Who is in charge?

With President Robert Mugabe going to Dubai on business at the same time having snubbed the EU-Africa Summit in Brussels and in a week in which his government officers, current and former, were at each other’s throats on issues from ethanol, coal, airplanes, diamonds, partisan media coverage to foreign affairs, the question has to be asked: Is there anyone in charge in Zimbabwe?

Mugabe is a strongman, one of the last few standing in Africa, who is not generally associated with indecision. Whether right or wrong, he has in the past stuck to his positions and also articulates them openly.

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