Posts by Charles Rukuni

Georges Tadonki was virtually unknown in Zimbabwe when he worked for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Harare. He came into the country on 24 March 2008, five days before the national elections. By January 2009 he had lost favour with his bosses and was told on 27 January that his contract would not be renewed because of his performance. During that short period he had already clashed with the United Nations country representative Agostinho Zacarias who also headed the United Nations Development Programme.

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The signing of the Global Political Agreement by Zimbabwe’s three key political parties -the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change may have saved Zimbabwe from tougher European Union sanctions according to a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change may be using the constitutional drafting process to delay elections because it has realised that though it won more seats in the 2008 elections than its main rival the Zimbabwe African People Union- Patriotic Front most people do not share its views on the new constitution. 

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Rwandan leader Paul Kagame was warned eight years ago not to go the Robert Mugabe way when he won his second term of office as the country’s president but last year he contested the elections and won another seven-year term.

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