{"id":194845,"date":"2008-08-14T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/14\/zimbabwe-update-20\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T00:30:00","slug":"zimbabwe-update-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/14\/zimbabwe-update-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7560954.stm\">Mugabe government seized Morgan Tsvangerai&#8217;s passport at the airport<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/reuters\/2008\/08\/14\/africa\/OUKWD-UK-ZIMBABWE-CRISIS.php\">returned it after threats from Botswana&#8217;s President Seretse Khama Ian Khama<\/a> threatened not to attend a regional summit.<\/p>\n<p>Tsvangerai is saying that he is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7560557.stm\">committed to the negotiations<\/a>, though with the entire passport debacle, Mugabe&#8217;s commitment is in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting bit of information is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/feedarticle\/7724348\">a mining company is holding talks with the MDC about platinum concessions<\/a>, which indicates that someone thinks that there is a chance that someone other than Mugabe will have control of such things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, the Mugabe government seized Morgan Tsvangerai&#8217;s passport at the airport, but returned it after threats from Botswana&#8217;s President Seretse Khama Ian Khama threatened not to attend a regional summit. Tsvangerai is saying that he is committed to the negotiations, though with the entire passport debacle, Mugabe&#8217;s commitment is in doubt. One interesting bit of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,971,964],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-civil-rights","category-foreign-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194845"}],"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=194845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}