Cabinet disagreements threaten Zimbabwe unity deal

September 18, 2008

President Robert Mugabe and his political rivals have been unable to agree on how to share key Cabinet posts, an opposition spokesman said Thursday, in a sign that deep and bitter divisions were threatening a watershed unity government agreement.

Nelson Chamisa of the Movement for Democratic Change said a meeting of party leaders broke up with no resolution and deputies had been asked to keep negotiating.

Mugabe’s party “is claiming all the powerful ministries,” Chamisa said. “That is why there couldn’t be agreement and it’s being referred back to the negotiators.”

He said the ministries in contention included home affairs, which directs police forces that have been accused of political violence. Mugabe remains commander in chief, so the opposition was likely to insist on control of at least some security forces.

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