CAPE TOWN, July 1, 2008 (AFP) - Robert Mugabe is a liberation struggle hero who has become a hindrance and African leaders should speak out against the veteran Zimbabwean leader, Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Tuesday.

LONDON, June 27, 2008 (AFP) - Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu called on South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki to 'turn the screws' on Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe if he does not step down following Friday's polls.

GENEVA, May 25, 2008 (AFP) - South African Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu will this week visit the Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanun on a fact-finding mission into the deaths of 19 Palestinians killed in a 2006 attack, the UN said Sunday.

JOHANNESBURG, May 19, 2008 (AFP) - South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu pleaded on Monday for an end to xenophobic violence in Johannesburg, recalling the role neighbouring countries played during the fight against apartheid.

BERLIN, May 18, 2008 (AFP) - South African Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu is calling for an international peace force to keep order during next month's presidential run-off election in Zimbabwe.

CAPE TOWN, April 24, 2008 (AFP) - South African Nobel peace prize winner Desmond Tutu on Thursday called for an arms embargo on Zimbabwe in order to avert the escalation of violence in the troubled nation.

LONDON, April 17, 2008 (AFP) - Desmond Tutu, the former Archbishop of Cape Town, will give the 2008 MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture at Lord's Cricket Ground on June 10, organisers Marylebone Cricket Club said Thursday.

CAPE TOWN, April 2, 2008 (AFP) - South African Nobel peace prize winner Desmond Tutu on Wednesday said he hoped Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe would 'step down with dignity' after weekend general elections.

LONDON, April 2, 2008 (AFP) - South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu proposed Wednesday sending an international peacekeeping force to Zimbabwe in the wake of the unresolved presidential elections.

Tutu told the BBC he favoured 'a mixed force of Africans and others' to protect human rights in the beleaguered African country.

LONDON, April 1, 2008 (AFP) - South African Nobel peace prize winner Desmond Tutu said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that he supported any deal that would stave off conflict in Zimbabwe following contested elections.