News about Zimbabwe that you can use
The United States embassy in Harare asked that Sikhanyiso Ndlovu’s wife Rose Jaele be added to both the Zimbabwe sanctions and the Zimbabwe financial sanctions lists in response to the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s victory in the March 2005 elections and the government’s Operation Murambatsvina.
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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front deputy political commissar Sikhanyiso Ndlovu said members of the party were so disgruntled with President Robert Mugabe that he asked whether the United States government could fund the creation of a prestigious educational foundation and support Mugabe to head it so that he could step down.
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The leader of the main faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Morgan Tsvangirai wanted to find his former secretary-general Welshman Ncube “something” to do outside MDC politics such as a visiting professorship at a United States university because he had become the stumbling block to the re-unification of the two MDC factions.
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The secretary-general of the Movement for Democratic Change Welshman Ncube and vice-president Gibson Sibanda who led the split of the party after deciding to contest the senate elections against the orders of party leader Morgan Tsvangirai both said they would not contest leadership of the splinter party because it needed a Shona leader with national appeal.
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ZANU-PF secretary for external affairs was very dodgy in the run-up to the 2002 party conference as United States embassy officials scrambled to get party officials to disclose whether the issue of President Robert Mugabe’s succession would be discussed or not.
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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was reported to have imported voters and the youth militia to win the Insiza by-election.
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The Arthur Mutambara faction of the Movement for Democratic Change brushed off its loss in the Budiriro by-elections but went ahead to ask for assistance from the United States to strengthen its institutions.
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Movement for Democratic Change secretary general Tendai Biti told United States embassy officials that Emmerson Mnangagwa and Solomon Mujuru were each courting Morgan Tsvangirai with Mnangagwa even prepared to subordinate himself to Tsvangirai.
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Vice-President Joseph Msika and party chairman John Nkomo told former Masvingo Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front supremo Eddison Zvobgo that the only solution to Zimbabwe’s crisis was for President Robert Mugabe to go.
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President Robert Mugabe respected and feared Solomon Mujuru because the former army commander still retained the loyalty of many senior military commanders.
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