Word: tsvangirai
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...been nine months since Mugabe formed a coalition government with his chief rival Morgan Tsvangirai, but Harare is not yet able to provide adequate health facilities for its citizens. Most residents in the capital and its environs depend mainly on the U.N. and other international agencies. Tsitsi Singizi, a UNICEF official, says her organization is not anticipating huge deaths as was the case last year. "After it was realized that cholera was inevitable this year, there has been a lot of planning and preparing ahead of the rainy season. You cannot say with certainty but [cholera] is not likely...
ARTHUR MUTAMBARA, Zimbabwe's Deputy Prime Minister, castigating President Robert Mugabe after Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai announced on Oct. 16 that he would boycott the country's unity government...
...boycott the unity government now calls into question Tsvangirai's decision to enter into the arrangement in the first place. Since the deal was signed, Mugabe and ZANU-PF have spared no effort to sabotage it. The party has stymied the formation of a government by introducing endless procedural objections and by simply not turning up to meetings. Growing MDC impatience finally boiled over on Oct. 15 with the re-arrest of Roy Bennett, the party's treasurer and a white farmer, on charges of possessing weapons with the intention to commit sabotage, banditry and insurgency. But even here, Tsvangirai...
...Most significant, for all of his protestations about the other side's lack of integrity and his vows to govern alone, Tsvangirai has, in the end, given Mugabe exactly what he wants - sole power over the government again. As this has been Mugabe's aim all along, Tsvangirai's move is undeniably self-defeating. Karin Alexander, a Zimbabwe expert at the Institute for Democracy in Africa in Pretoria, says the MDC is giving Mugabe the opportunity to cast it as the spoiler of the peace deal. She adds, however, that the move might be seen as a tactic to impel...
...said they didn't care. Mugabe spokesman George Charamba told the Sunday Mail in Harare that rather than worrying about contortions inside the MDC, Mugabe was spending his time arranging scholarships for students and welcoming soccer players in Zimbabwe for a regional tournament. "As for this needless excitement from [Tsvangirai's party], I suppose the President will find time [to deal with it], when the right time comes," Charamba said...