Zimbabwe: after Mugabe resigns

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Professor Stephen Chan, is an academic expert on Zimbabwe and was there recently during the disorder. A couple of passages:

With former defence chief General Constantine Chiwenga in charge as acting president, the protesters were met with a furious militarised response.

And so Zimbabwe is held back by three key things: a quarrel at the top that means government is too preoccupied and divided to focus on proper planning and economic management, lashing out at its own people instead; a disastrous inability to feel the popular pulse, with the ruling oligarchs now living in a hermetically sealed world of their own; and the ongoing economic naivety of those who should be managing the nation’s finances.

Link:https://theconversation.com/zimbabwe-three-reasons-why-its-all-going-so-wrong-for-mnangagwa-111443?

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A blog to follow on Zimbabwe, the main author is Ian Scoones, who is an academic in development studies @ Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex and a frequent visitor to Zimbabwe.
Link:https://zimbabweland.wordpress.com/