Read more coalition government stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/23696/coalition-government.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 7:32:54 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71895/tsvangirai-boycotts-unity-government-in-zimbabwe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagZimbabwe PM Morgan Tsvangirai’s party will boycott Cabinet meetings and cut off communication with president Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF, theoretically its partner in government. The move accompanies growing anger among members of Tsvangirai’s MDC over Mugabe’s strong-arm tactics and the jailing of a Cabinet minister-designate, the New York Times reports.http://www.newser.com/story/71895/tsvangirai-boycotts-unity-government-in-zimbabwe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 16 Oct 2009 13:25:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70856/kenya-feels-betrayed-by-brother-barack.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagKenyans adore Barack Obama, affectionately calling him “Brother Barack,” but they’re starting to get the feeling he doesn’t love them back. The Obama administration has been far harder on Kenya diplomatically than its predecessor, Time reports. Last week Washington threatened to keep 15 senior officials from entering the US and...http://www.newser.com/story/70856/kenya-feels-betrayed-by-brother-barack.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 02 Oct 2009 14:52:55 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57553/kenyan-women-use-sex-strike-to-sway-politics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagKenyan women are withholding sex in hopes of forcing an end to the squabbling that threatens to break the government's fragile coalition and plunge the nation into chaos, the AP reports. Thousands of members of 11 women's groups are participating in the week-long strike, and they have asked the wives...http://www.newser.com/story/57553/kenyan-women-use-sex-strike-to-sway-politics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 29 Apr 2009 12:23:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54193/labor-party-set-to-join-far-right-israeli-govt.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBenjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister-designate, has reached a deal with Ehud Barak that would see Barak's center-left Labor Party join an otherwise hard-right coalition, reports Haaretz . Barak, a former PM, is expected to retain his current post of defense minister in the new government. But Labor is divided over...http://www.newser.com/story/54193/labor-party-set-to-join-far-right-israeli-govt.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 24 Mar 2009 6:20:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/53883/zimbabwe-sees-hope-as-mugabes-grip-weakens.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGains are fragile and much work remains, but opposition lawmakers in Zimbabwe's new coalition government finally see hope that they can weaken Robert Mugabe and put the nation on track, the New York Times reports. Donor nations are pressuring for better economic policies, a free press, and other reforms, and...http://www.newser.com/story/53883/zimbabwe-sees-hope-as-mugabes-grip-weakens.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 20 Mar 2009 8:40:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/53884/leftist-party-could-join-israel-government.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBenjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister-designate of Israel, has been given an extra two weeks to form a government after a breakthrough in talks with Ehud Barak, the leader of the Labor Party and the country's outgoing defense minister. While Netanyahu has been ready to complete his right-wing cabinet this week,...http://www.newser.com/story/53884/leftist-party-could-join-israel-government.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 20 Mar 2009 7:19:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/53440/ultranationalist-will-be-israels-foreign-minister.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBenjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister-designate of Israel, signed a deal last night that will see hard-right politician Avigdor Lieberman become the country's foreign minister. As Haaretz reports, Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu party will receive several other major portfolios in the new government, including internal security. Lieberman advocates forcing Arab Israelis to...http://www.newser.com/story/53440/ultranationalist-will-be-israels-foreign-minister.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 16 Mar 2009 6:36:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/50711/livni-running-out-of-options-and-time.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThough her party nabbed first place in Tuesday's Israeli election, Tzipi Livni seems to have shelved her long-shot effort to become the country's next prime minister. The question that remains, writes the Los Angeles Times , is whether she will join forces with Benjamin Netanyahu or go into opposition. "Livni, the...http://www.newser.com/story/50711/livni-running-out-of-options-and-time.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 13 Feb 2009 6:42:31 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/50593/israeli-rivals-move-toward-consensus.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhile Israel's two possible leaders continued negotiations with smaller parties, a consensus has grown that Likud and Kadima will join forces in a national unity government. According to senior sources in both parties, Benjamin Netanyahu will serve as prime minister, while Tzipi Livni will remain foreign minister. Haaretz also suggests...http://www.newser.com/story/50593/israeli-rivals-move-toward-consensus.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 12 Feb 2009 7:04:54 CST