The African Union's new ambassador for Southern Africa is none other than Robert Mugabe. The AU summit held in Mozambique at the weekend provided an opportunity for Africa to show a commitment to its noble ideals. But it ended on an anticlimax, some observed, with no discussion on the political situation in strife-torn Zimbabwe. While some opposition politicians were "galled" by the election of Mugabe as one of the AU's five vice-chairpersons, others declared themselves "content".