If anyone would know a few ways to get around Robert Mugabe and his criminal regime, it ought to be Tsvangirai. Asking the US and other countries to invest in what's left of Zimbabwe is no small task because of pillaging of anything with a value in Zimbabwe. Regardless, the power-sharing PM needs to find investments, food, assistance to stop the bleeding in that country. While many at home complain of the failure of the Mugabe-Tsvangirai unity government compromise, there is not much that can be done as long as the healthy looking 85 year old Mugabe remains alive and in power.
Until Mugabe is gone, nothing will change quickly so Tsvangirai can only ask for help and hope for the best. Washington Post:
MDC officials insist they have made progress. Now in control of the Finance Ministry, the party has stabilized the previously astronomical inflation rate. Store shelves are stocked, gas stations have fuel and public teachers and health workers are back on duty, thanks to new a $100 monthly stipend.
But much remains unchanged. The media cannot report freely, though Tsvangirai has said restrictions would be scrapped. The attorney general and the central bank governor are still in their jobs even though Mugabe appointed them in violation of the power-sharing agreement and MDC leaders have called for their ouster.
At least 170 farmers have been taken to court recently for "illegally" occupying their land in a continuation of a decade-long campaign by Mugabe to reclaim white-owned land despite a regional tribunal's order that it stop.
MDC officials say human rights abuses have declined, but many observers disagree. In recent months, opposition and civil society activists have been dragged in and out of courts and prison cells on charges -- widely considered fabricated -- that they plotted to overthrow Mugabe.
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