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Southern African countries zero in on Gaddafi assets
Following South Africa's decision to freeze all Gaddafi’s assets in accordance with UN Security Council resolution Zambia has sought clarification on whether the resolution...
Treason cases split Zimbabwe lawyers association
On-going treason trials in Zimbabwe have split an influential grouping of human rights lawyers over accusations of rampant partisan representation and neglect of arrested...
Zimbabwe mass graves: Cloud of suspicion hangs over Mugabe’s Zanu-pf
The discovery of 19 mass graves and exhumation of remains of an estimated 5 000 people from disused mines in Zimbabwe’s Mt Darwin district...
Namibia and Zimbabwe politicians confront new technology
Following the recent 'Twitter-Facebook inspired revolutions’ in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and other Middle East countries, Namibian leader, President Hifikepunye Pohamba, has sent a strong...
Turmoil hits Zimbabwe political scene
Thursday March 11, would be recorded as one of the busiest days in
Zimbabwean politics after rulings by country's Supreme Court affected two MDC ministers....
Zimbabwe: Election year terror and treason under Mugabe
After threatening to dissolve Parliament and call for elections during a visit to Singapour last month, Zimbabwe's aging leader, President Robert Mugabe, has began...
Cremation of dead espoused in Southern Africa
In most Africa cultures cremation is largely considered a taboo but due to increasing shortage of land it is now being touted as...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe calls for foreign product boycott
Veteran Zimbabwean ruler, Mr Robert Mugabe has ordered an immediate product boycott of all foreign firms operating in Zimbabwe, particularly European, in a bid...
Botswana warns Libya amid suspected Zimbabwe mercenaries
Botswana, a small Southern African nation has threatened to cut all diplomatic ties with strife-torn Libya while its neighbour, Zimbabwe, is
suspected of having mercenaries...
Zimbabwe: Wives of officials off EU sanctions list
Thirty five Zimbabweans, mainly wives of President Robert Mugabe's close associates, who where on European Union travel sanctions have been let off the...
11 year old girl suffers 8 month rape ordeal by 14 men
An 11 year-old girl was raped by 14 men, including eight juveniles and six grown up men, for a period spanning eight months.
Police in...
Teenage boy shocks court after raping 12yr old boy
A Zimbabwean teenage-boy stunned a local court by boldly telling a magistrate that anal sex was “brilliant” following accusations that he forced a 12-year-old...
Fuel crisis hits Southern African countries amid protests
Malawians are bracing for demonstrations countrywide by end February to protest against persistent chronic fuel shortage saying they are prepared to be shot at....
Miss Zimbabwe pageant, an uncomfortable political event
The prestigious Miss Tourism Zimbabwe beauty pageant was on Sunday morning (February 13) hijacked by the military and Zanu PF officials who scrambled to...
Human trafficking and sex slave rings on the rise in Southern Africa
Human trafficking between Zimbabwe and South Africa has reached alarming proportions as an average of 7000 people per month are said to be involved....
Nigerian businesses looted in Harare Zimbabwe
Property worth thousands of dollars went up in smoke after looters from Zanu PF militia went on rampage at Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, targeting foreign...
When the Mugabes become a sexual joke in Zimbabwe
Frustrated Zimbabweans seem to have discovered a new hobby as they ridicule their aging president, Robert Mugabe and his young wife, Grace.
Frustrated Zimbabweans seem...
Zimbabwe: Youth votes blocked ahead of polls
Youths in Zimbabwe who form the backbone of the country’s political parties are being systematically barred from registering as voters, for the country's impending...
SA HIV campaign condemned as Zimbabwe announces soaring rates
South African health authorities will soon lunch a highly criticised HIV testing campaign for schools. But Parents, backed by several groups, believe that the...
Anger as Addis AU summit names Mugabe as Ivory Coast mediator
Africa Union leaders currently meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, have roped in one of their controversial counterparts, Robert Mugabe, to mediate in the Ivory...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe and Tsvangirai guilty of violent abuses?
The international human rights organization Human Rights Watch says Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Morgan Tsvangirai, has no capacity to stop rampant...
Zimbabwe officials plan pro-Mugabe and ZANU-PF campaign
One of Robert Mugabe’s trusted spin-doctors has rubbished off possibilities of Tunisian-type street protests in the country to topple the veteran ruler. Meanwhile, massive...
Zambian separatists in treason charge as regional secession battles grow
Several Zambians, accused of clamoring for the secession of Barotseland in the western part of the country, were on Wednesday (19 January) dragged to...
Zimbabwe’s anti-colonialist agenda a ‘bizarre arrangement’
In Zimbabwe, children as young as 5 would, as of February, be subjected to national service training as part of efforts by ZANU-PF to...
Zimbabwe workers set to cripple fragile economy
Zimbabwean civil servants who number more than 200 000 have issued a seven day ultimatum to the crisis ridden inclusive administration over salaries.
Zimbabwean civil...
Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia brace for more floods
Flood alerts have been issued across the Southern Africa region as heavy rains continue to pound the region. The rains have claimed more than...
Zimbabwe: A break-up in the offing?
A new political movement in Zimbabwe under the name Mthwakazi Liberation Front is calling for the country to be divided into two separate entities,...
Zimbabweans in South Africa risk deportation after passport office fire
A centralized governance system in Zimbabwe has come under attack by
citizens after the southern African country's entire passports processing center was gutted by fire,...
2011 elections in Zambia and Zimbabwe could be bloody
The 2011 elections in Zambia have been predicted to become the bloodiest ever if the government does not put in place measures to stop...
Zimbabwe threatens Prime Minister with treason
Zimbabwe’s controversial Attorney-General Johannes Tomana is setting up a commission of five lawyers to explore the possibility of charging the country's Prime Minister, Morgan...