Mugabe Continues to Haunt Zimbabwe’s Quest for Aid

JOHANNESBURG -- Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is on his first official visit in Washington this week with a decidedly difficult sales pitch. He is expected to request funding for a nation that he recently said remains so unfree and unstable that it is ’not a country where I can be... Full Story »

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by Cecelia Wright - Jun. 9, 2009

Report is researched and written by sources covering Zimbabwe on site or within sight, i.e. South Africa. The current shared governance in Zimbabwe is rarely covered in US media and the effort to report on it reflects well on the Post.

Having served with the Peace Corps for over three years in South Africa and Zambia, neighboring countries to Zimbabwe, I witnessed some of the repression, desperation, poverty of the Zimbabwean people as they fled their country. While other governments must qualify the financial support to Zimbabwe to assure it does not go down the drain in Mugabe or ZanuPF coffers, financial aid and loans are an absolute necessity to begin to provide jobs and income and medical services to the ... More »

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