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Co-Minister of Home Affairs Giles Mutsekwa vowed to assert his authority over police commissioner Augustine Chihuri whom he said controlled the police while the minister had traditionally taken a back seat.

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Giles Mutsekwa, the Movement for Democratic Change’s secretary for defence, was named co-Minister of Home Affairs when the inclusive government set up its first cabinet.

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Movement for Democratic Change secretary for defence Giles Mutsekwa said the so-called armed forces that had taken over the diamond fields in Marange as part of the government clean-up exercise were in fact Green Bombers in police uniform.

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Movement for Democratic Change shadow Minister for Defence Giles Mutsekwa said the military did not trust the MDC as an agent for political change and was at a quandary as to what to do to resolve the country’s economic crisis.

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A 2007 by-election in Chiredzi South in which the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was fielding an ex-army officer, Killian Gwanetsa, was expected to bolster Emmerson Mnangagwa who was reportedly trying to increase his support within the military as well as his influence in Masvingo Province.

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Movement for Democratic Change MP Giles Mutsekwa told United States embassy officials that Zimbabwean Defence Forces commander Constantine Chiwenga and other high-ranking officers had met with Mugabe in September 2006 and asked him to step aside.

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Portugal’s political director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vasco Bramao Ramos said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was tougher on the question of President Robert Mugabe’s participation at the European Union-Africa summit in Lisbon than his predecessor Tony Blair.

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A five-minute vote of thanks by President Robert Mugabe at the end of the twelfth summit of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa in Nairobi turned into a 45-minute lashing out at foreign powers, especially the United States, Britain and the European Union.

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Malaysia refused to bar President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwean delegation from attending the Langkawi International Dialogue which was aimed at fostering South-South partnership and networking.

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Mutare North MP Giles Mutsekwa was charged with seven others under the Public Order and Security Act in connection with the seizure of arms caches in Mutare and for allegedly plotting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe during his birthday celebrations in that city.

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