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...Zimbabwe Unity at Last? Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was sworn in on Feb. 11 as the country's new Prime Minister, after nearly 11 months of political violence and stalled negotiations with controversial leader Robert Mugabe, who refused to step down as President despite losing the March 29 presidential election to Tsvangirai. More than 100 members of Tsvangirai's political party, however, remain in police custody...
...mini-bottles of white wine from the café car. Through the train’s windows, we watched the American cityscapes and countrysides fly by. I knew I had to go. Especially when I found out that I would finish finals the Saturday before he was to be sworn in. But despite my long-standing resolution to be there in person to hear this extraordinary orator, the new leader of our country, I failed to make any set travel arrangements—and it was just days before the inauguration would take place. I figured that between bus, train...
Former Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was sworn in as Prime Minister by President Robert Mugabe Wednesday and urged his countrymen to unite in an effort to revive the country. "For too long, Zimbabwe has endured violent political polarization," he told a rally of thousands in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare. "This must end today. We can no longer afford the violence of brother on brother. Let's put our differences aside. Everyone is hungry. We have to heal our nation by forgiving our brother." Tsvangirai acknowledged that working with Mugabe would be difficult; he could forgive but not forget...
Lopez was the last of the remaining high-profile political prisoners to be liberated, and the FARC by most accounts has sworn off taking any others. That doesn't necessarily mean the rebels will stop nabbing military and police prisoners, as well as non-political civilian hostages, of which they still have hundreds in their clutches. But war-weary Colombians are cautiously hoping that their long national kidnapping nightmare is in its final throes. "In the best case," the Colombian newsmagazine Semana wrote this week, "the liberations could be the first step toward negotiations to bring...
...infomercial, stand-up comedy and political televangelism, Royal upped the ante. "You have to be a moron to scream about sacrilege, about cultish [behavior] when everyone is in ecstasy over [Barack] Obama's campaign," she says in the book, echoing her contention when Obama was sworn in last month that the new U.S. President had "copied" her campaign and "even used slogans similar to mine...