The Insider

While the inclusive government continued to tout its success in achieving unity and moving forward with “problem” issues, the old guard was acting as if nothing had changed as they continued with arbitrary arrests, politically trumped-up charges and land seizures.

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Minister of Water Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, a member of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s faction of the Movement for Democratic Change, said most of the members of cabinet from the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front were difficult to deal with, but the MDC could work with Environment Minister Francis Nhema and Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi whom he described as moderates.

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Francis Nhema who had been Minister of Environment and Tourism since 2000 retained the Environment portfolio but lost the tourism part to his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front colleague Walter Mzembi.

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Movement for Democratic Change secretary Tendai Biti was opposed to any government that included President Robert Mugabe and urged the United States to make it clear that it would not deal with such a government.

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Environment Minister Francis Nhema was frustrating the director of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management Morris Mutsambiwa through his highly politicised board.

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France said it was not going to send a high level delegation to the United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development which was going to be chaired by Zimbabwe’s Environment Minister Francis Nhema.

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The secretary general of the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change Welshman Ncube said the Tsvangirai faction and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front were holding talks to form a government of national unity.

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Canada’s director of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Pamela O’Donnell said her country had similar concerns with the United States over Zimbabwe’s Environment Minister Francis Nhema chairing the 16^th meeting of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development.

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Slovenia’s Minister for International Development Ales Verdir told the United States that though Slovenia appreciated the US’s concerns over Zimbabwe’s chairmanship of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development it was not going to follow the US lead on the level of participation at the CSD’s 16^th meeting.

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The Movement for Democratic Change was so broke after the 2008 elections that it could not even print its presidential newsletter because it had run out of paper and ink.

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