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Morning Open Thread: Zimbabwe Court Snubs MDC, Kenya’s New Cabinet |
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Zimbabwe’s high court has turned down the MDC’s request to have the results of the presidential election last month immediately released. Al Jazeera reports “[i]t took no more than two minutes for the high court judge to deliver his judgment.”
There has been no immediate explanation for the ruling, as it is still being typed up. More news forthcoming, of course.
In other news on the African continent, Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki has officially named opposition leader Raila Odinga to the post of prime minister after months of political violence. The cabinet is going to be split 50-50 between Kibaki’s and Odinga’s parties, but there is still disagreement about the most effective size of cabinet:
Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner, said that the country could be managed more effectively by fewer ministers.
“The international community has no business giving money, giving advances to a government that uses that money not to develop, but rather to sustain an extravagant lifestyle,” she said.
But Topi Lyambali, editor of the Kenyan London News, told Al Jazeera that a large cabinet was arguably necessary to promote stability.
“What many observers have been pointing out is that you cannot put a value to peace. Whatever it costs, the Kenyans have to get it,” he said.
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