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U.S. Ambassador Brian Nichols, a Moses Brown School graduate and son of a Brown University professor, has an opportunity to help foster democracy in the African nation at a “pivotal and precarious time” in its history, according to one observer.
The air traffic control tower at the airport in Zimbabwe’s capital city has a distinctive design, inspired by African history.
A Rhode Islander willing to look past the tower’s triangular windows and other style details could easily liken it to a New England lighthouse.
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So far, the policy has not produced all of the desired results.
“Ambassador Nichols has arrived in Zimbabwe at a really pivotal and precarious time, which is exciting for a diplomat,” says a prominent Zimbabwe observer, Todd Moss, a senior fellow at the Center For Global Development. “But it also makes it difficult.”
“It’s going to be a challenge,” Moss says.
The election itself, while a marked improvement from the Mugabe era, fell short of international standards, according to observers sponsored by the U.S.
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