ZIMBABWE: How to get donor funds to the needy – analysis
HARARE, 17 July 2009 (IRIN): That Zimbabwe needs aid is a given – its battered population has experienced widespread food shortages, hyperinflation and a devastating cholera epidemic – but so far the stumbling block of trust in the institutions responsible for handling money has proved bigger than need.
The formation of a unity government in February 2009 between President Robert Mugabes ruling ZANU-PF and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirais opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was welcomed by the Southern African countrys major donors, the United States and the European Union.
But did NOT lead to their lifting targeted sanctions against the ZANU-PF elite, or open the floodgates to billions of dollars in aid.
Analysts say donor community doubt in Mugabes sincerity surfaced soon after the Global Political Agreement, which paved the way for the unity government, was signed in September 2008.
Within a few months, Mugabe re-appointed Gideon Gono as Governor of the Reserve Bank, despite protests from the MDC that this was in flagrant disregard of the agreement, which requires consensus on such appointments.
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