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 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Zimbabwe's impeccably dressed President Robert Mugabe can't shop at Savile Row and Harrods anymore. The security minister's sons were thrown out of an Australian university. The foreign bank accounts of dozens of top officials have been frozen.
What else can be done to pressure Zimbabwe's autocratic ruler? Not much, diplomats and analysts say. The West is avoiding broad sanctions that could hurt already economically distressed Zimbabweans, and there is no sentiment in Africa or elsewhere to use military power.
"We have worked closely with many in the international community to try to bring pressure on the government in Zimbabwe to change its ways. That has not had much effect," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack concedes.
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