Signed on 15 September 2008, the GPA was intended to help lay the foundations for normalizing political processes and by extension foster conditions for free and fair elections. Only massive diplomatic intervention by the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and the Africa Union (AU) secured the Global Political Agreement (GPA). The actions taken after a violently unfair election in 2008 brought the country to near collapse. Starting in the early 1990s, however, the de facto one-party Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) state implemented various measures to increase its grip on power, including a crack-down on civil liberties. For 30 years, since independence in 1980, 87 year-old Robert Mugabe has ruled uninterruptedly.
Zimbabwe, a landlocked country of some 12.5 million inhabitants, is caught in a decade-long political struggle to move from dictatorship to democracy. Crisis Group has produced 25 reports/briefings overall on Zimbabwe, most recently on the continued political and security crisis in that country. In sub-Saharan Africa, the Crisis Group regional program headquarters are in Nairobi, with additional offices in Dakar, Senegal, and Johannesburg, South Africa.
Crisis Group’s Africa program oversees four projects covering Central, Southern, and West Africa, and the Horn of Africa, reporting on 20 different countries within these regions. Our staff are located on the ground in twelve regional offices and seventeen other locations, covering more than 60 countries. Ambassador Thomas Pickering is our co-chairman and Louise Arbour, former chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is our presidentĬrisis Group publishes annually some 80 reports and briefing papers and the monthly CrisisWatch bulletin on conflict regions around the world. Crisis Group was founded in 1995 as an international non-governmental organisation by distinguished diplomats, statesmen and opinion leaders including Career Ambassador Mort Abramowitz, Nobel Prize winner and former Finland president Martti Ahtisaari, the late Congressman Stephen Solarz, and former UN and British diplomat Mark Malloch Brown who despaired at the international community’s failure to anticipate and respond effectively to mass atrocities in Rwanda and Bosnia. Policy Toward Zimbabwe.” I want to commend the committee for focusing its attention at a crucial time for the people of Zimbabwe.Ĭrisis Group is an independent, non-partisan, non-governmental organization that provides field-based analysis, policy advice and advocacy to governments, the United Nations, and other multilateral organizations on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict. I want to express my appreciation to Chairman Smith and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights for the opportunity to testify this morning on “U.S. Middle East & North Africa View Program.Turkey’s PKK Conflict: A Visual Explainer.The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: A Visual Explainer.Conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas: A Visual Explainer.The Climate Factor in Nigeria’s Farmer-Herder Violence.How Climate Change Fuels Deadly Conflict.How Yemen’s War Economy Undermines Peace Efforts.Crime in Pieces: The Effects of Mexico’s “War on Drugs”, Explained.Rough Seas: Tracking Maritime Tensions with Iran.
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Deadly Conflict.Perhaps the voters will feel the same way when the regular season comes to a close. And after reading it, we have a hard time arguing against Nikola Jokic winning his second consecutive MVP. And ladies and gentlemen, upon our inspection, everything checked out. The user had also uploaded links to basketball reference page, guiding any onlooker to the proof that justifies their statement. He also has one fewer double-double than Embiid has games played.” “(Nikola) Jokic has as many double-doubles as Giannis has games played … Just a fun note I realized, Jokic is a walking double-double. And well, here is what they had to say on the matter. Recently, Redditor u/cycguy2 apparently just happened to be exploring some pages of basketball reference. NBA Reddit uncovers that Nikola Jokic has recorded the same number of double-doubles, as Giannis Antetokounmpo has played games this seasonĪnd yes, we mean double-doubles in a single season.
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