"Zimbabwe talks adjourn with no deal; Negotiators split on who will lead" by Celia W. Dugger, New York Times News Service | August 14, 2008
JOHANNESBURG - After three days of intensive negotiations to resolve Zimbabwe's political crisis, President Robert Mugabe and the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, were deadlocked yesterday on the most fundamental issue: which one of them would lead a new unity government.
The talks, which began last month with high hopes for a quick settlement, were adjourned with no date set for a resumption of negotiations. President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, the official mediator in the Zimbabwe crisis, left Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, yesterday without the power-sharing deal he had hoped to broker.
Mbeki, widely criticized for his silence about the human rights violations committed by Mugabe's supporters, will brief other southern African leaders about the status of the talks at a meeting in Johannesburg this weekend.
So nothing happened. Why all the print wasted?
In the meantime, hunger and hyperinflation have worsened across Zimbabwe, which has sunk into a deepening economic morass under Mugabe's leadership.
Like so much of Africa that never gets covered or is a one-day wonder from the racist, Zionist press.
Called it, didn't I?
Mugabe, who won a presidential runoff election against Tsvangirai that independent monitors said was neither free nor fair, has yet to lift a two-months-old ban on the provision of assistance by nongovernmental organizations that he accused of colluding with Western nations to topple him from power.
More than 1.5 million people in Zimbabwe, which has a population of 12 million, have already lost access to food and other basic needs, donor nations say.
As always, the PEOPLE SUFFER under the WEIGHT of their GOVERNMENT!!!!
It is not clear what will break the current political impasse. South African trade union officials, human rights groups, and the leaders of Botswana - a southern African country that has refused to recognize Mugabe's legitimacy - contend that the Southern African Development Community, the bloc of nations meeting this weekend, must take a harder line on Mugabe's refusal to give up power.
The latest round of talks at a hotel in Harare ended on a note of great confusion.
Yep! Those Africans just can't get together on anything.
Good thing the West never fucks around in their internal affairs, huh?
Just part of the White Man's Burden, right, elites?
Human Rights Watch said in a report released Tuesday that ZANU-PF was implicated in the killing of at least 163 people and the beating and torture of more than 5,000 others since the March election. The group said 32 of these people had been murdered since the June 27 presidential runoff, and two had been killed since Mugabe and Tsvangirai started talks on July 21.
You know, it is not like I don't believe them; however, I'm tired of western-centric (and thus Zio-centric) human rights blatherers that IGNORE PALESTINE!!!!
If they didn't MINIMIZE WESTERN CRIMES I wouldn't be as strident with them.
If you want to read the endless recapping of Zimbabwean politics, go here
