The Insider

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and ministers from his party, the Movement for Democratic Change, boycotted a cabinet meeting chaired by President Robert Mugabe for the second time in two weeks to press for Mugabe to address outstanding issues in the Global Political Agreement.

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There was mayhem soon after the Movement for Democratic Change pulled out of government prompting party spokesman Nelson Chamisa to comment: “What we are seeing now was exactly how the violence began in the campaign for the presidential run-off elections between March and June last year. We are beginning to see the formation of another storm of violence.”

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Zimbabwe barred the United Nations special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manfred Nowak, from the entering the country, though he had initially been invited by Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa.

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Former Economic Planning Minister Elton Mangoma asked the United States to contribute to a trust fund that could be used to pay off service chiefs into retirement because they were the primary obstacle to political progress and reform in Zimbabwe.

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President Robert Mugabe did not want the inclusive government to collapse and at the same time the Movement for Democratic Change did not have a Plan B except for elections.

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Most people in rural Zimbabwe remained nervous about the potential for renewed violence more than a year after the 2008 presidential elections run-off which left more than 200 people dead.

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Mozambique Foreign Minister Oldemiro Baloi was surprised by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s pull out from the inclusive government because the Southern African Development Community had always believed that the government of national unity was progressing.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai at one time wondered how much longer he could tolerate the failure by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front to resolve outstanding issues surrounding the Global Political Agreement.

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Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara accused the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Information, George Charamba, of foot-dragging in the formation of a Media Commission because this would result in the publication of independent dailies that would be a direct threat to the ZANU-PF mouthpiece- The Herald.

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Zimbabweans were more positive about the future after the formation of the inclusive government and credited Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and the Movement for Democratic Change for the economic improvements.

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