Senior military officers and loyalists dominate Zimbabwe’s new 22-member cabinet appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Also included were some ministers from Mugabe’s former cabinet, including Patrick Chinamas, who returns to the finance ministry. Mnangagwa, who was inaugurated as president last Friday, did not include figures from the decades of opposition to Mugabe. Interviewed just before the president’s announcement, main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Mnangagwa had a “very small window” of opportunity to show that he was different from Mugabe. About 2 million so-called “aliens” would be entitled to vote, said Douglas Mwonzora, the secretary general of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)Political analyst Barnabas Thondlana said the court ruling narrowed the electoral chances for Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party.

Source: Egypt Independent December 01, 2017 07:52 UTC