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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...
South Africa: A deliberate move to deport Zimbabwean immigrants?
Thousands of Zimbabweans living in South Africa face a gloomy Christmas as they have just under 10 days left before a December 31 deadline...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe calls for sanctions against foreign-based companies
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on Friday told his party to push for a law making it treasonous for Zimbabweans to call for sanctions...
Zimbabwe: Lawyers mend Mugabe family image after Wikileaks
Lawyers for Zimbabwe’s First Family, the Mugabes, have, in recent weeks, been busy repairing the damaged image of their clients shortly after revelations from...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s Zanu-PF to spend half a million on bash
Zimbabwe's former ruling party, Zanu-PF, is set to blow close to $500,000 in five days when it gathers for its annual Christmas bash disguised...
Wikileaks cites Tsvangirai, Museveni anti-Mugabe campaign
Zimbabwe’s premier Morgan Tsvangirai privately urged Western countries to maintain sanctions against the southern African nation but publicly back calls for their removal, latest...
Zimbabwe: Wikileaks gives impetus to Mugabe’s anti-MDC rhetoric
The controversial WikiLeaks website which is giving Foreign ministers
headaches world-over has provided Zimbabwe incontrovertible evidence
that USA was collaborating with the MDC to overthrow President...
Zimbabwe’s unwanted groups on anti gender violence day
Police blocked dozens of gays and sex workers from taking part in a belated launch procession commemorating 16 days of Activism Against Violence Against...
Zimbabwe: Magube and Zanu officials own massive farms after land reform
Almost 5 million hectares of prime agricultural land which include wildlife conservancies grabbed from productive white commercial farmers in Zimbabwe are in the hands...
Zimbabwe: Police intimidate journalists ahead of 2011 polls
Zimbabwean police have arrested a second journalist from a private newspaper in as many weeks on charges of publishing an article that undermines confidence...
Zimbabwe: Man in court with own intestines in bag
Shortfalls in Zimbabwe's health sector was highlighted last Wednesday, when a man awaiting trial for stealing motor cycles turned up in court holding his...
Zimbabwe’s “juice card” economy
After announcing to Zimbabweans in 2009 that cigarette and alcohol taxes had sustained their crumbling economy, despite the country's vast untapped diamond reserves, Finance...
Zimbabwe: Tendai Biti cuts Mugabe’s election budget request
Crucial elections in troubled Zimbabwe are now closer to reality after
Finance minister Tendai Biti on Thursday, November 25 set aside under
Treasury an “unallocated contingency...
Mobile clinics in Southern African region to fight HIV-AIDS
Southern African region which carries the highest burden of the deadly HIV-AIDS in the world is planning to launch a string of mobile HIV/AIDS...
Zimbabwe to suffer food shortages ahead of elections
Non-governmental organizations, which have for the past decade been saviors for starving Zimbabweans, now face a ban on their operations in the build up...
Zimbabwe: South Korean investment agreements “null and void”
Zimbabwe has in the last 18 months experienced countless investment
conferences and international delegations primarily “to explore investment opportunities”. But recent investment agreements between Morgan...
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai to take Mugabe to court over GPA abuse
Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister has expressed his frustration with what he has described as President Mugabe’s arrogance and announced that his party will "consider taking...
Zimbabwe: Destitution and fear among remaining White farmers
A handful of Zimbabwe’s remaining white farmers say security in the commercial farms was deteriorating at an alarming rate following the Monday, October...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe, the serial 86 year-old cuckold
Zimbabwe’s First Lady Grace Mugabe's inexhaustible extra-marital affairs seem to be claiming more lives with the latest being her husband bodyguard,
senior police commissioner Cain...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe seeking a hasty end to coalition?
Zimbabwe's electoral commission says it is waiting for the nod from President Robert Mugabe to organize parliamentary and presidential elections in 2011.
“Our mandate is...
The ancient coin that gives impetus to China-Africa trade
An ancient Chinese coin that dates from the 15th century, discovered on the northern coast of Kenya, reveals the existence of advanced commercial and...
Swine/H1N1 Flu resurfaces in Southern Africa
The southern African nation of Zimbabwe’s health infrastructure has come under the spotlight after a new outbreak of the deadly influenza H1N1, commonly known...
Ian Khama, from Mugabe critic to advocate?
Botswana President Ian Khama, a strident critic of his southern
counterpart Robert Mugabe, seems to be "slowly awakening to an African
cause" as he begins touring...
Zimbabwe asked to strike death penalty as African death row statistics fall
Amnesty International (AI) is appealing to rival Zimbabwe’s political leaders to abolish the death penalty as the southern African nation is attempting to craft...
Shock over Zimbabwe’s hard gang-raping women
An unprecedented high rate of women gang-raping men in Zimbabwe has
baffled the country and has forced police boss to institute full scale
investigations into the...
Ethiopia, Ghana and ten African countries get medical education grants
The United States will invest $130 million over the next five years to transform African medical education and increase the number of health care...
Zimbabwe: Male prisoners to get condoms
People doing jail time in Zimbabwe’s overcrowded and squalid prisons may soon be receiving an array of contraceptives in a bid to prevent...
Zimbabwe: Morgan Tsvangirai to step down from MDC
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is expected to step down as leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) next year in line with...
Great Zimbabwe: An African empire
Built by the Shona (1100-1500 AD), the empire of Great Zimbabwe, one of Africa's greatest civilizations like Egypt and Meroe, stood between present-day Zimbabwe,...
Zimbabwe PM Tsvangirai, Chinese poet Liu tipped to win Nobel Peace Prize
For the second year running, Zimbabwean Premier Morgan Tsvangirai has
been tipped to win the Nobel Peace Prize after bookmakers listed him
among hopefuls to land...