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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>US Senator for Kentucky Rand Paul has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa is a worse authoritarian ruler than his predecessor, the late Robert Mugabe.<\/p>\n

In his 2020 Festivus Report, Senator Paul said Mnangagwa has a dangerously low tolerance for dissent and unlike Mugabe who relied on the militia and police to thwart protests, Mnangagwa uses the military. He wrote:<\/p>\n

In 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa came to power promising to be a reformer, despite having gained power through a military-sponsored coup.<\/p>\n

Maybe he\u2019s true to his word, and the U.S. paying non-governmental organisations to monitor the 2023 Zimbabwean election will help instil democratic confidence in the people of Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

But the evidence suggests otherwise.<\/p>\n

Despite attempting to present himself on the international stage as a stark change from authoritarianism, notwithstanding the 2018 election, President Mnangagwa\u2019s domestic record appears to be just as bad as Mugabe\u2019s.<\/p>\n

There is one clear variation between the men that has made itself apparent in the three years since Mnangagwa took over.<\/p>\n

Mnangagwa tends to turn to the military (which helped him initially gain power) to keep the population in check, rather than depend on militias and police like Mugabe.<\/p>\n

It seems as though this differentiation is a bit of a distinction without a difference.<\/p>\n

Senator Paul suggested that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) is wasting US$10 million by paying the money to non-governmental organizations to monitor the 2023 Zimbabwean election. He added:<\/p>\n

Yet Uncle Sam wants to spend American taxpayer dollars to determine if the upcoming elections there are, in fact, rigged.<\/p>\n

But if the U.S. doesn\u2019t pay for people to observe the \u2018election\u2019 to take place in 2023, how will we know how bad the situation is?<\/p>\n

Well, perhaps we could rely on the European Union, which sent election observers in 2018 and will likely do so again in 2023, or others with a more vested stake in the outcome rather than duplicating or triplicating efforts.<\/p>\n

Will it all make any difference? Decades and decades of charges against Mugabe\u2019s elections did not cause him to become more democratic, nor did they drive him from office.<\/p>\n

So why is the State Department spending $10 million so it can have something to waive around when it ultimately points its finger at Zimbabwe\u2019s leadership and says, Shame on you?<\/p>\n

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