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Zimbabwe: An impossible cooperation
Tensions are rising in Zimbabwe as militants of the ruling party, Zanu-PF, begin another bout of intimidation, harassment and violence against members and supporters...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe and Tsvangirai enter dialogue
President Mugabe and Prime Minister Tsvangirai met in Harare on Monday for a three-hour talk on issues that threaten the break-down of the current...
Zimbabwe: Police raid MDC house
A senior party official has said Zimbabwean police have raided a house used by members of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai party, in search of...
Zimbabwe: MDC fear police planted arms in Tsvangirai home raid
Police in Zimbabwe have raided Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s residency claiming they are searching for stolen dangerous weapons from the police or the...
Africa: Leaders to improve Refugee conditions
African countries need to build strong institutions of the army, the police, intelligence and judiciary to forestall wars that cause displacement, affirmed President Yoweri...
Zimbabwe may adopt Czech Republic’s sex offenders’ castration law
Male rapists in Zimbabwe are to learn the hard way as parliamentarians
have proposed a new law to castrate them but are silent on what...
Zimbabwe: TV journalists arrested and held during cabinet meeting
Reporters Without Borders today condemned mistreatment by Zimbabwean intelligence agents of two journalists working for Arab satellite TV station al-Jazeera.
Cameraman Austin Gundani was physically...
SADC set for crisis summit on Zimbabwe
Southern African leaders are due to hold a crisis summit on the deteriorating political situation in Zimbabwe next week. The southern African country's eight-month-old...
Zimbabwe: EU urges Mugabe to implement power-sharing deal
The European Union President said on Wednesday that it urges President Mugabe to respect the agreement to share power with former opposition leader Morgan...
South Africa: Zuma rejects Tsvangirai’s appeal
President Jacob Zuma said in a written statement yesterday, Tuesday, that South Africa would not appeal to the South African Development Community (SADC) to...
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai flies to SA ignores Cabinet meeting
According to Mail&Guardian, President Mugabe held a cabinet meeting today, Tuesday, despite a boycott by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. Tsvangirai left Harare for South...
Zimbabwe: ‘Up to SADC to rescue the situation’
Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai left the country Monday on a
mini but crucial regional tour to brief African leaders on fresh political crisis in...
Zimbabwe: Bennet’s trial to be postponed
Zimbabwe prosecutors agreed on Saturday to postpone from today, Monday the terrorism trial of Roy Bennett, after his lawyers argued that they had been...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe too busy with soccer to bother with MDC boycott
Reacting through his spokesperson President Robert Mugabe has responded
to MDC disengagement saying he is too busy with students and soccer
to address the MDC move.
Mugabe...
Zimbabwe: Roy Bennett trial postponed
The trial of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) treasurer Roy Bennett’s would not take off today after the state conceded at the High Court...
Roy Bennett, a Zimbabwean accused
Zimbabwe's high court late on Friday ordered the release of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's aide Roy Bennett whose detention forced the premiers MDC party...
Zimbabwe: MDC supporters slam West over lopsided Roy Bennett support
Roy Bennet, whose jailing was harshly citicised by Europe and caused the MDC to issue a statement over its decision to boycott the Zimbabwean...
Zimbabwe: MDC boycotts power-sharing government
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is boycotting the country’s power-sharing government until a political deal is reached with the opposition, writes NewZimbabwe.
Prime Minister...
MDC Pullout: Press Statement by MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai
It is exactly 264 days since the extra-ordinary summit of SADC of 26
January 2009 that directed the formation of the transitional
government, which government started...
Zimbabwe: MDC pulls out of inclusive government with ZANU-PF
Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change has with immediate effect pulled out of the fragile inclusive government with President Mugabe’s
Zanu PF. This follows the detention...
Zimbabwe: Bennett back in jail
A Zimbabwean court has ordered a senior aide to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai back to jail until his trial on terrorism charges starts on...
Zimbabwe: MDC sends Zanu-PF strong warning over Roy Bennett imprisonment
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has today called for an emergency crisis meeting for his party to map a way forward after the imprisonment of...
Zimbabwe: Lawlessness rife as military shoots at police during football match
Zimbabwean soldiers upped their lawlessness after seven soldiers led by a lieutenant armed with assault rifles stormed a soccer pitch and shot a policeman...
Regime change in Zimbabwe legitimate
When citizens are schooled and empowered, it is difficult to oppress them. It becomes even harder for state actors to break the fortress...
Zimbabwe: Biti threatens to resign
The Minister of Finance, Tendai Biti, has threatened to resign if he was forced to return the local currency, writes AngolaPress.
The Zimbabwe dollar was...
Zimbabwe electoral system trashed as Mugabe’s tactics come to light
Zimbabwe's discredited electoral system has received a further heavy
knock of no confidence after it showed at the weekend that 134 202
people over the age...
Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize drives Tsvangirai supporters into frenzy
Ordinary Zimbabweans have been disappointed by the announcement that United States of America President Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe crony, Mutasa, faces arrest
One of Robert Mugabe’s loyal lieutenants and Minister of State for Presidential Affairs Didymus Mutasa was on Tuesday issued with a warrant of arrest...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe seeks friendly ties with the West
At the opening of the Zimbabwe parliament yesterday, President Robert Mugabe voiced his wish to enter into fresh, friendly and cooperative relations with all...
Mugabe the turncoat!
President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday said he is ready for friendly relations with Western countries who have previously been critical of his leadership. Speaking...