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Zambia calls for emergency SADC meeting to solve Zimbabwe impasse
Zambia's President Levy Mwanawasa has summoned heads of state of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for an extraordinary summit in Lusaka following what...
MDC plans to boycott ZANU-PF imposed election rerun
Last night the opposition MDC hinted that it might boycott the anticipated rerun of the March 29 Presidential election, insisting it...
MDC begs for help from African states as Mugabe resorts to violence
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change appealed to African states to intervene in Zimbabwe’s escalating political crisis on Tuesday, and gave warning of the...
Mugabe sends troops to start violence to back state of emergency
An amazing 200 top Zimbabwe Defence Forces have been deployed countrywide to spearhead an orgy of violence while drumming up support...
EU worried, Mbeki indifferent as Mugabe plots state of emergency to stay
Robert Mugabe – who is clinging to power despite widespread belief that he resoundingly lost the March 29 polls is unreachable
This was disclosed by...
Court rules in favour of MDC’s petition
The High Court in Zimbabwe Tuesday ruled an opposition petition demanding the release of the results of a presidential vote was urgent , and...
Zimbabwe : Five arrested for election fraud
Police in Zimbabwe said Tuesday they had arrested five election officials for allegedly tampering with votes in the disputed 29 March presidential poll. The...
Zuma meets Tsvangirai while Mugabe arrests ZEC officials
South Africa’s African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma is desperate to mediate on the Zimbabwean political impasse.
from our correspondent in Harare
The...
Court to rule in election poll result release after nine days
The High Court in Zimbabwe Monday ruled it had jurisdiction over an opposition application to force an elections body to release delayed results of...
South Africa worried about Zimbabwe stalemate
South Africa's official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) Sunday called on President Thabo Mbeki to urgently consider requesting that the African Union's Peace and Security...
Mugabe orders seizure of remaining white owned farms
Incumbent leader Robert Mugabe has called Zimbabweans to protect their land from whites, stoking emotive land issues as the country anxiously awaited presidential...
Zimbabwe : Uncovering Mugabe’s prelude to electoral fraud
As the drama of Zimbabwe's landmark March 29 election unfolds, Dianne Kohler Banard, Member of Parliament and spokesperson of the Democratic Alliance (DA) of...
Hundreds of people affected by cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe
Health officials in northern Zimbabwe said Sunday a prolonged outbreak of cholera in the area had killed 20 people and affected more than 200...
Trounced Mugabe wants votes recounted
President Robert Mugabe has demanded a vote recount of last week's presidential poll before results are released, state media reported Sunday.
The official Sunday Mail...
Election court case to be ruled on Sunday
The High Court in Zimbabwe is expected to rule Sunday (today) in an opposition petition to force the national elections body to release delayed...
Court case against ZEC opens amid threats from pro-Mugabe war vets
THE MILITANT Veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation war on Friday evening vowed to seize the remaining white-owned commercial farms if Robert Mugabe loses the...
Zimbabwe : senatorial poll results
After a 24-hour pause, election officials in Zimbabwe Friday resumed announcing senatorial poll results, with the ruling party taking a one-seat lead. A total...
Outcome of Mugabe meeting : Plans to buy time
ZANU-PF party has decided that its leader Robert Mugabe should contest a run-off vote against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai if neither wins a...
Zimbabwe : Arrest of New York Times’ journalist fuels alarm
A global media freedom watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed alarm over the arrest and detention of "New York Times" correspondent, Barry...
An archbishop’s sex scandal that turned political
A case which is currently before the courts in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second capital could easily find a place in the Guinness Book of records...
Why Mugabe has called for an emergency meeting
ZANU PF politburo meets today in Harare to discuss the biggest challenge to President Robert Mugabe’s 28-year rule. Ruling Zanu-PF party sources said the...
A 50m dollar bill and MDC’s first promised sack
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) today introduced a new Z$50 million note to deal with rampant shortages of cash in an economy...
New bank notes for Zimbabwe
The Central Bank in Zimbabwe on Thursday introduced higher denomination ZWD25 million and ZWD50 million bank notes, as inflation surge d to 165,000 per...
Zimbabwe : Inflation at 165 000 %
It seems it never rains, but pours for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
Hours after elections officials Thursday declared his party had lost for the first...
Parties tie in zimbabwe senate polls
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) Thursday began announcing the delayed results of senatorial elections held at the weekend, with the ruling party and opposition...
Telephone services in Zimbabwe jammed
Fixed and mobile phone lines have been jammed as Zimbabweans try to find out the outcome of their elections.
from our correspondent...
Zimbabwe elections : Makoni to decide presidential winner
The MDC’s stunning success in the hinterlands –for long the bedrock of Mugabe’s success – was the key to unlocking Mugabe’s stranglehold on power....
Zimbabwe’s new opposition : How Mugabe’s close allies won
ZANU PF has lost control of Zimbabwe’s parliament in the biggest power shift since the country won independence from Britain in 1980. Robert...
Zimbabwe’s opposition no more the Opposition
Taking the leading position in the general election vote count increases the opposition’s chances of winning the presidential elections against Robert Mugabe. The opposition...
Europe intervenes in Zimbabwe election stalemate
The European Union on Wednesday made an urgent appeal to the Zimbabwe election commission to publish without delay the official results of the 29...