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.”