London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Monday called on African leaders to make it "absolutely clear" to Robert Mugabe that there had to be a "new government" in Zimbabwe. Brown, in an appeal to member states of the African Union (AU) meeting in Egypt, said: "I think the message that is coming from the whole world is that the so-called elections will not be recognized."
As AU members were having talks with Mugabe in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh Monday, Brown said: "A new government has got to be brought in."
If that happened, Britain would stand ready to help Zimbabwe to rebuild.
"I think what we are now looking for is that a combination of African countries in the African Union, working I hope with the United Nations, sending envoys to Zimbabwe to see what progress can be made, to see what the way forward is," said Brown.
