The Insider

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga said Zimbabwean leaders Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe were both willing to negotiate but from different starting points.

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An organisation calling itself Enough Project appealed for international action to make President Robert Mugabe accountable immediately after he had bulldozed the presidential elections run-off after the Movement for Democratic Change candidate Morgan Tsvangirai had pulled out because of violence.

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President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace had agreed to a power-sharing agreement drafted by Econet boss Strive Masiyiwa but with amendments which included an undertaking that Mugabe would serve as president indefinitely.

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Civil society organisations which met in Harare soon after the announcement that the three major political parties in Zimbabwe had agreed on a memorandum of agreement setting the framework for negotiations, which had not yet been signed, called for a transitional government led by a neutral person and rejected a power-sharing arrangement.

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When the three key political parties, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change signed a memorandum of understanding to pave the way for negotiations before South African President Thabo Mbeki it appears the United States embassy’s greatest fear was that the MDC might be swallowed by ZANU-PF like it had done to the Zimbabwe African people’s Union, 20 years earlier.

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Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Tendai Biti said party leader Morgan Tsvangirai was weak and was listening to the wrong people, some of whom were tired of the present situation and favoured what for him was an unacceptable compromise.

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South African President Thabo Mbeki was unlikely to solve the Zimbabwe crisis because President Robert Mugabe regarded him as little more than a “boy” and was going to run circles around him, buying time to destroy the political opposition.

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The United States said it would only accept a Movement for Democratic Change-led government. A ZANU-PF-MDC agreement by itself was not enough.

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Several delegates to the G-8 meeting in Tokyo, a day before the presidential elections run-off in Zimbabwe, were angered at United Nations and European Union violations of the travel ban on President Robert Mugabe and his lieutenants but did not state who the culprits were.

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