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In 2008, Mugabe nearly suffered electoral defeat. Challenger Morgan Tsvangirai won the first round election with 47.9 percent of the vote. It took more than a month for the results to be announced, evidence according to observers that there may have been tampering. In the second round, Mugabe’s political allies used force to quell opposition. Tsvangirai dropped out in protest, but Mugabe sailed to victory with more than 85 percent of the vote.
What might the country look like if things went differently?
“There was this moment when we knew Mugabe lost and there were some signals he was going to leave. Results were delayed for a period before there were reports of violence by Mugabe supporters. And then he didn’t leave,” said Todd Moss, a former State Department official and Center for Global Development senior fellow, to Humanosphere. “What are the other things we could have done in that window between knowing he lost?”
A new novel by Moss, Minute Zero, is a sort of re-imaging of the 2008 elections and how the United States may have engaged to spark a change in power. It is the sequel novel to Golden Hour, the first in a series of four diplomatic-thrillers by Moss. Books three and four are set to publish in the fall of 2016 and 2017, respectively.
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