Angola, Zanu-PF and MDC call for rival parties to cooperate in governing Zimbabwe after election
The UK and the US urged Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Monday to allow international monitors to ensure a free election run-off.
It’s official. Americans won’t be inaugurating a woman president next January. From a feminist perspective it’s hard not to feel a bit defeated.
The whereabouts of Tendai Biti, secretary general of Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), are still unknown a day after his arrest.
Approval of Zuma as party president is hovering around 36% in urban areas, according to surveys conducted in February and April by research firm TNS.
With his popularity waning, ANC president Jacob Zuma faces a series of hurdles.
Zimbabwe journalists facing beatings or arrest if they are critical of the government, an African fact-finding mission said on Friday.
Zimbabwe’s vote is unlikely to end the country’s accelerating crisis, with neither side willing to enter a unity government to end the bloodshed.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe warned on Friday that his staunchest supporters are ready to take up arms rather than let the opposition triumph.
A vote for opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in Zimbabwe’s June 27 run-off election will be akin to an act of war, Vice-President Joseph Msika was quoted as saying on Thursday.
Zimbabwe’s opposition is under intense political and violent pressure to agree to call off a second round of presidential elections in a fortnight and join a coalition government.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was roiled by another campaign scandal on Wednesday when a key adviser resigned.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party said on Wednesday it would deploy more war veterans to campaign in some opposition areas ahead of a presidential election run-off.
The current climate in Zimbabwe was ”not at all” the proper one for an election, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said in an interview broadcast on Tuesday.
Democrat Barack Obama on Wednesday plunged into a five-month election battle with Republican John McCain.
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos confirmed on Wednesday that the country’s first parliamentary elections since the end of a 27-year civil war will be held on September 5.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and several of his top lieutenants were detained by police on Wednesday in the approach to a key run-off presidential election on June 27, his party said.
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/ 1 September 1989
Just five days before the general election, police have swooped on anti-election protestors and defiance campaigners across the country.