Briggs Bomba of Africa Action and Mahmood Mamdani of Columbia University discuss Zimbabwe's future under its new unity government after the new prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, was sworn in by longtime opponent Robert Mugabe.
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February 11, 2009
Zimbabwe’s Mugabe shares power with longtime opponent
Blogwatch
January 30, 2009
Zimbabwe’s opposition party agrees to unity government
Zimbabwe's main opposition party said it will accept a power-sharing plan and join a unity government with President Robert Mugabe. The move underscores a growing sense in the region that Zimbabwe needed a political solution so it could address its growing humanitarian crisis.
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January 23, 2009
Cholera death toll surpasses 2,700 in Zimbabwe
Ann Veneman, the executive director of UNICEF, recently returned from Zimbabwe and discusses efforts to combat cholera and the relationship between Zimbabwe's political impasse and its deteriorating health sector.
Perspectives
January 15, 2009
A letter from Zimbabwe on bank lines and cholera
A Worldfocus contributing blogger shares a letter from Zimbabwe, where the lines at the bank are long and residents struggle to get clean water and power.
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January 1, 2009
Zimbabwe crisis persists though absent from headlines
Andrew Meldrum, a senior editor at GlobalPost, discusses the state of Zimbabwe's health sector as the cholera crisis worsens and considers how the U.S. can respond to the situation.
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December 17, 2008
Humanitarian crisis unfurls in a volatile Zimbabwe
Andrew Meldrum, a senior editor at GlobalPost, discusses Zimbabwe's political instability and its future as a major humanitarian crisis continues to unfold.
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December 12, 2008
Week in review: Afghanistan, Pakistan and Zimbabwe
Carla Robbins of The New York Times and Gideon Rose of Foreign Affairs magazine discuss the week's major events, from U.S. plans to move more troops into Afghanistan to Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak.
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December 11, 2008
Mugabe claims cholera crisis is over in Zimbabwe
Dele Olojede, a Nigerian journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, discusses the entrenched Zimbabwean leader's situation and the country's future.
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December 10, 2008
Zimbabwe aid workers wrestle to contain cholera
Manuel Lopez, head of a Doctors Without Borders mission in Zimbabwe, discusses the country's cholera epidemic from Harare.
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December 9, 2008
World leaders call for Zimbabwe’s Mugabe to step down
Andrew Meldrum, a senior editor at GlobalPost, discusses the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe and international calls for President Robert Mugabe to step down.
