African criticism of the situation in Zimbabwe, and Mr Mugabe, is growing.
The telegraph

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe must step down or be removed by force for "destroying a beautiful country".
By Sebastien Berger and Peta Thornycroft in Harare

"I think now that the world must say: 'You have been responsible with your cohorts for gross violations, and you are going to face indictment in The Hague unless you step down'," Mr Tutu told Dutch current affairs TV programme Nova.

Asked if Mr Mugabe, who has been in power since independence from Britain in 1980, should be removed by force, he said: "Yes, by force - if they say to him: step down, and he refuses, they must do so militarily."

Mr Tutu, a Nobel peace prize winner who was one of the continent's leading voices against the former apartheid regime in South Africa, said the African Union or the Southern African Development Community (SADC) would have the capacity to remove Mr Mugabe, 84.

Kenya's prime minister Raila Odinga, called for the continent to take action. “It’s time for African governments to take decisive action to push him out of power,” he told the BBC.

Mr Odinga is widely believed to have won last year's Kenyan presidential election but settled for a power-sharing deal himself after his rival was declared the victor and violence broke out. He has since become one of Africa's most vocal supporters of democracy and a hardened critic of Mr Mugabe...

In South Africa the government said it was obliged to help the humanitarian crisis.
"There are very clear signs people are beginning to die of starvation,” said its spokesman Themba Maseko. “South Africa and SADC (the Southern African Development Community) can’t just fold our arms.”

Kenya PM calls for Mugabe removal (BBC)

Power-sharing in Zimbabwe is dead and it is time for African governments to oust President Robert Mugabe, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said.

After talks with Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in Nairobi, Mr Odinga told the BBC that Mr Mugabe had no interest in sharing power.

Zimbabwe has been in political deadlock over a unity coalition government deal, following disputed polls this year.It is also in the grip of a cholera outbreak that has claimed 565 lives.

State media meanwhile reported the arrest of 10 soldiers who allegedly ran amok ithe capital Harare on Monday because a bank had no money to pay their wages. Six other soldiers accused of looting last week had also been held.

"Power-sharing is dead in Zimbabwe and will not work with a dictator who does not really believe in power-sharing," Mr Odinga told the BBC.

The BBC's Karen Allen in Nairobi says the Kenya prime minister had also held talks with Jacob Zuma, president of South Africa's ruling African National Congress party.

Mr Zuma declared a new alliance between his party and the Kenyan leader, designed to elevate the Zimbabwe issue, she says.

Mr Odinga said that if Mr Mugabe were isolated, he would have no choice but to quit. "Therefore it's time for African governments to take decisive action to push him out of power."