Zimbabwe: Political and Security Challenges to the Transition

Harare/Pretoria/Nairobi/Brussels, 3 March 2010: Despite initial scepticism, Zimbabwe’s year-old unity government has achievements to its credit, but the democratic transition remains at risk, especially from hard-line security officials – President Robert Mugabe’s last reliable supporters.
Zimbabwe: Political and Security Challenges to the Transition,* the latest briefing from the International Crisis Group, analyses the situation resulting from [...]

Mugabe strips MDC ministers of some powers

President Robert Mugabe has again moved unilaterally to strip ministers of the Movement For Democratic Change formation of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of their powers, escalating tensions in the country’s troubled unity government.
Statutory instruments published in the state Gazette on Friday indicate the president trimmed down powers of the Ministry of information and Technology and [...]

MDC position on sanctions not clear

MDC-T legislators this week took their leader Morgan Tsvangirai to task demanding a clear party position on sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe. Although Tsvangirai denied calling for a wholesale lifting of sanctions at a caucus meeting for MPs from his party on Wednesday, some legislators at the meeting told the Zimbabwe Independent that his message was [...]

Zuma criticized for Zimbabwe position

South African President Jacob Zuma has been met by protesters in London chanting “shame on you” on the last day of his state visit to Britain.
Earlier, the leader sparked anger over calls for international sanctions on Zimbabwe to be eased.
About 50 people gathered outside the South African High Commission, waving banners saying “Zuma save Zimbabwe”.
In [...]

PM Tsvangirai vehicle is suspicious “accident”

Harare – Zimbabwe’s security services and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have launched investigations into a suspected assassination attempt on Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai during his hunger assessment tour of Matabeleland two weeks ago, Radio VOP can reveal.
Tsvangirai escaped a potentially deadly accident when his recently delivered Toyota Land Cruiser suspiciously burst a rear [...]