The Insider

United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson expressed concern about President Robert Mugabe’s possible successors and seemed to be only comfortable with Vice-President Joice Mujuru.

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Vice President John Nkomo was of little value to President Robert Mugabe because he was “unquestionably loyal to Mugabe” and had no support from Matebeleland.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was supposed to join President Robert Mugabe’s delegation to the United Nations general assembly in September 2009, but it is not clear whether he did so or not.

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A British Broadcasting Corporation correspondent who had been allowed to work in Zimbabwe with her team said the government still wanted to control reporting activities and two known Central Intelligence Organisation handlers were present all the time.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti told United States embassy officials that the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was too preoccupied with the succession of President Robert Mugabe to engage rationally in the political process.

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Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and Media and Information Minister Webster Shamu were implicated in a poaching operation by a Chinese national who was caught with six rhino horns.

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President Robert Mugabe told United States Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Johnnie Carson that he was astonished that Tourism and Hospitality Minister Walter Mzembi was not invited to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s meeting with United States President Barack Obama.

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Democratic Republic of Congo Minister for International and Regional Cooperation Raymond Tshibanda told a United States embassy official that although the problems facing Zimbabwe’s two major political players in the inclusive government were complex, neither side wanted the process to fail.

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