Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga saw himself as a mentor for Movement for Democratic change leader and Prime Minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai and urged Tsvangirai not to accept any power-sharing deal unless it gave him proper executive powers.
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Vice-president Joice Mujuru was being aggressively groomed for potential higher office and her faction was grooming its own stable of young Turks who quietly stood on a more reformist platform, former United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell said.
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Central bank governor Gideon Gono raided the foreign currency accounts of several companies to pay US$120 million in arrears to the International Monetary Fund to save the country from being expelled from the organisation.
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Eddison Zvobgo Jnr, who was excluded from contesting his father’s previous seat in Masvingo South through the party’s primary elections, said this was not going to drive him out of politics.
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Masvingo South legislator Walter Mzembi said young members like him, Pearson Mbalekwa and Kindness Paradza, had joined Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front to fight from within but were now frustrated because of their lack of influence.
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The United States welcomed the European Union’s addition of central bank governor Gideon Gono and some state-owned enterprises to its sanctions but urged the EU to consider listing all individuals and entities on its sanctions list.
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Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio told United States ambassador Marcia Bernicat that a carefully crafted text that was not critical could spur a resolution to the Zimbabwe crisis.
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Presidential hopeful Simba Makoni told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee that the United States should try to influence President Robert Mugabe’s closest supporters -the military and Emmerson Mnangagwa- if it wanted a solution to Zimbabwe’s political crisis.
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Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Tendai Biti was adamant that there were no talks between the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front and the two factions of the MDC, two weeks before the signing of the Global Political Agreement which ushered in the inclusive government leaving one to wonder whether he was telling United States embassy officials the actual situation on the ground or what they wanted to hear.
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Results of the South African national census released yesterday could open up a Pandora’s Box. The results say there are only 605 416 Zimbabweans in the country.
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