Optimism Short-Lived

President Jacob Zuma of South Africa announced, following his visit to Zimbabwe in March, that he received confirmation from all parties to the Global Political Agreement (GPA) that they would commit to its full implementation. However, hopes that a political breakthrough had been achieved were soon dashed when Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party announced that it would be making no further concessions until targeted sanctions against top ZANU-PF officials are removed. Sanctions are unlikely to be lifted in the near-term and, as such, the deadlock looks set to

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