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Is the balance shifting in Zimbabwe?
This week’s reopening of Zimbabwe’s parliament had been seen by many as a show of defiance by President Robert Mugabe against an opposition that has so far rejected terms of a power-sharing deal that appear more acceptable to the veteran leader and to at least some of his regional counterparts.
But it may not have gone quite to plan.
The election of the parliamentary speaker chosen by the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) came in spite of efforts by Mugabe’s ZANU-PF to bring in the candidate of the breakaway MDC faction. Members of that faction appear to have sided with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai rather than their own party leadership.
Then Mugabe faced unprecedented boos and jeers as he delivered his speech at the reopening of parliament, where ZANU-PF has lost its majority for the first time since independence from Britain in 1980. Mugabe nonetheless said he was optimistic that a power-sharing deal would be reached.
Is there a shift in the balance of power in Zimbabwe? What might it all mean for talks and for chances of an agreement that could help to revive the stricken country?
You are all obsessed with Zimbabwe because you are all so greedy that you will do anything not to give back the land you stole from Zimbabwes through rape, genocide, and aparttheid.
Yes, Zimbabwe has problems but there are many African countris that have worse problems. This blanket coverage of Zimbabwe is intended to serve your selfish interests. You do not care about Africans. Otherwise, you would not starve millions of black Africans with economic sanctions for the benefit of a few thousand whites.
There is nothing wrong with a blog about Zimbabwe (where about 100 people have died despite your lies of torture, terror). What is wrong is posting 100 blogs about Zimbabwe while saying nothing about Ethiopia, Somalia, Congo, etc where tens of thousands of people are dying.
There is near-genocide in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia, US-backed Ethiopian troops are slaughtering Africans in Somalia, up to 5 million people have died in the Congo, tens of thousands have died in Alegeria. There are far more brural dictators in Libya, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Uganda, ets.
Why the disproportional focus on Zimbabwe? Why the blanket coverage of Zimbabwe on CNN, BBC, Reuters and no word about the Africans dying in greater numbers in other areas?
I know a lot of Zimbabweans are genuinely concerned about the situation in Zimbabwe, but I also see a greater number of greedy hypocrites pretending to love Zimbabwe because they cannot come to terms with the fact that the natives are taking their land back. That is the reason for these crocodile tears on scores of blogs about Zimbabwe.