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Zimbabwe: Opposition agrees to form unity government to help end misery.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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Text of report by South Africa-based ZimOnline website on 30 January; subheadings inserted editorially

[Report by Wayne Mafaro: "Tsvangirai puts head on the block as MDC joins unity government"]

Harare: Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said his MDC [Movement for Democratic Change] party had agreed to join a unity government with President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party to play a role in ending Zimbabwe's misery and hoping it would be treated as an equal partner.

"We are going into this government because this is what the national council has resolved," Tsvangirai told journalists on Friday, moments after the decision-making council elected to join the unity government that will also include a breakaway faction of the opposition led by Arthur Mutambara. "I have no doubt about the capacity of this party to play its role. We are aware of the …

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