Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has arrived back in Zimbabwe from Botswana ahead of his wife’s funeral on Wednesday, according to an MDC party spokesman.
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Arrest threatens Zimbabwe’s new unity government
Zimbabwe’s new unity Cabinet met for the first time Tuesday, bringing together leaders of President Robert Mugabe’s party and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s opposition party. The government met a day after the opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, criticized last week’s arrest of a key party leader and what they called the abduction of other party members by Mugabe supporters. Roy Bennett — treasurer of the MDC and Zimbabwe’s agriculture deputy minister-designate — faces charges of planning terrorism and insurgency