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…

Africa’s New Era Continues with Gains in Peace and Democracy

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In the world of fast-paced twen­­ty-four-hour news, to craft a pow­er­ful news head­line means the head­line should stand out and draw read­ers’ atten­tion amid a pletho­ra of sto­ries from all direc­tions. It’s a the­o­ry that applies to print and tele­vi­sion news–when pow­er­ful head­line news, embod­ied in sud­den peace agree­ments, rebel sur­ren­ders, may­hem, and con­flict, easily…