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Zimbabwe police deny favouritism and brutality accusations
The MDC says 10 of its supporters have been killed in the violence while 3000 others have been displaced from their homes, in what...
Three constituencies still waiting to vote in Zimbabwe
An independent candidate has filed an urgent court application to force Robert Mugabe and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to order elections in a...
Babies and children locked up in Zimbabwe prisons
Twenty-four babies and 40 children under the age of six are hold up in
Southerton Police cells after police raid MDC offices...
Several die in Zimbabwe accident
Eleven people were killed and several others injured in Zimbabwe Saturday when the bus they were travelling in was involved in an accident near...
Southern Africa to hold protest marches
South Africa’s labour movement and other civic groups are planning to stage weekly marches and protests against Robert Mugabe’s government they accuse of...
MDC headquarters raided, hundreds forcefully arrested
Riot police on Friday carried out their first major crackdown on the MDC when they raided its headquarters detaining scores of people.
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Southern Africa could impose travel sanctions on Zimbabwe gov’t
The Southern African Development Community is showing signs of being fed up with Zimbabwe and has given Saturday as the day for the Zimbabwe...
Zimbabwe : Activists seek arms embargo and sacking Mbeki
African civil rights activists have called for an urgent African Union (AU) Summit to take a decision on the post-election crisis in Zimbabwe, including...
Africa to refuse cargo flights from China to Zimbabwe in their airspace
South Africa's official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) Thursday called on the governments of Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia to deny overflight rights to cargo...
Panick strikes Zimbabwe as hospitals choke with tortured victims
Doctors at two secret medical centers set up in Harare and Bulawayo
speak of being overwhelmed with patients suffering burns,...
Zimbabwe cancels Common Market summit
Zimbabwe, embroiled in an election crisis, Thursday announced it was calling off the summit of the Common Market for Central and Southern Africa (Comesa)...
Zimbabwe: Chinese arms ship called back home
Al Jazeera reports that the An Yue Jiang, a Chinese ship containing arms destined to Zimbabwe, has called back by Chinese government according to...
Arms embargo on Zimbabwe advocated by Archbishop
The new Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, the Reverend Thabo Makgoba, Wednesday called on the UN Security Council to impose an arms...
ZANU PF retains seats after partial vote recount
ZIMBABWE'S ruling Zanu PF party has retained its House of Assembly and Senate seats in the first result announced from a partial recount...
State run newspaper in Zimbabwe calls for transitional government
The state run Herald news paper called for a transitional government headed by Robert Mugabe according to BBC News. The news paper claims that...
Tsvangirai promises to protect Mugabe once in power
Zimbabwean opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which claims it won last month's controversial presidential election, will not hurt President Robert Mugabe, when it...
Story of an American ex Mugabe prisoner
It has been an amazing experience to say the least what with living in Johannesburg, South Africa as the city and country continue to...
Zuma slams Mbeki over Zimbabwe
ANC president, Zuma, called for African leaders to move into Zimbabwe quickly to resolve the crisis adding When I say leaders should go (to...
China questioned about Zimbabwe arms ship
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has commended South Africa and Mozambique for not allowing their territories to be used to offload the heavy Chinese weaponry...
Chinese arms ship not welcome in Africa
Zimbabwean authorities yesterday said the cash-strapped government
has a right to buy arms from any legal source as long as they are
needed to...
Zimbabwe minister admits Chinese arms import
Zimbabwe Monday confirmed a Chinese ship that was refused permission to unload its cargo in South Africa this week was carrying arms. Justice Minister...
African observers say vote recount is heavily flawed
A South African member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) observer team Monday said the recount of votes in a number of constituencies...
Zimbabwe vote recount also delayed
Election officials in Zimbabwe said Monday the results of controversial parliamentary vote recounts in 23 constituencies, which started on Saturday, would be delayed beyond...
Tsvangirai in Nigeria, Mugabe accused of senile dementia
Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe's main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), arrived in Nigeria early Monday to confer with former President Olusegun Obasanjo...
SADC ignores Zimbabwe issue
Norway and the European Union on Sunday urged southern African leaders to resolve the political crisis in Zimbabwe as their credibility was at stake....
Tsvangirai visits Nigeria
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was being expected in Nigeria Sunday evening to confer with former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the Southern African nation's...
Presidents and UN secretary in Ghana to discuss Zimbabwe and Darfur
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon arrived in Accra on Saturday night on the first-leg of a four-nation West African tour, during which he will participate...
Mbeki a longtime Mugabe ally …
South African President Thabo Mbeki has been lampooned and condemned across the world for saying there is "no crisis" in Zimbabwe on his brief...
South African party calls for Mbeki to step down
Kenneth Meshoe, President of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), on Friday added his voice to the calls for South African President Thabo Mbeki...
Several torture camps discovered in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's ZANU-PF party is using a network of informal detention centres to beat, torture, and intimidate opposition activists and ordinary Zimbabweans, Human Rights Watch...