News about Zimbabwe that you can use
United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer said Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai had won the 29 march 2008 elections. She said she based this on a wealth of post-election tallies by independent observers.
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President Robert Mugabe’s top lieutenants, Nicholas Goche, Patrick Chinamasa and Emmerson Mnangagwa were at one time interested in a government of national unity with an interim leader who was not Mugabe, according to a cable released by Wikileaks.
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Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa told the extraordinary summit of the Southern African Development Community that was supposed to address the Zimbabwe crisis what the United States and Britain wanted him to say.
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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee met Tanzania’s ambassador to Zimbabwe Adadi Rajabu, 10 days after the 2008 elections, to ask if Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete could talk top President Robert Mugabe, including an exit strategy.
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Japan, which had invited African heads of State, including President Robert Mugabe, for the Tokyo International Conference on African Development, said it was making it clear to Mugabe that he would have a hard time if he came for the conference.
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Rumours swirled in the first week after the 2008 elections with some reports saying President Robert Mugabe had won the elections and others saying the Movement for Democratic Change had won and was negotiating a settlement under which Mugabe would step down.
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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai was surrounded by paparazzi like a rock star when he attended the extraordinary summit of the Southern African Development Community in Lusaka which was supposed to discuss the Zimbabwe crisis after the indecisive 2008 elections.
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Zambia’s Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs Tens Kapoma told United States ambassador to Zambia Carmen Martinez that President Robert Mugabe had “chickened out” of the Southern African Development Community extraordinary summit in Lusaka that was to look into the Zimbabwe crisis.
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Former Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa told United States ambassador to Zambia Carmen Martinez that President Robert Mugabe had refused to take his call inviting him to an extraordinary meeting of the Southern African Development Community to discuss the Zimbabwean crisis but he was certain that Mugabe would pitch up.
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