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"Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been sworn in as prime minister in a unity government with President Robert Mugabe.
The new prime minister must deal with an economy in ruins, 90% unemployment and a cholera epidemic which has killed more than 3,400 people.
Hyperinflation is causing prices to double every day and the country stopped publishing inflation figures after it was last estimated at 231m%*. People are using foreign currency wherever possible. "
BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Tsvangirai's tough choice
* Now estimated at 5 Hextillion %
I understand his motivation and why [under pressure from the SADC, and amid MDC infighting] he may have felt he had no real choice but to concede and try something - but I still think it's a sell out. It is 'power sharing' in name only, and even then just barely.
The deal itself, and by being complicit in its inception the SADC afford legitimacy to a regime that deserves neither. It effectively ensures that Mugabe will remain the de facto leader for as long as he draws breath, hardly a just or desirable outcome for what little is left of Zimbabwe.
I'm still a little surprised and very disappointed this has finally came to pass, and it's a dark day for the continent. I expect little or nothing will change - within a day Mugabe has reneged on a prisoner release deal ... arrested lawyers to prevent them meeting arrested women's rights movement members ...
The new prime minister must deal with an economy in ruins, 90% unemployment and a cholera epidemic which has killed more than 3,400 people.
Hyperinflation is causing prices to double every day and the country stopped publishing inflation figures after it was last estimated at 231m%*. People are using foreign currency wherever possible. "
BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Tsvangirai's tough choice
* Now estimated at 5 Hextillion %
I understand his motivation and why [under pressure from the SADC, and amid MDC infighting] he may have felt he had no real choice but to concede and try something - but I still think it's a sell out. It is 'power sharing' in name only, and even then just barely.
The deal itself, and by being complicit in its inception the SADC afford legitimacy to a regime that deserves neither. It effectively ensures that Mugabe will remain the de facto leader for as long as he draws breath, hardly a just or desirable outcome for what little is left of Zimbabwe.
I'm still a little surprised and very disappointed this has finally came to pass, and it's a dark day for the continent. I expect little or nothing will change - within a day Mugabe has reneged on a prisoner release deal ... arrested lawyers to prevent them meeting arrested women's rights movement members ...