While international organisation are celebrated as providing much needed intervention in war torn parts of Africa, by providing all needed support in the form of food and medicines, this article argues that the presence of these organisations as part of humanitarian aid remained suspect in that they are seen to be perpetuating wars instead of assisting in the stoppage of the wars. The perpetual refusal of humanitarian armed intervention in Zimbabwe in the last deecade is a clinical example. The paper argues that the situation in Zimbabwe did not call for an armed humanitarian intervention at the time. Given the situation in Zimbabwe at the time, any armed humanitarian intervention was to be morally unjustified. The paper bases its argument on the necessary conditions for a just war in terms of the just war theory. The most important question is whether the Zimbabwean situation satisfied all the conditions as laid down in the just cause theory, for it to qualify for an armed humanitarian intervention. Any armed intervention in Zimbabwe would have created a bad precedence and unnecessary conditions for the misuse of Chapter 7 of the United Nations Charter. The latest international debates on the Zimbabwe issue, which are also all based on Chapter 7 of the United Nations Charter serves as bases for the argument.
The paper conclude by stating that any resolution which should have aimed at an armed humanitarian intervention in Zimbabwe would have been meaningless and flawed. An armed humanitarian could only be morally justified iff it is taken as the last resort. All necessary methods of finding a long-lasting peace settlement should be exploited and that Chapter 7 of the United Nations should should not be abused and thus render the whole concept of armed humanitarian intervention meaningless, resulting in the worst environmental destruction to the whole concept of environmental destruction - famine, disease, pollution and the total collapse of the schooling system, resulting in "child soldiers", i.e. perpetuation of suffering and an endless war.
Key words: humanitarianintervention; just war theory; just cause principles; last resort; legitimate authority; environmental justice; child soldiers