Crisis Coalition in Zimbabwe Dissolves: Following the Crumble of Donor-Funded Crisis Fiction
Extract from attached Crisis Coalition in Zimbabwe Presser:
“In light of the intensifying repression, shrinking civic space, and the systematic use of the law to crush pro-democracy forces, the membership unanimously resolved that it is in the best strategic interest of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition to dissolve its current organisational structure with immediate effect and deliberate on a renewed strategic direction.”
Comment:
So @crisiscoalition has just announced it's dissolving after 25 years, citing "intensifying repression" as the reason. Yet the Coalition was in the first place purportedly created to fight exactly that. Dissolving itself because the crisis it was built to tackle is allegedly worsening is peak irony.
In any event, the idea that a coalition that has dissolved itself with immediate effect will thereafter, “deliberate on a renewed strategic direction,” is an outrageous non sequitar. How can a non-existent organisation deliberate on anything?
There’s an unspoken truth here.
The 25-year-old “crisis” fiction in the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition no longer has takers among unconvinced and fatigued donors restrategizing their foreign policies. This shift is triggered by the US, where the Trump administration has thrown “democracy” geopolitics out the window in favour of a new approach under Trump’s controversial and dangerous “Donroe Doctrine”—based on the use and projection of US ‘strength, force, and power’ around the world, as recently witnessed in Venezuela and the ongoing Greenland saga.
In particular, the Crisis Coalition in Zimbabwe has dissolved itself because the US legislation that enabled its creation 25 years ago in 2001—the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (ZDERA) of 2001—is being repealed under Section 303 of H.R. 5300, the "Department of State Policy Provisions Act," currently before the House of Representatives in the US Congress; and because of the defunding and effective disbandment of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the main instrument used to found and fund the Crisis Coalition in Zimbabwe!
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