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Movement for Democratic Change secretary general Tendai Biti was sceptical about the Global Political Agreement that his party signed with the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front on 15 September 2008 because anything Mugabe touched was poisoned.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai told United States ambassador James McGhee, two days after the signing of the Global Political Agreement, that President Robert Mugabe was committed to making the inclusive government a success but needed to “deal with his people”.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai highlighted the need for renewed international assistance in the form of food, medicine, electricity, fuel and financial investment in his inaugural speech at the signing of the Global Political Agreement in September 2008.

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Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga saw himself as a mentor for Movement for Democratic change leader and Prime Minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai and urged Tsvangirai not to accept any power-sharing deal unless it gave him proper executive powers.

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Vice-president Joice Mujuru was being aggressively groomed for potential higher office and her faction was grooming its own stable of young Turks who quietly stood on a more reformist platform, former United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell said.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono raided the foreign currency accounts of several companies to pay US$120 million in arrears to the International Monetary Fund to save the country from being expelled from the organisation.

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Eddison Zvobgo Jnr, who was excluded from contesting his father’s previous seat in Masvingo South through the party’s primary elections, said this was not going to drive him out of politics.

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Masvingo South legislator Walter Mzembi said young members like him, Pearson Mbalekwa and Kindness Paradza, had joined Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front to fight from within but were now frustrated because of their lack of influence.

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The United States welcomed the European Union’s addition of central bank governor Gideon Gono and some state-owned enterprises to its sanctions but urged the EU to consider listing all individuals and entities on its sanctions list.

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Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio told United States ambassador Marcia Bernicat that a carefully crafted text that was not critical could spur a resolution to the Zimbabwe crisis.

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