Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Thursday he was "fairly satisfied" with talks with President Robert Mugabe’s party to end a political crisis, and said a Monday, August 4 deadline was "not inflexible". Tsvangirai said talks would resume as planned on Sunday with Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party. Power-sharing negotiations began last week under international pressure after Mugabe’s unopposed re-election in a poll dismissed around the world as a sham. The talks adjourned on Tuesday, leaving little time to complete them by the August 4 deadline set out in the framework for negotiations signed on July 21. "Two weeks may appear too short, but it is not inflexible and I am sure that the facilitation will adjust as progress moves forward," Tsvangirai said. South African President Thabo Mbeki is mediating between the opposing camps, whose political struggle has exacerbated an economic crisis that has brought hyperinflation and food shortages and forced millions into...
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Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai urged the world on Monday to help end a “man-made” humanitarian crisis which has left hundreds of people dead in a cholera epidemic.
The spreading disease has underlined the collapse of the once relatively prosperous country, where deadlock between veteran President Robert Mugabe and Tsvangirai over a power sharing deal has delayed any hope of rescuing the ruined state.
“As I speak our country is consumed by a man-made h... more
EDITORIAL - WITH a huff and a puff, former president Thabo Mbeki has written a sharply worded (but extremely long) letter to the leader of the Zimbabwean opposition, Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), chastising him for failing, thus far, to get into the spirit of the Mbeki-brokered peace deal in the country.... more
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon held secret talks with President Robert Mugabe today, asking the Zimbabwean leader to conclude a power-sharing deal with opposition parties. ... more
Police and soldiers from President Robert Mugabe’s presidential guard engaged in running battles through the streets of the capital, Harare, on 1 December.... more
Stop Shaking Hands! From: messagefromafrica.com Post Date: 2008-12-01 07:06:21
Much of the Zimbabwe capital, Harare, is without water, state media reports, at a time of a cholera outbreak. Water was cut because of a shortage of purification chemicals, The Herald newspaper quotes water authority officials as saying. At least 425 people have died in recent months from cholera - a disease spread by contaminated water. Health Minister David Parirenyatwa said people should stop shaking hands to prevent the disease spreading. “I want to stress the issue of shaking hands. ... more
The trend toward fewer conflicts reported by peace researchers since the early 1990s now seems to have been broken. This is shown in the latest annual report “States in Armed Conflict,” from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program at the Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research. The findings worry the researchers. The Middle East is the region where peace initiatives are most conspicuous in their absence. Since the most conflict-ridden years in the early 1990s, a continuous dec... more
One of Iraq’s most powerful Shiite politicians urged the government there on Friday to curb the expanding influence of the country’s so-called "Awakening Councils," largely Sunni groups who have been financed by the United States to fight Al Qaeda and other militants in the country. The emergence of the councils earlier this year has been instrumental in curbing attacks on US troops in places like Anbar Province. The United States has been pushing the Shiite-dominated Iraqi governmen... more
Russia will use its clout at the UN to block Western plans to cement Kosovo as an independent state, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a newspaper interview published on Friday. Kosovo’s majority Albanian population is expected to declare unilateral independence from Serbia within weeks, and the European Union, United States and other states are likely to recognize this. But Mr. Lavrov warned Russia would work through the United Nations to block the steps Western powers are planning a... more
Opinions differ as to precisely what constitutes a failed or failing state. However, when a government has lost practical control over much of the national territory and when its authority to make collective decisions is rejected by large parts of the population, then it is clear things are going badly wrong. This is the point Bolivia reached in 2007. Conditions look set to worsen in 2008. Since becoming president in January 2006, Evo Morales has embarked on what he describes as a "democratic an... more
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