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Tsvangirai not to betray Zimbabweans
Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe’s opposition leader, on Saturday sought to reclaim the initiative in his country’s political crisis, saying he would return to his homeland...
Horrific recounts of terror and desperation in Zimbabwe
On Friday, I spent the whole day in Plumtree area, a border town with Botswana where I heard horrific accounts. Villagers I spoke to,...
Kenya : Brutal killing of World Food Programme head
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today that unidentified gunmen shot dead the head of WFP's office in the northwestern Kenyan town...
Thabo Mbeki goes to Zimbabwe again
South African President Thabo Mbeki was due in Zimbabwe Friday for crisis talks with President Robert Mugabe over an election impasse and politically-motivated violence...
Mozambique cuts power supplies to Zimbabwe
Mozambique is to cut power supplies to Zimbabwe by half to 100 megawatts from Friday (9May) due to maintenance work at its power station,...
Zimbabwe: Mbeki on a one day visit to Harare
South African president Thabo Mbeki will visit the Zimbabwean capital on Friday according to AFP. Mbeki has been chosen as mediator between the two...
Air Zimbabwe plane catches fire
A London-bound Air Zimbabwe Boeing 767, carrying over 90 passengers, burst into flames at Malawi's Lilongwe International Airport Thursday when it aborted a take-off...
Tens of thousands of local Zimbabwean farmers violently removed
An estimated 40 000 farm workers and their dependants have been violently removed from farms countrywide rendering them homeless and ZANU-PF ...
Zimbabwe : Two parties demand another recount
The election impasse in Zimbabwe deepened Wednesday after two political parties lodged fresh petitions challenging parliamentary results in 105 constituencies.
The southern African country held...
Foreign Exchange rates skyrocket in Zimbabwe
Exchange rates in Zimbabwe, artificially fixed by the government for a long time, shot up sharply on Wednesday after the central bank liberalised them...
Zimbabwe police arrest and detain seven peaceful protestors
Police in Zimbabwe on Wednesday arrested seven members of a pressure group, Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), which staged a peaceful demonstration...
Zimbabwe : Zanu-PF issues licence to kill
A group of Zanu-PF youth militants, one of whom was dressed in Zimbabwean army uniform and armed with an AK47 assault rifle, launched an...
Zimbabwe inflation : 250 million dollar bills now in circulation
As Zimbabwe sinks deeper into an inflation spiral, the central bank Tuesday introduced two new higher denomination notes of Z$100,000,000 and Z$250,000,000 for the...
Zimbabwe run-off could take up to a year
Zimbabwe's electoral commission has said it will soon decide the date for a second round of presidential elections, amid mounting tension as the...
Zimbabwe: teachers on strike against post electoral violence
The Progressive Teachers Union, in Zimbabwe, threatened to go on strike if they continued to be targets of post electoral violence according to United...
Football : First round results of the African Nations Championship qualifiers
Nigeria's home-based Super Eagles Sunday beat their visiting counterparts from Burkina Faso 2-0 in their first leg, first round qualifiers of the African Nations...
Zimbabwe : Tsvangirai’s dilemma
Zimbabwe’s opposition faced a difficult decision on Friday night over whether to contest a presidential run-off after the long-delayed official election results were finally...
Archbishop Ncube’s lover dies
ROSEMARY Sibanda, the woman at the centre of the infidelity storm that engulfed the then Archbishop Pius Ncube, and eventually forced him to quit,...
Makoni, Tsvangirai’s ally
Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has won the first round of a presidential election against Robert Mugabe with 47.9% of the vote, an election...
Nigerian gov’t under fire for Zimbabwe stalemate silence
The Nigerian government is under tremendous pressure to break its silence on the election impasse in Zimbabwe, as the electoral authorities in the Southern...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe pleads for run-off
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe called for opposition to accept the run-off he proposed according to Al Jazeera. During a meeting this Thursday Mugabe...
Robert Mugabe gains support from Namibian workers union
Namibia's umbrella workers' union has condemned the ongoing international attack on the Zimbabwean government, saying workers still have fresh memories of the agonies of...
Children under great threat in post election violence
Children are not being spared the impact of Zimbabwe's post-election violence.
The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Zimbabwe told IRIN its work was being...
Interest rates raised in Zimbabwe
The Central Bank in Zimbabwe, citing high inflation, Wednesday increased interest rates to dampen consumptive and speculative borrowing. In a statement, bank governor Gideon...
Zimbabwe inflation reaches 200% World bank steps in
A World Bank senior official on Wednesday said the international donors are ready to help Zimbabwe's ailing economy recover as soon as the government...
Zimbabwe: UN refuses opposition bid for envoy
According to CNN the UN refused the MDC demand to send an envoy to Zimbabwe, with this refusal from the Security Council the responsibility...
Zimbabwe : Party reveals results of presidential elections
Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change last night circulated statistical evidence to the press to back up its claim that it won with an...
Mugabe – Mbeki alliance shaky
No official results have been released exactly one month after presidential elections were held in Zimbabwe on March 29th. The two main parties involved...
Zimbabwe: 185 MDC supporters released
Close to 200 supporters of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) were released from police custody earlier today according to Reuters. They had been...
Scared teachers stay home as schools reopen
Schools are supposed to reopen today for the second term countrywide after a five week long break. But that is not the case here....