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Zimbabwe (Vol 11, 2014)

in Africa Yearbook Online
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Amin Y. Kamete
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During the year, factional fights in both major parties were played out in the open. While the succession war in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (zanu-pf) seemed to have produced a victor – at least for the time being – the conflicts in the fractured and weakened opposition Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai (mdc-t) raised more questions than answers. There was no substantive shift on the foreign affairs scene, the only movement being the lifting of targeted sanctions on some individuals and companies. The economy did not perform well, with critics and commentators indicating that the country was rapidly sliding back to the harrowing meltdown of 2008. ‘Illegal’ Western sanctions continued to be government’s favourite scapegoat for the economic woes.

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