The Insider

President Robert Mugabe’s storming out of the meeting with United States Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson on the margins of the African Union Summit was a strategy to undermine Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s perceived authority days after Tsvangirai met with President Barack Obama and European leaders, Tsvangirai’s former spokesman George Sibotshiwe told a United States embassy official in Pretoria.

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President Robert Mugabe was elected chairman of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, four months after the formation of the inclusive government, as the organisation agreed to launch a Customs Union marking an important step toward achieving full economic integration.

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The Movement for Democratic Change favoured a people-driven constitution that was not tied to any pre-existing documents while the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front preferred the Kariba draft which had been agreed by the three parties in 2007 but never adopted.

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There was confusion as to whether Zimbabwe had received a loan of US$950 million from China or not just five months after the signing of the inclusive government.

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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leaders moved the weekly cabinet meeting from Tuesday to Monday to prevent Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai from chairing the meeting.

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Zimbabwe was a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children being trafficked for the purposes of forced labour and sexual exploitation, the United States said in its 2009 Trafficking in Person report.

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The President of the African Development Bank Donald Kaberuka told diplomats in Harare, four months after the formation of the inclusive government, that Zimbabwe was the biggest liability on the AFDB books.

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The European Union may have to revise its sanctions on Zimbabwe imposed a decade ago when it meets on 18 February, two days before they are due to expire.

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