{"id":195309,"date":"2008-07-16T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/16\/zimbabwe-mdc-demands-second-mediator\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T04:00:00","slug":"zimbabwe-mdc-demands-second-mediator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/16\/zimbabwe-mdc-demands-second-mediator\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: MDC Demands Second Mediator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the MDC nd ZANU-PF have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601116&amp;sid=aRzWnEbR.gqQ&amp;refer=africa\">agreed to start negotiations<\/a>, but the MDC is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/07\/15\/africa\/AF-Zimbabwe.php\">asking the AU to appoint a second mediator<\/a>, because they think that Thabo Mbeki is completely in the tank for Mugabe.<\/p>\n<p>The depressing thing is that they are completely right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the MDC nd ZANU-PF have agreed to start negotiations, but the MDC is asking the AU to appoint a second mediator, because they think that Thabo Mbeki is completely in the tank for Mugabe. The depressing thing is that they are completely right.<\/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-195309","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\/195309"}],"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=195309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}