Arthur Mutambara

Arthur Mutambara, Movement for Democratic Change, Zimbabwe.

Allan Little talks to Arthur Mutambara, the leader of one faction of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change. Why are the opposition fighting each other?

Zimbabwe is in melt-down.

The shops have run out of food because the government has forced retailers to sell at prices lower than wholesale cost.

The UN World Food Programme is currently making plans to feed over three million people in Zimbabwe this autumn.

With President Robert Mugabe up for re-election next March the opposition should be poised to sweep him from office.

But the opposition are in crisis spending most of their energies attacking each other?

Arthur Mutambara is leader of one faction of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change.

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