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Tsvangirai risks all as he does deal with Mugabe on sharing power
Zimbabwe’s Opposition took the momentous but hugely risky decision yesterday to enter a unity government with President Mugabe’s Zanu (PF) party, whose brutal and misguided policies have brought the country to the brink of ruin.
Under pressure from South Africa – but to the consternation of some Western governments – Morgan Tsvangirai won the approval of his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to take a step that could conceivably mark the beginning of the end of Mr Mugabe’s 28-year-rule but could equally well hand him a much needed lifeline.
“I’m doing what’s best for the people of Zimbabwe,” Mr Tsvangirai told hundreds of jubilant supporters who had gathered outside the MDC headquarters in central Harare.
“He has walked into a trap,” a Western official countered. “Mugabe is not serious about this . . . He will honour as little as he can.”
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5622266.ece
Robert Mugabe has whip hand in coalition of convenience
ROBERT MUGABE, the Zimbabwean president, will have the power to dismiss his arch-opponent from a government of national unity even though the two men have agreed to join forces in an effort to rescue the country’s ruined economy.
Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), who will become prime minister, could be sacked for incompetence under the terms of a deal that leaves the 84-year-old president firmly in control.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5627536.ece
Is morgan Tsvangi rai set to be the latest victim of a regime that kills all it touches?
HAVING WATCHED his fellow Zimbabweans being murdered, tortured, starved and condemned to death from disease by Robert Mugabe, while millions of others fled the country, Morgan Tsvangirai has taken the biggest gamble of his life and entered coalition government with the man accused of subjecting Zimbabweans to slow genocide.
\"If you walk into a lion's den and meet a lion, you should not complain that you met a lion,\" Tendai Dumbutshena, former editor of the now-defunct Zimbabwe Times, warned Tsvangirai. He added that, once they are inside the unity government: \"Mugabe will shoot Tsvangirai and the MDC from short range.\"
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http://www.sundayherald.com/search/display.var.2486139.0.is_morgan_tsvangi_rai_set_to_be_the_latest_victim_of_a_regime_that_kills_all_it_touches.php
Zimbabwe abandons its currency
Zimbabweans will be allowed to conduct business in other currencies, alongside the Zimbabwe dollar, in an effort to stem the country's runaway inflation.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7859033.stm
Zimbabwe's starving millions face halving of rations as UN cash dries up
World Food Programme to cut core maize ration from 10kg to 5kg a month – or just 600 calories a day – for 70% of the population
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/29/zimbabwe-starving-food-aid-cut
Zim unemployment soars to 94 percent
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Out of the country's 12 million people, only 480,000 have formal jobs, down from 3,6 million in 2003, the report said.
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http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=552&fArticleId=4816380
Cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe world's worst in 14 years: World Health Organization
Zimbabwe's worsening cholera epidemic has killed 3,028 people out of the more than 57,000 infected and is the world's worst in 14 years, the World Health Organization said yesterday.
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http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=1230779
MDR-TB Outbreak Could Take Zimbabwe by Surprise
Zimbabwe’s public health system does not have the capacity to identify cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis ( MDR-TB ) but conditions in the country point to significant drug-resistance problems, doctors attending a recent National TB Capacity Building and Policy Dialogue Platform meeting in Harare said.
The National TB Co-ordinator, Dr Charles Sandy, said it was likely that a number of MDR-TB cases had already occurred in Zimbabwe but that they had not been identified because the only national TB reference laboratory in Bulawayo was not able to do so.
“We have cases of MDR and XDR (extensively drug-resistant) TB for sure but we have a challenge because our TB laboratory reference, which is supposed to diagnose those kinds of tests, is not able to do so,” Sandy said.
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http://www.thezimbabwestandard.com/local/19635-mdr-tb-outbreak-could-take-zimbabwe-by-surprise.html
Mliswa urges last-minute farm invasions
HARARE – Fresh farm invasions have been witnessed in Mashonaland West province as frustrated Zanu-PF supporters try to grab pieces of land before the inception of an all inclusive government by Zanu PF and MDC in two weeks time.
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http://www.thezimbabwetimes.com/?p=10703
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