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BY MOSES MATENGA FORMER MDC-T vice-president Obert Gutu, who defected to Zanu PF last week, says he crossed the floor after realising that the main opposition party had long been buried together with its late founder Morgan Tsvangirai in 2018. He told NewsDay that he decided to join Zanu PF for its ideological clarity, adding that it took him two years to make the decision. Gutu and former MDC Alliance senator James Makore joined the ruling party last week and were welcomed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other senior party officials during a ceremony held at State House. “I took a decision to join Zanu PF after a lengthy process. I have been in the MDC for over 20 years after starting from a low position as organising secretary for Harare North district. I think the party just lost direction. In 2002, there was unity and the vibe and solidarity, but I don’t know what happened over time. There was backbiting, camps, money exchanging hands and that happened around 2004,” he said. “There was now a direct attack on Tsvangirai, being labelled a dictator, and it would appear he had his own intelligence, hence did what he did. Morgan would not openly show anger. Even if insulted, he would take it in and I think that was his strength and he would manage people. If Tsvangirai’s succession had been well-handled, the party would have been stronger.” Gutu claimed that those that now assert to have liked Tsvangirai were the loudest in fighting him. “Makore and a group of some elderly people stood with Tsvangirai at that time and they include Morgan Femai, the late Cephas Makuyana and others. (Elias) Mudzuri had a rural mobilising strategy that was vibrant. There was no Twitter that time and they really went on the ground just like what Zanu PF is doing now. ” He claimed that the old guard in the MDC were now bitter as they worked for the party but remain as unsung heroes. “The MDC has not healed since 2005. People say I hate (MDC Alliance leader Nelson) Chamisa), I don’t. Why should I? He is one of the few who know my village home, having been there with Tsvangirai and a few others and was here when my daughter graduated and even came with his wife,” Gutu said. “I can tell you the MDC went with Tsvangirai. It was buried with Tsvangirai in Humanikwa village.” Tsvangirai succumbed to colon cancer on February 14, 2018 and was buried at his rural home in Buhera. Follow Moses on Twitter @mosesmatenga
The post MDC died with Tsvangirai: Gutu appeared first on NewsDay Zimbabwe.
Many people have been killed since clashes began on Monday. Scores too had been killed in the run up to the vote as protestors marched against Conde's bid for a third term.
Sudan has decided to normalize its relations with Israel under US mediation,
The normalization of relations between the 2 countries was announced Friday by the White House in Washington.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described this a \"tremendous turnaround,\"
\"What a tremendous turnaround! Today Khartoum says yes to peace with Israel, yes to the recognition of Israel and normalization with Israel,\" Netanyahu said in a statement in Hebrew transmitted.
Sudan thus becomes the third Arab country to announce since August the normalization of its relations with Israel, after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, welcomed Mr. Netanyahu who had met earlier this year with Sudanese General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Uganda.
The normalization with Sudan is particularly symbolic. After the Six-Day War, which in 1967 saw Israel seize the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, most Arab leaders met in Sudan to adopt the Khartoum Resolution known for its \"three no's\": no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with the Jewish state.
Rachel Maddow charged that the president was \"trying to intimidate\" the White House correspondent in the days leading up to the debate.
Alicia Garza says she was notified by the FBI about a possible violent plot by white supremacists targeting her.
Lyle and Marylin Hileman, ages 86 and 84, didn't want to leave the home they had spent many years with their family in, the sheriff said. Their residence was completely burned, he added.
Grand Lake is about 60 miles northwest of Denver.
\"Over the past couple of days, I've worked with the Hileman family while they waited for the answers they really didn't want to hear but they knew were reality,\" Schroetlin said.
The East Troublesome Fire has grown to more than 188,000 acres and is 4% contained, officials said.
It's one of several blazes burning in the state, in what has been a record-breaking 2020 fire season all across the Western US. Among the other blazes is the Cameron Peak Fire, the largest in Colorado history, that is now about 60% contained.
In a statement read by the sheriff, the Hileman family said the couple was contacted the couple was contacted by several friends Wednesday who offered to help them evacuate but the two refused.
\"Their only desire was to be together in the home they loved,\" the family said.
The two married young and honeymooned in the area in 1952, the family said.
\"Years later, they would buy the property adjacent to Rocky Mountain National Park,\" they said. \"The property become a lifelong mission to create 'heaven on earth' to which family, friends and strangers, who quickly became friends, would be drawn.\"
The couple sold the property to their son Glenn in the spring of 2020, hoping to stay there \"as long as physically possible,\" the family said.
On October 21, the two called their son and shared that the blaze was burning in nearby fields, barns and homes but they remained calm and \"resolute and adamant, they would not leave,\" the family said. When their son tried to call them back after getting in touch with his siblings, there was no answer.
\"Our family feels comforted in the knowledge our parents left this world together and on their own terms,\" the family said. \"They leave a legacy of hard work and determination to overcome, something all in Grand County will need.\"
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis addressed the loss on Twitter saying he was \"extremely saddened' with the news.
\"My heart goes out to the family and friends of Lyle and Marilyn Hileman,\" the governor wrote.
Authorities were just beginning to assess properties in the area, the sheriff said, and will continue over the coming days.
\"At this point we have no other missing persons on file from this incident,\" he said.
The fire's cause remains under investigation and officials hope to have it contained by November 10.
The post An elderly couple refused to leave the home they spent most of their life in and were killed in the East Troublesome Fire appeared first on L.A. Focus Newspaper.
By DEB RIECHMANN and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Friday that Sudan will start to normalize ties with Israel, making it the third Arab state to do so as part of U.S.-brokered deals in the run-up to Election Day. The deal, which would deepen Sudan's engagement with the West, follows Trump's conditional agreement this week to remove the North African nation from the list of state sponsors of terrorism if it pays compensation to American victims of terror attacks. It also delivers a foreign policy achievement for Trump just days before the U.S. election […]
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