{"id":195298,"date":"2008-07-18T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/18\/au-reviewing-request-for-another-mediator-in-zimbabwe\/"},"modified":"2008-07-18T05:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T10:02:00","slug":"au-reviewing-request-for-another-mediator-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/18\/au-reviewing-request-for-another-mediator-in-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"AU Reviewing Request for Another Mediator in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than asking for explicit his explicit removal, the MDC is now <a href=\"http:\/\/voanews.com\/english\/Africa\/Zimbabwe\/2008-07-17-voa45.cfm\">requesting that another mediator in addition to Thabo Mbeki be included in MDC-ZANU-PF talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, it appears that Mbeki&#8217;s pathetic performance as mediator is getting some visibility, as you can see in this <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Washington Post<\/span> article<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/story\/2008\/07\/14\/ST2008071402090.html\">discussing how the South African president&#8217;s legacy has been harmed by his embrace of Mugabe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than asking for explicit his explicit removal, the MDC is now requesting that another mediator in addition to Thabo Mbeki be included in MDC-ZANU-PF talks. Interestingly enough, it appears that Mbeki&#8217;s pathetic performance as mediator is getting some visibility, as you can see in this Washington Post articlediscussing how the South African president&#8217;s legacy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1000,964],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-elections","category-foreign-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195298"}],"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=195298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}