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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai today said the inclusive government remains dysfunctional but he added that this was perhaps because parties to the government sought to engage in and preoccupied themselves with more issues that a coalition government could reasonably deal with.

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We now have 600 Wikileaks cables on one page, though we have published over 700. Here is the line-up. To read more cables use our index where cables are indexed by name.

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Although Zimbabwe was experiencing its worst decade between 2000 and 2009 with its economy shrinking by 40 percent, the country lost US$4 billion during that period through illicit flows according to a report just released by Global Financial Integrity.

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Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs was reported by the United States embassy in Harare to be returning to his roots in intelligence when he was appointed Minister of State Security in July 2000.

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President Robert Mugabe left for Lubumbashi on 12 July 2000 to meet Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila to urge him to keep the peace talks on track.

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Deputy Foreign Minister Nicholas Goche was called away on 4^th of July 2000 to deal with a group of unruly war veterans in Bindura, an area he did not represent, prompting the United States embassy in Harare to conclude that this was the Zimbabwean equivalent of “diplomatic flu”.

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Former Finance Minister Simba Makoni told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan that President Robert Mugabe was not interested in accommodating the Movement for Democratic Change but in crushing it.

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Several journalists suspected to be Voice of America’s Studio 7 stringers were fired by the state media as well as by the private media which were reportedly under pressure from Information Minister Jonathan Moyo.

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The government was so desperate at the beginning of 2004 that it asked the United Nations for assistance to organise the 2005 parliamentary elections.

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The Administrative Court once again allowed the Daily News, banned on 23 September, to resume publication but riot police prevented the paper from publishing.

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