South Africa Current Event (1)

SADC leaders fail to break Zimbabwe impasse.

This link links to an article found on NewZimbabwe, an online Zimbabwean news network. 

The article talks about how, yet again, the South Asian Development Council has failed to end hostilities between President Mugabe and opposition Leader Morgan Tsvangirai. The old attempt at equality, a power sharing deal between the two, has collapesed in a dispute of control over the powerful Home Affairs Office. The two stand at opposite ends of the spectrum. Even with eminent speaker President Kgalema Motlanthe of South Africa leading the approach, committee members failed to organize a strategy to heal the rift.  Meanwhile, the inflation rate of Zimbabwe is still rising, and coupled with a breakdown of basic services has led to complete panic across the capitol. So while a country slowly tears itself apart, it's two most powerful leaders spend their time bickering.

This news is relevant for a few reasons.  The first one is Impact, because if this problem is not sorted out, its going to change the lives of many Zimbabweans for the worse. Also Conflict, because apparently, the rivalry between Mugabe and Tsvangirai  has been going on for a while.  Timeliness and Relevance are also legitimate reasons, because this story affects almost all of the "local" community in Zimbabwe, and the story is pretty recent, and is still going on.