BBC: Mugabe crisis 'infecting' Africa
The crisis in Zimbabwe is "infecting the whole of southern Africa", UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said after visiting refugees.
On a visit to Johannesburg, S Africa, he said victims of political repression were fleeing there in their thousands.
He said it was now "imperative" there was a new government in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe was declared the winner of a one-candidate run-off election, amid reports of the violent intimidation of his opponents.
After meeting some of the 2,000 refugees who have taken refuge in the Central Methodist Church in downtown Johannesburg, Mr Miliband said: "This is now a crisis infecting the whole of southern Africa and one that is a man-made tragedy from the top of the Zimbabwean regime."
He said: "No-one who meets the people here could do anything other than redouble their efforts to secure international consensus that the Mugabe regime is not a legitimate representation of the will of the people of Zimbabwe." …
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