Zimbabwe Tries Again

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Pho­to: All Africa.com A good friend of mine in Harare said to me three years ago, “please let there be no elec­tions. The peo­ple here fear noth­ing more. We just want to be left alone for long enough to rebuild.” Most peo­ple agree that elec­tions are quin­tes­sen­tial demo­c­ra­t­ic rit­u­als. But faux elec­tions may only make…

Hope not lost in Zimbabwe

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The inter­est­ing news being report­ed by from Bloomberg News is that belea­guered Zim­bab­wean Pres­i­dent Robert Mugabe has agreed to a con­sti­tu­tion­al amend­ment that will cre­ate the posts of a prime min­is­ter and two deputy prime min­is­ters in Zim­bab­we. The plan is that Move­ment for Demo­c­ra­t­ic Change(MDC) leader Mor­gan Tsvan­gi­rai will  become prime min­is­ter, if current…