The Insider

The United States piled pressure on the African Union to resolve the Zimbabwe crisis because it did not believe that President Robert Mugabe could be a credible power-sharing partner.

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Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga urged the African Union to send troops to Zimbabwe to end the humanitarian crisis in the country or allow the United Nations to do so.

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South African archbishop Desmond Tutu told a Dutch television station that President Robert Mugabe should be removed by military force if he did not step down.

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Former army commander Solomon Mujuru who had been against President Robert Mugabe’s continued stay at the helm of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front since 2006 was to be provided another chance to challenge the octogenarian at the December party annual conference.

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Malaysia’s senior Under Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responsible for the Americas and the European Union Zainuddin Yahya asked a United States diplomat why Washington had imposed sanctions on a Malaysian doctor, Mahmood Awang Kechik, who served as a physician for President Robert Mugabe.

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Lesotho’s Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili called for President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe to conclude a power-sharing deal with the Movement for Democratic Change because he no longer had a majority in parliament.

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The head of South Africa’s Industrial Development Corporation’s Mining Strategic Business Unit Abel Malinga said the IDC and other private mining companies were looking at investing in Zimbabwe but were being hampered by lack of a political settlement in the country.

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South African President Thabo Mbeki was not likely to resolve the Zimbabwean crisis because President Robert Mugabe viewed him as his junior and would therefore not take any instructions from him, a member of the Inkatha Freedom party Moleeane Skosana told United States diplomats.

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African Consolidated Resources chief executive officer Andrew Cranswick told United States officials on November 6, 2008 that high-ranking Zimbabwean officials including central bank governor Gideon Gono, First Lady Grace Mugabe and Vice-President Joyce Mujuru were looting diamonds from Chiadzwa in Marange.

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