agreement between African states not to allow the cargo ship to unload. This is proof, for those who would normally deny it as well as we who already knew it, that trade unions and peaceful protest can achieve great things. While I don't doubt that Mugabe has ready access to plenty of guns, mortars and broken bottles, this union action has undoubtedly denied him weapons he could have used against his politcal opponents.

Oh yeah, and Barça - while not the winning side - played pretty well yesterday. They're by no means through but Manchester Utd have to beat them now to proceed to the final.

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