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Zimbabweans: Why they Starve

Zimbabweans: Why they Starve

Robert Mugabe’s brutal thirty year-old reign in Zimbabwe, compounded by a frenzied ten-year mutilation of property rights is once again on the cover page...
Zimbabwe: Oscar winning Prudence Mabhena’s runaway parents reappear

Zimbabwe: Oscar winning Prudence Mabhena’s runaway parents reappear

A Zimbabwe man who fathered but abandoned a Oscar Award winning disabled woman for a decade is now begging for forgiveness. Mkhokheli Mabhena, on...
Zimbabwe: Zuma’s tough negotiations with Zanu-Pf and MDC emerge

Zimbabwe: Zuma’s tough negotiations with Zanu-Pf and MDC emerge

Finer details of South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma mediation trip to Zimbabwe are starting to emerge. Last week, Zuma spent two days in...
Zimbabwe: Zuma’s closed door negotiations to lead to early elections?

Zimbabwe: Zuma’s closed door negotiations to lead to early elections?

South African President Jacob Zuma left Harare Thursday night after claiming that he made tremendous progress in his first trip to Zimbabwe as chief...
In Zimbabwe Zuma’s visit inspires little hope

In Zimbabwe Zuma’s visit inspires little hope

South African President Jacob Zuma is in Harare for a two-day visit aimed at resolving the disputes that have hobbled the country's power-sharing government...
Zimbabwe: French oil group Total victim of Black empowerment regulation?

Zimbabwe: French oil group Total victim of Black empowerment regulation?

Total (Zimbabwe), a French registered oil company is being investigated for allegedly refusing to sell some of its expansive asserts to black businesspeople in...
Zimbabwe death row inmates unsure of fate

Zimbabwe death row inmates unsure of fate

Fourty nine death row inmates in Zimbabwe’s jails live in perpetual fear as they have no clue when the executioner will show-up. All 49 of...
Zimbabwe: Scorpion in My Shoe

Zimbabwe: Scorpion in My Shoe

Thanks to Robert Mugabe’s reign of record-breaking incremental destruction, my country is struggling to redeem itself from the abyss of infrastructure collapse, so much...
Zimbabwe: Grace Mugabe demolishes village for her project

Zimbabwe: Grace Mugabe demolishes village for her project

President Mugabe’s young wife, Grace is at it again. First she grabbed Iron Mask Farm in Mazowe about 40km from Harare area in 2002...
Zimbabwe teams to drop out of African Cups

Zimbabwe teams to drop out of African Cups

With little to no money, Zimbabwe’s Champions League and Confederation Cup representatives Gunners, Lengthens, CAPS United and Dynamos have hinted of pulling out from...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe seeks re-election and British conservative win

Zimbabwe: Mugabe seeks re-election and British conservative win

Zimbabweans should be ready to go for fresh polls next year with or without a new constitution, President Mugabe has advised his countrymen. But the...
U.S. prolongs sanctions on Mugabe regime

U.S. prolongs sanctions on Mugabe regime

The United States extended sanctions on Robert Mugabe’s regime for another year, saying that Zimbabwe’s political crisis is unresolved, President Obama announced. The United States...
Zimbabwe: MDC youth to demonstrate after Zanu-PF youth protest

Zimbabwe: MDC youth to demonstrate after Zanu-PF youth protest

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC party youth wing is planning nationwide demonstrations aimed at forcing the arrest of people "linked to the nauseating corruption...
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In Zimbabwe, courthouse filming lands journalist in jail

A Zimbabwean freelance journalist was arrested today for the third time this year, this time for taking footage of prisoners outside a courthouse in...
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai calls indiginization law null and void

Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai calls indiginization law null and void

A new retrogressive economic empowerment law in Zimbabwe that seeks to grab 51 percent ownership of all international firms operating in the country was set...
Zimbabwe bullies Zambia for a ten year old debt

Zimbabwe bullies Zambia for a ten year old debt

Desperate situation calls for desperate measures, so goes the saying. But for one southern African nation with depleted coffers, those measures have been stretched...
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai warned by Zanu-PF youths

Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai warned by Zanu-PF youths

A month long ultimatum has been issued to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai by Zanu PF youths today for him to call for the removal of...
Mixed reactions to Africa Cup of Nations draw

Mixed reactions to Africa Cup of Nations draw

Africa's prestigious football tournament's 2012 draw conducted last Saturday in DR Congo southern city of Lubumbashi has drawn interesting reactions. The 2012 Africa Cup of...
Zimbabwe: Military group attacks Police in arrest case

Zimbabwe: Military group attacks Police in arrest case

13 armed soldiers led by a senior lieutenant on Monday night stormed a police station to set free two of their arrested colleagues. The two...
China warns Zimbabwe: We are not ‘friends!’

China warns Zimbabwe: We are not ‘friends!’

China looks set to abandon Zimbabwe. The communist nation has told the southern Africa country “not to expect further loans from Beijing until it pays its...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe praised ahead of 86th birthday

Zimbabwe: Mugabe praised ahead of 86th birthday

In a rare move the Movement for Democratic Change has lavished praise on one of the oldest and longest serving African rulers, President Robert...
Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF forcing civil servants to strike?

Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF forcing civil servants to strike?

More than 1000 disgruntled Zimbabwe’s state workers took to the streets today in Harare declaring that they are scaling their strike. State workers are demanding...
Zimbabwe: US backed negotiations to hit the wall as Mugabe lashes out

Zimbabwe: US backed negotiations to hit the wall as Mugabe lashes out

President Barack Obama of the United States of America has dispatched a five-member delegation of US congressmen led by Representative Gregory Meeks to Zimbabwe. The aim is...
Zimbabwe: Foreign and Nigerian businesses to face indigenization law

Zimbabwe: Foreign and Nigerian businesses to face indigenization law

A radical black empowerment lobby group, the Affirmative Action Group (AAG) has resolved to flush out all foreigners especially Nigerian businessmen in Zimbabwe by all...
Zimbabwe and South African Toyota cars recalled

Zimbabwe and South African Toyota cars recalled

Toyota Zimbabwe is recalling close to 100 cars for check ups as the automotive giant recalls thousands of cars worldwide. In South Africa a recall of...
Conflict of Constitutionalism in Zimbabwe

Conflict of Constitutionalism in Zimbabwe

A constitutional crisis bearing the hall marks of the same protagonists ten years ago is in full swing in Zimbabwe. At the time it...
Zimbabwe: Police embarrass minister ahead of summit

Zimbabwe: Police embarrass minister ahead of summit

Overzealous security agents in Zimbabwe at the weekend nabbed a Mexican journalist in the southern town of Masvingo days before Zimbabwe hosts its first...
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Radio Communications System to Help Zimbabwean Rural Health Centres Combat Cholera

IOM has handed over radio communications equipment to Zimbabwe's Ministry of Health and Child Welfare in an effort to improve disease outbreak reporting and...
Iran-Zimbabwe forge closer military ties amid outcry

Iran-Zimbabwe forge closer military ties amid outcry

A state of the art helicopter training repair center is being set up in Zimbabwe by Iran a move that will further cement military...
Zimbabwe economy dip feared as nationwide strike begins

Zimbabwe economy dip feared as nationwide strike begins

An indefinite strike by Zimbabwe’s entire civil servants has paralyzed operations in schools, hospital and the courts and government departments. Civil servants endorsed the...