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This is not the end of the Mugabe regime, but the talks that are currently taking place may signal that the end is in sight.
Time is running out, Zimbabwe is dying. Agriculturalists warn that the country requires 27,000 tonnes of maize seed for a season's planting.
This year's yield looks likely to fall as low as 2,500 tonnes. Food, when it is available, has been hit by inflation which is an incredible 10 million per cent. A note for 100 billion Zimbabwe dollars has been issued by the central bank.
A deal has been reached by Zimbabwe's ruling party and opposition to sign a framework for talks on the country's political crisis.
Haile Menkerios, the UN's envoy to Zimbabwe, said the deal would be signed by President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
But no one is under any illusion that even if the deal saw an immediate change in regime that Zimbabwe's dreadful situation would improve.
It is impossible for a country that has plunged as far as Zimbabwe to pick itself up. Any deal must involve more than just a change of government.
There must be a co-ordinated regional and international response that brings food and relief to a traumatised people.
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