Zimbabwe’s fragile power-sharing government was on the brink of collapse yesterday with both sides claiming irreconcilable differences and foreign diplomats warning of a spike in political violence. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said the government is “dysfunctional” and called this week for a “divorce” from President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party. Although Mr Tsvangirai stressed yesterday that he had not yet quit the government, the outburst from the leader of the former opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) came at the end of a…
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Tsvangirai eyes ‘divorce’ from Mugabe as coalition totters