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...Zimbabwe If You Can't Beat 'Em ... After six months of political chaos in a nation facing an acute economic crisis, rivals Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai have reached an agreement to share power. While the terms of the deal are vague, it raises hope for stability in a country where inflation is estimated at more than 11 million percent, half the population is malnourished and 8 out of 10 people are unemployed and live on less than $2 a day. Western economic sanctions on the country remain in place...
...Morgan Tsvangirai Prime Minister...
Weeks after the violence surrounding the presidential election in Zimbabwe has subsided, Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe have finally reached a power-sharing agreement. In this arrangement, Tsvangirai becomes prime minister and chairman of the council of ministers, while Mugabe remains president, chairman of the cabinet, and leader of the armed forces. Despite this political solution, economic troubles remain. In order to solve them, the United States, though perhaps wary of the uncertainty of this political union, must act decisively by supporting foreign aid negotiations...
...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...
...While Tsvangirai accepted the proposal, sources claimed that Mugabe had initially rejected it, saying it would render him largely ceremonial and insisting that Tsvangirai should instead be his deputy. A Zanu-PF minister, speaking on condition of anonymity, told TIME earlier that Mugabe was not comfortable with Tsvangirai heading the government. He said, "The deal on the table is more of a fantasy. They want Tsvangirai to chair and appoint Cabinet. Those are the functions of the President in accordance to the constitution of Zimbabwe. Comrade Mugabe is refusing to sign that document...