Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai back home after three-week visit to Europe & USA
source: SW Radio Africa
By Tichaona Sibanda
29 June 2009
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai arrived home on Monday after a three week visit to Europe and the United States to ‘re-engage’ with the international community.
Tsvangirai’s spokesman James Maridadi told us that during the tour, the Prime Minister managed to raise over $US200 million, which will go towards the provision of basic services such as health and education. An amount far short of the estimated US$8,3 billion needed to rebuild the country.
On his way back to Harare, the Prime Minister stopped over in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he defended his move in entering the power-sharing deal with Robert Mugabe, saying they would succeed or fail together.
Reports quote Tsvangirai sayin; ‘Those who accept me have to accept Robert Mugabe. If there is a problem, we go and fail together.’
He added; ‘I don’t have to defend Mugabe’s past and position towards the west or other countries. We are in this transition and this transition is working.’
The Prime Minister has reiterated that his tour to drum-up support for [continue reading]
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