Power-sharing Robert Mugabe style
Big surprise: Zimbabwe’s new unity government is off to a rocky start
Zimbabwes new unity government involving the countrys longtime dictator Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangarai has got off to a predictably rocky start. Roy Bennett, a senior official in Tsvangarais Movement for Democratic Change party and the partys nominee to become deputy agriculture minister, was reportedly seized today upon arriving at Harares airport. Bennett is a white farmer who lost his property during Mugabes "land reform"program.
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