No image available
/ 17 January 2007
Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Wednesday his movement will mobilise supporters to block President Robert Mugabe’s plan to extend his rule by two years to 2010. Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party last month approved a plan to move presidential polls from 2008 to 2010 so they can be held at the same time as parliamentary elections.
No image available
/ 29 November 2006
![]()
A haunting tune plays from a radio at a crowded flea market behind Zambia’s main business district, accompanied by a baritone voice urging Africa to rise up against Aids. ”That’s KK, it’s very nice, very moving,” a trader says of the song released by Zambia’s former president Kenneth Kaunda.
No image available
/ 29 November 2006
Zimbabwe’s embattled government will present its annual budget this week with a traditional prayer for salvation, but analysts say the plan is unlikely to ease a crisis savaging the economy. Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa will unveil the 2007 budget in Parliament on Thursday for an economy that has shrunk 40% in the last six years.
No image available
/ 27 November 2006
A Chinese company has offered -billion for a 60% stake in Zimbabwe’s struggling state-owned steel firm, according to a report in the government-run Herald newspaper on Monday. The move would be Beijing’s biggest investment yet in the crisis-hit Southern African country.
No image available
/ 10 November 2006
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday welcomed an initiative by churches to help end the country’s political and economic crisis, but charged President Robert Mugabe is in denial and an obstacle to change. Mugabe has rejected recent calls made by leaders of Zimbabwe’s major churches for a new Constitution.
No image available
/ 10 November 2006
An IMF delegation is visiting Zimbabwe to help improve relations with President Robert Mugabe’s government, but officials say the fund has not offered any aid to the country’s crumbling economy. The Southern African country is now in its eighth year of recession, marked by the world’s highest inflation and chronic shortages of fuel, food and foreign currency.
No image available
/ 27 September 2006
Zimbabwe’s opposition vowed on Wednesday to resist any plan by President Robert Mugabe’s party to delay a 2008 presidential poll, saying the Southern African country would be doomed by two more years under his rule. The ruling Zanu-PF said on Sunday it was considering shifting the presidential election so it can be held simultaneously with parliamentary polls in 2010.
No image available
/ 12 September 2006
President Robert Mugabe’s government said on Tuesday it was ready to talk with Zimbabwean unions over their social grievances, but renewed its vow to stop nationwide street protests planned for Wednesday. The opposition-allied Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has called for the demonstrations to protest poor wages and workers’ lack of access to antiretroviral drugs.
No image available
/ 11 September 2006
Zimbabwe trade unions are scaling down their threats for major anti-government protests this week, a move analysts say acknowledges that fears of a brutal state response may keep many people at home. President Robert Mugabe has warned his forces will not hesitate to shoot opponents who take to the streets.
Zimbabwe’s book fair, once Africa’s proudest annual literary celebration, now has only one tale to tell — the decline of a country brought to its knees by political and economic woes. The cultural life of the Southern African country — books, music, film and theatre — is being strangled by a severe economic crisis many critics blame on President Robert Mugabe’s government.