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/ 6 November 2005
Fourteen Western embassies challenged the Zimbabwe government on Saturday to acknowledge it faced a humanitarian crisis following a campaign of evictions and the demolition of thousands of homes across the country. The Western nations said they shared the deep concern expressed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan about the plight of tens of thousands of people.
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/ 22 February 2005
As Information Minister, Jonathan Moyo made his reputation as the architect of the government’s campaign to silence criticism, and still had time to get his own jingles aired on state television. Moyo was fired over the weekend, but he has left a legacy of laws that effectively deny government critics a means of disseminating information.
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/ 3 February 2005
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change announced on Thursday it will take part in parliamentary elections scheduled for March 31, despite widespread fears of vote rigging and political violence. ”We participate under protest,” said MDC spokesperson Paul Themba Nyathi. ”We participate to keep the flames of hope for change alive.”
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/ 28 January 2005
Nearly half the population of Zimbabwe is facing hunger and needs food assistance as the country’s food emergency deepens, a famine early-warning group reported on Friday. The report sharply contradicts government assertions that the country has harvested more food — mainly of the corn staple — than it needs to feed the nation.
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/ 8 December 2004
Zimbabwe produced just a third of the food it needs this season, the main opposition said on Wednesday, predicting the hunger crisis will worsen in the impoverished Southern African country. The opposition warned that half the nation’s 12,5-million population faces deepening hunger in coming months.
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/ 14 September 2004
In this nation that once boasted one of sub-Saharan Africa’s most vibrant economies, things have become so bad that people have taken to telling a wry joke: ”What did we have before candles?” The answer: ”Electricity.” Four years of turmoil have turned back the clock here. Ambulances are drawn by oxen. Hand-guided cattle plows have replaced farm machinery.
Government-ordered fee cuts are bankrupting Zimbabwe private schools, once among the region’s best, officials at one non-profit institution said on Monday. The nearly century-old Eaglesvale School, which teaches 1Â 000 students in western Harare, filed for provisional liquidation on Monday.
Mugabe law curbs church and charities
The head of the defence team for 70 suspected mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea has withdrawn from the case, his associates said on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the leader of the 70 suspected mercenaries pleaded guilty on Wednesday to violating Zimbabwe’s security laws.
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Zimbabwe’s government said on Tuesday it had revised its extradition policy in order to extradite 70 suspected mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in the oil-rich west African nation of Equatorial Guinea. An official notice said Zimbabwe drafted an extradition treaty for the first time with Equatorial Guinea, effective immediately.
Sixty-four suspected mercenaries allegedly hired to overthrow the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, along with their three-man flight crew, were expected to make sworn statements on Friday. Meanwhile, a United States official has denied the US was involved in the alleged coup plot.