News about Zimbabwe that you can use
Nigeria’s national security adviser Aliyu Mohammed told United States embassy officials in Abuja that President Olusegun Obasanjo had asked President Robert Mugabe to consider retirement during his trip to Harare in January 2002 but Mugabe had said he could only consider retiring after winning the presidential elections.
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Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa told a United States embassy official that although Washington had a great potential to influence events in Zimbabwe it had lost credibility with the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front as an honest broker.
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The United States embassy brushed off reports that Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai had planned to assassinate President Robert Mugabe saying this was just another attempt to discredit Tsvangirai ahead of the presidential elections.
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Lovemore Madhuku was among several demonstrators including leaders of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions that were arrested ahead of a planned march to demonstrate against high taxation and the deteriorating economic situation 10 years ago.
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The United States embassy said the sum required by the Movement for Democratic Change for the transition period, which exceeded US$1 billion, was unrealistic but at least it showed that the party was aware of the enormity of the challenges that it faced.
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Lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa said police had originally wanted to charge about 70 National Constitutional Assembly demonstrators under the Public Order and Security Act but were advised by the attorney-general to change this to contravening the Miscellaneous Offences Act.
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The United States and British governments were so convinced that Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai would win the 2002 presidential elections that they were working on ways to bail out the MDC government, a month before the elections.
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National Constitutional Assembly leader Lovemore Madhuku was among the 180-300 demonstrators arrested in Harare calling for a new constitution, proclaiming: “We are prepared to die for a new democratic constitution”.
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Masvingo Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front provincial supremo Eddison Zvobgo planned to ditch President Robert Mugabe and endorse Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai two weeks before the 2002 presidential elections in exchange for the post of Speaker of Parliament.
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