{"id":193109,"date":"2009-01-19T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/19\/zimbabwe-update-14\/"},"modified":"2009-01-19T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T01:43:00","slug":"zimbabwe-update-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/19\/zimbabwe-update-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that on the way out of office, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2009\/01\/20090116-7.html\">Bush issued an order making it legal to sell arms to Zimbabwe<\/a>.  He found that, &#8220;Furnishing of defense articles and defense services to the Southern African Development Community will strengthen the security of the United States and promote world peace,&#8221; which authorizes sales to Zimbabwe too.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the MDC is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mg.co.za\/article\/2009-01-18-mdc-relationship-with-mbeki-broken-down\">finally flat out saying that Mbeki is unacceptable as a mediator<\/a>, which they should have done many months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Mbeki is still there and mediating, and doing his best to enable Mugabe.<\/p>\n<p>We also have reports of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.za\/News\/Article.aspx?id=919086\">Senior MDC officials being arrested<\/a>, along with reports of plans for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.za\/News\/Article.aspx?id=920869\">iminent arrest of Morgan Tsvangerai<\/a>, head of the MDC.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/2009-01-19-voa55.cfm\">most recent set of talks on powersharing have failed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that on the way out of office, Bush issued an order making it legal to sell arms to Zimbabwe. He found that, &#8220;Furnishing of defense articles and defense services to the Southern African Development Community will strengthen the security of the United States and promote world peace,&#8221; which authorizes sales to Zimbabwe too. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,964],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-foreign-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}