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 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan described the situation in Zimbabwe as intolerable on Sunday, and criticized African leaders who cling to power.
He also made a veiled reference to the crisis in western Sudan, saying "national sovereignty can no longer be used as a shield by governments that massacre their own people."
Annan was delivering the fifth annual Nelson Mandela lecture — one of a number events marking the 89th birthday on July 18 of the anti-apartheid hero and former South African president.
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