Aldo dellariccia biography

“I love life,” says the European Union Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Aldo Dell&#;Ariccia.

For any Western diplomat thrust into the rough and tumble of Zimbabwean politics, that appears to be an optimistic statement indeed.

Imagine a situation where everything you do in life is related to what you do at election time.

The predominant emotion in such a system is fear and that is the situation Dell&#;Ariccia found when he came to Zimbabwe towards the end of

There are usually two choices for all foreign envoys working in Zimbabwe: either you toe the line of the discredited regime of President Robert Mugabe and Zanu (PF), ignoring daily human rights violations, theft of public funds and mismanagement, or you choose to do a professional job, pointing out wrongs.

Dell&#;Ariccia, it seems, chose to do a thorough job of his assignment to Harare, currently a minefield because of the politics of division prevailing.

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