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...Speaking to TIME by phone, Coltart said, "It is increasingly clear that Mugabe has lost the support of the rank and file of the army and the police." The armed forces have become Mugabe's main support as his popularity plummeted amid the the country's economy disintegration. South Africa's Mail & Guardian is reporting negotiations between the opposition and Zimbabwe's military and security apparatus...
...Mugabe was once a darling of Africa for his overthrow of white supremacist rule in what was then known as Rhodesia, and was praised in the West for Zimbabwe's excellent education system and relative prosperity. More recently he has become a failure and an embarrassment. Zimbabwe's economy has collapsed: unemployment is 80%, inflation is 100,000%, and up to 3 million Zimbabweans have fled the country. Mugabe regularly rails against homosexuals and a Western conspiracy to recolonize Zimbabwe. His regime is riven with corruption, with senior figures allotting themselves large tracts of farmland seized under Mugabe's anti...
...Many in the international community certainly hope so. Zimbabwe's ambassador to South Africa, Simon Khaya Moyo, complained in February that the West believes "the only election that can be free and fair in Zimbabwe is one in which President Mugabe is defeated," and there is some truth to that. The world will not re-engage with Zimbabwe as long as Mugabe presides over what is widely viewed as a corrupt dictatorship...
...aftermaths more so. Few would discount the possibility that by allowing open opposition, Mugabe is merely drawing his opponents into the open. But even if the violence fails to materialize this year, Maroleng says the poll is a distraction from talks between the government and opposition, mediated by South Africa, aimed at restoring a more democratic political climate in Zimbabwe and strengthening its institutions. The election, says Maroleng, once again reduces the question of Zimbabwe's political future to the question of Mugabe. "That's wrong for every one," says Maroleng. "Well, for everyone but Mugabe...
With her 20-lb. (9 kg) camera braced in the window of a tiny airplane, Mary Meader captured images of the Nazca Lines of Peru, the white summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and the massive pyramids of Egypt. Her aerial photographs were some of the first taken of parts of Africa and South America...