Word: factionalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...move angered the grass roots even more, and they handed Symington a humiliating defeat. Haney won again in 2008, and estimates that after this primary, his faction still has the power in the state GOP structure. "We have a right to speak up if we feel our leaders are abandoning principles; we have a right to say no to our leaders. He's telling us to shut up," says Haney...
...presidency until next year's elections because he's not a member of the legislature. But he'll be happy to have the seat kept warm by his close ally Motlanthe, viewed both within and outside of the ANC as the most level-headed and pragmatic leader in his faction and as the figure best able to unify a badly divided ruling party...
...When the deal is finally signed, Mugabe will likely remain President with two deputies from his Zanu-PF Party, but with reduced powers, and Tsvangirai will become Prime Minister with two deputies, one from his own faction of the MDC and the other being Arthur Mutambara, leader of a rival faction of the opposition party...
According to Sidney Jones, a Jakarta-based terrorism expert with the International Crisis Group, the breakdown of negotiations may have freed the most radicalized faction of a fluid coalition of homegrown separatists, criminals, and foreign jihadis trained by Jemaah Islamiyah, the al-Qaeda-linked international terrorist group. "The MILF was keeping a fairly tight lid on the radical elements," Jones says. "When things were looking bright for a peace agreement, they were even providing intelligence on foreign jihadis to the armed forces of the Philippines." Such cooperation is unlikely to continue, Jones says...
...Mugabe was incensed," said the MDC source. "He accused Tsvangirai of being unreasonable ... and told the meeting that he would soon form a government with like-minded people [and] not Tsvangirai." That was an apparent reference to negotiations on power-sharing that Mugabe has been conducting with breakaway MDC faction leader Arthur Mutambara, which was reported by Zimbabwe's state-run Herald newspaper last week. (Mutambara later denied that he had reached any agreement with Mugabe.) The reaction of Zimbabwe's security establishment to Tsvangirai's proposal was even more extreme than Mugabe's. A leading army general, who also...