Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa made a home visit on Friday to the leader of the country’s main opposition party, Morgan Tsvangirai, who has been battling cancer. The visit came as Zimbabwe’s political parties prepare to begin campaigning for elections due later this year — the first since former president Robert Mugabe stood down following a brief military takeover. Tsvangirai’s deputy in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party Nelson Chamisa said that Mnangagwa’s gesture was “the politics we want to see”. “The politics of peace, the politics of working together, the politics of caring for each other,” he said. He subsequently became prime minister in a power-sharing government in which he was widely seen as being out-foxed by Mugabe.

Source: The Guardian January 05, 2018 12:33 UTC