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Zimbabwe: Talks on pause
Zimbabwe’s three governing parties have suspended until Saturday their negotiations on outstanding issues impeding the work of the unity government after three days of...
Zimbabwe: Diamond network blacklists Marange
The Rapaport Diamond Trading Network, an overseas-based global network of companies that supports the development of free, fair and competitive global diamond markets, announced...
Zimbabwe: Child mortality rate on the rise
Zimbabwe’s infant mortality rate has risen by 20 percent over the past two decades as children under five succumb to the HIV pandemic and...
Nigeria’s agricultural success story and ex-Zimbabwean farmers
One of the less-popular towns of Nigeria, Shonga, is gradually fast becoming a food hub in both Nigeria and Africa, thanks to white Zimbabwean...
South Africa-Zimbabwe: Migrant workers struggling in SA
Zimbabwean migrants in search of employment in South Africa are facing persecution at the hands of local populations who are accusing them for taking...
Zimbabwe-USA: Obama honors two human rights activists from Zimbabwe
According VOA, two human rights activists from Zimbabwe were honored at the White House last Monday. President Obama led the tribute by presenting awards...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe “is a gift from God”
Veterans of Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle have come out boldly to declare that President Mugabe is a “gift from God” and would rally behind him...
Negotiators of Zimbabwe main parties to meet on Sunday
Negotiators of Zimbabwe's major political parties are expected to meet in Harare on Sunday for formal discussions aimed at ironing out sticking points around...
Zimbabwe: Security forces leave diamond fields
Zimbabwean security forces have started withdrawing from the country’s eastern diamond fields to meet recommendations by the Kimberley Process and criticism over human rights...
Zimbabwe-South Africa: 2,700 Zimbabweans displaced in SA attacks
According to Reuters, up to 2,700 Zimbabwean asylum seekers have set up a temporary “safety camp” at a rural South African town following xenophobic...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe blames Western subsidies
President Mugabe has declared that rich countries' agricultural subsidies and denial of market access to produce from developing countries were partly to blame for...
Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF set to install Mugabe as supreme leader
Plans to transform Zanu PF into an organization with a supreme leader have gone a gear up with reports that a proposal to set...
China buys Zimbabwe prison
Zimbabwe"s controversial relationship with China has taken an amusing
turn after the communist country bought Harare Central prison complex
which houses more than 2000 families and...
Zimbabwe: Bennet’s trial starts today
Roy Bennet trial, which prompted Prime Minister Tsvangirai’s MDC to boycott the unity government, has begun in Harare, reports AFP. Roy Bennett was to...
Zimbabwe: MDC calls off boycott, gives ultimatum
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has called off his party’s three week boycott but issued another 30 day ultimatum for President Mugabe to
address “pertinent issues...
Zimbabwe: Food crisis looms as Agricultural budget dips and land invasions continue
Another crippling hunger is looming in the southern Africa country with reports that a majority of the country’s large-scale producing White commercial farmers are...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe and Tsvangirai prepare for confrontation in Maputo
Zimbabwe's long time ruler President Mugabe and his political rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will attend Thursday’s regional summit in Maputo, Mozambique, in a...
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai may press for a full 15-member SADC summit
Another summit to tackle Zimbabwe’s unending political crisis is set for Mozambique on Thursday but little is expected from it. Swaziland's King Mswati, Mozambican...
Zimbabwe: Kabila and Mugabe hold talks
President Mugabe held critical talks with DRC counterpart Joseph Kabila on the country’s latest political impasse. According to AllAfrica, Kabila, who is described as...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe says PM is “dishonest”
President Mugabe, has criticised the party of Morgan Tsvangirai for its decision to boycott the country’s unity cabinet, writes VOA. He called on the...
Zimbabwe: Several tortured soldiers die after UN expert is refused entry
12 members of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) are reported dead
after allegedly tortured on accusation of stealing 20 AK 47 rifles at
Pomona Barracks.
A huge...
Zimbabwe: Kimberly Process to decide on diamond sales ban
Zimbabwe is facing calls to be suspended from the international diamond trade, following allegations of brutality by its soldiers, states BBC. Rights groups are...
UK-Zimbabwe: Britain offers £6,000 to failed asylum seekers
The Home Office announced that cash and aid repatriation packages worth up to £6,000 are to be offered to failed asylum seekers to go...
Zimbabwe: Chinamasa condemns UN Special Rapporteur
Prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai has expressed grave displeasure at the illegal detention and subsequent deportation from Harare of Manfred Nowak, a United Nations Special...
Zimbabwe: Special SADC team meets as MDC arrests rise
A special Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission on
Zimbabwe’s volatile political situation have began work to review progress of inclusive government forged between long...
Zimbabwe: SADC to meet Mugabe and Tsvangirai
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is scheduled to hold discussions with Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe and Prime Minister Tsvangirai Thursday. SADC is on a...
Harare paper says UN investigator “tried to gatecrash into” Zimbabwe
United Nations human rights expert Manfred Nowak was deported from Zimbabwe a day after being detained by security officials on arrival in Harare, reports...
Zimbabwe: No place for the United Nations
Following the break in civility and a looming crisis on the Zimbabwean political scene, the United Nations sent a torture expert to the country,...
Zimbabwe withdraws invitation to UN Rapporteur on Torture at the last minute
As previously announced, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manfred Nowak, was invited by the Government...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe to replace MDC gov’t officials with ZANU-pf members
Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe would soon appoint acting ministers to carry out duties that MDC Cabinet members are refusing to discharge, a cabinet minister...