No Rest for the Weary in Zimbabwe

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In yet anoth­er set­back to bring­ing last­ing peace to Zim­bab­we, Reuters News Ser­vice report­ed Mon­day that there is a dead­lock in nego­ti­a­tions between the rul­ing ZANU PF par­ty and the oppo­si­tion Move­ment for Demo­c­ra­t­ic Change(MDC) on the terms of imple­men­ta­tion of the Sep­tem­ber 2008 pow­er-shar­ing agree­ment. Both sides are cur­rent­ly at a region­al sum­mit to…

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…