A Victory For Democracy In Zimbabwe?
Is Mugabe about to effectively resign and cede all power to Tsvangirai?
He will remain as president in name only and all real power will be held by a 20-member cabinet under Tsvangirai as prime minister. The opposition MDC will have 11 cabinet posts to nine for Mugabe’s Zanu-PF. All Mugabe’s senior officials in the army, police and intelligence services, who have unleashed a campaign of terror since the MDC won a disputed victory in the elections held in March, will be dismissed
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The transitional government will have close ties to a group of western donor nations known as the Fishmongers Group, set up a year ago on Britain’s initiative. It includes the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Sweden, Holland, Norway, Canada and Australia. China declined an invitation to join.The transitional government will be obliged to follow edicts laid down by the group. They will insist that the new government gives full and equal access to food aid, plans a return to financial stability, restores the rule of law with an independent judiciary and respects property rights. This will mean that the farms stolen by Mugabe and his cronies will either have to be restored to their owners or compensation will be paid.
Seems too good to be true.
(Via HotAir, where Ed Morissey has more)
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amazing news, if true. i hope the fishmongers group (and the rest of the world, frankly) is willing to step up to the plate and get some serious market initiatives going as well as political ones.
This is the only entry in Google News as of 15:00 US Eastern.
It would be good, but as of last night - a day after HotAir’s post - the news out of South Africa was only that talks with Zim were stalled.
Await developments.
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