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September 16, 2008

Key Points

Cross-party National Economic Council to oversee economic recovery efforts.
Call for international sanctions to be lifted - important re: those that US sanctions prevent Zimbabwe from using IMF or World Bank support.
Independent Land Commission to oversee redistribution in a non-partisan way.  Compensation of dispossessed commercial farmers falls to UK.
Draft Constitution to be prepared - no fixed [...]

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Agreement Text

Sokwanele have the text of the agreement, which I’m currently ploughing through.  Happy reading.

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September 15, 2008

Done Deal?

No, I haven’t given up following the shenanigans around the MDC / Zanu-PF talks - I just didn’t see the point in writing about them given the lack of hard information.  Now, though, we apparently have a deal, which was initially due to be signed at 10am Zimbabwe time this morning - that’s about a [...]

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