Tsvangirai discusses Zimbabwe economy at White House meeting with Obama

CU of Tsvangirai After a five-day trip to the United States, Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai joined U.S. President Barack Obama in the Oval Office for a press conference to discuss their negotiations for helping Zimbabwe emerge from its economic and political decay. Obama pledged to provide $73 million in direct aid to ZimbabweÕs non-government sector in order to catalyze the institutional reforms necessary for the Zimbabwean people to elect their own government. Tsvangirai: "I've been explaining to the President that Zimbabwe is coming out of a political conflict and economic collapse or decay, and that the new political dispensation we have crafted is an attempt to arrest this decay..."