The Insider

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gonohad become the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s poster boy for corruption and financial mismanagement, former United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee said barely a month after the swearing in of the inclusive government.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was expected to attend President Robert Mugabe’s lavish 85th birthday party in what was believed to be an attempt to strengthen their long-frayed relationship.

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President Robert Mugabe has been at the helm of the country since February 1980. During the first decade he was revered and honoured as one of Africa’s foremost leaders. His star started fading during the second decade. In the third decade he became one of the most hated leaders in the world, sometimes only second to Saddam Hussein. But he has survived it all and is into his fourth decade as leader. Our initial search showed that there are 756 cables on him. Here are the first 503.

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President Robert Mugabe agreed to rescind the appointments of board members to six media parastatals made by Information Minister Webster Shamu after prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai argued that the appointments violated the Global Political Agreement, Gorden Moyo, who was Tsvangirai’s advisor, said.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti has been playing yoyo with Zimbabweans throughout this week. First he said that the country only had $217 in its account last week. Then he backtracked and said the country was not broke. Some$30 million had flowed into treasury coffers.

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President Robert Mugabe outmanoeuvred the two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change in naming the new government because his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front ended up with more ministers than the two MDC factions.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai dispatched Minister of State Gorden Moyo to London as head of delegation to appeal to Zimbabweans based in the United Kingdom to invest in Zimbabwe.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai told President Robert Mugabe that his Movement for Democratic Change would pull out of the inclusive government if Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front sabotaged the constitution making process.

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