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Corruption: Zimbabwe health workers creating artificial HIV drug shortages
A private grouping of lawyers in Zimbabwe has claimed that there is rampant corruption at government hospitals and municipal clinics as HIV and Aids...
Zimbabwe: Security forces draw swords over shot officers
Zimbabwe police and the dreaded Central Intelligence Organization have declared war on each other after a round of fatal shootings over the weekend left...
Africa: Behind the race for Education for all by 2015
African countries have the unhealthiest environment for school-age children a new report has claimed. Children in Somalia, Eritrea, Comoros, Ethiopia, Chad, Burkina Faso, Central...
Majority of Zimbabweans fed up with Mugabe, poll shows
A new poll survey released this week in Zimbabwe has shown that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirais’s party, MDC would win the next general elections...
Mugabe gets pay rise as Zimbabwe struggles with salary related strikes
Zimbabwe's all time ruler, Robert Mugabe has been granted a pay rise of almost 400 per cent at a time when civil servants are...
Crisis hits Air Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's struggling airline, Air Zimbabwe operations have grounded to a halt after 60 pilots embarked on an indefinite work stoppage Wednesday demanding payment of...
Zimbabwe to adopt Chinese currency?
Zimbabwe’s Vice President Joice Mujuru on Monday suggested that the southern African country, which currently has no currency of its own, should adopt the...
Maputo riots blamed on rising wheat prices in Southern Africa
Food riots in Maputo, Mozambique on Wednesday left at least six protesters dead including a female student as police sprayed bullets at demonstrators.
Reports from...
Zimbabwe government accused of promoting teen sex
Zimbabwe government has defended its controversial decision to grant
parental leave to schoolgirls who fall pregnant as parents accused it of promoting teen sex.
In August,...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe lambasts Black farmers
Zimbabwe's long-time ruler, President Robert Mugabe on Sunday stunned black farmers as he questioned their agriculture skills saying the current new crop of farmers...
South Africa’s battle against cowardice
Considering the new wave of xenophobic attacks against black Zimbabweans, some black South Africans now have conceded that they are a brood of insecure,...
Zimbabwe: Vices and virtues of a multi-currency economy
The first learning point I have encountered is that adopting the use of ‘foreign’ currency as legal tender in one’s country has very little...
Zimbabwe in electoral reform bid
An election monitoring group in Zimbabwe has called on authorities to scrap controversial postal votes for police and instead introduce a new special voting...
Zimbabwe: Purpose of Gaddafi visit unclear
Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi's son, Lieutenant-Colonel Engineer Saadi Muammar al-Gaddafi and his entourage were on Thursday detained at Harare International Airport for two hours...
UK gets ready to send thousands of Zimbabweans back home
Zimbabwean nationals who were denied asylum in the United Kingdom face renewed deportation threats after a United Kingdom Border Agency fact-finding team visited Harare...
Southern African region joins Zimbabwe in dismal press rankings
Press freedom rankings conducted by Freedom House, an international watchdog has revealed that Zimbabwe is still ranked as the lowest in the
Southern African...
Tsvangirai and Zuma to lock horns over Zimbabwe GPA at SADC
Zimbabwe’s premier Morgan Tsvangirai and South African leader Jacob Zuma look headed for collision at the SADC summit in Namibia on Monday, with statements...
Zimbabwe’s controversial diamond auction opens
Scores of international diamond buyers thronged Harare, Zimbabwe on
Wednesday for the sale of the controversial gems from Marange Diamond
fields after a ban was lifted.
Abbey...
Why African football teams have shunned Zimbabwe
Match fixing scandals in Zimbabwe linking top football officials, players and Asian bookmakers have forced foreign national teams to shun playing the Warriors during...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s amnesty plea for criminals condemned
The Movement for Democratic Change and human rights activists in Zimbabwe have expressed outrage at President Mugabe's call for amnesty to perpetrators of politically...
Zimbabwe: Diplomatic row begins after Mugabe’s funeral comments
Zimbabwe’s Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi Tuesday summoned three Western ambassadors to his office and demanded an
explanation of their walk out on President Mugabe...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s undiplomatic speech angers officials
A damaging diplomatic row was brewing in Harare Monday with western
diplomats indicating that they would leave Zimbabwe after President
Mugabe told them to ‘go to...
Zimbabwe: Sabina Mugabe’s hero status raises eyebrows
Zimbabwe's president Mugabe on Sunday used the burial of his sister as a platform to bolster his previous stand that “Western world must...
Zimbabwe judiciary remains precarious
Zimbabwe’s judiciary system is being kept under President Mugabe’s wraps through financial inducements and threats of physical harm with the new coalition government doing...
Zimbabwe: Chilling tales of abuse of African immigrants emerge
Scores of asylum seekers from African countries are languishing in Zimbabwe prisons with hardened criminals as most of them are quickly
arrested by authorities upon...
Zimbabwe: Early Zanu-PF campaign jingles ‘alienate voters’
Propaganda songs praising President Mugabe have re-surfaced on Zimbabwe’s heavily state controlled radio and television and are causing a storm in the political circles.
The...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s Zanu-PF to face ICC
A United States based Aids advocacy group is planning in August to hand over what it says is evidence on politically motivated rapes committed...
Zimbabwe: Zanu Pf agents in uniformed forces get double salaries
Zimbabwe’s secret agents planted in the country’s uniformed forces have been awarded a double salary from the rest of the civil servants as a...
Zimbabwean authorities distance themselves from Mugabe’s killer aide
A policeman tasked with protecting Zimbabwe’s First Lady Grace Mugabe
shot his wife nine times at the weekend citing infidelity. However, Zimbabwean authorities have...
Zimbabwe child food security dips
United Nations Food and Nutrition Council has said more than a third of Zimbabwe’s children aged below five are malnourished while 12 000 in...