For all the nightmarish events of the last decade, my country has much to celebrate as we mark 30 years of independence.
I was reminded that Zimbabweans, even those attending a political rally, should not be seen only through the prism of conflict and despair.
Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Tendai Biti on Saturday said Zimbabwe was working to reform its harsh media laws.
Zimbabwe’s rival leaders faced fresh pressure on Thursday to mend their differences and push toward new elections.
Zimbabwe’s bickering leaders were upbeat on Wednesday about talks brokered by South African President Jacob Zuma.
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/ 19 February 2010
Zimbabwe government workers marched through the capital, Harare, on Friday, saying they were scaling up a job boycott against low wages.
The European Union on Thursday announced a $13-million fund to help thousands of Zimbabwean smallholder farmers.
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/ 7 February 2010
"No disruption to learning" touts a newspaper ad for a new private Zimbabwean school, one of many springing up in living rooms across Zimbabwe.
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/ 6 February 2010
Zimbabwe’s civil servants have launched an open-ended strike for a more than four-fold hike to their salaries, piling pressure on the government.
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/ 6 February 2010
The film <i>Mugabe and the White African</i> puts a heroic gloss on the colonial attitudes that endure in independent Zimbabwe.
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/ 28 January 2010
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s party will not make concessions in talks with its partners in the unity government until sanctions are lifted.
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/ 25 January 2010
A Zimbabwean court has ruled that confessions by a witness implicating a key ally of Morgan Tsvangirai were invalid as they were not made freely.
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/ 12 January 2010
Zimbabwe’s Attorney General said the state is to have a key witness in the terrorism trial of Roy Bennett impeached for giving contradicting evidence.
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/ 12 January 2010
The trial of Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett, who is facing terrorism charges, resumed on Wednesday with the prosecution’s key witness due to testify.
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/ 10 January 2010
Zimbabwe’s remaining white farmers say continued farm invasions are keeping international investors
away from the poverty-stricken country.
Zimbabwe’s political rivals have agreed some outstanding issues of a power-sharing deal, but the pace of negotiations is slow.
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/ 23 December 2009
Swiss food giant Nestlé has shut down its Zimbabwe unit after a week of harassment from government officials.
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/ 22 December 2009
Zimbabwe’s rival leaders met on Monday and announced they had reached two agreements, offering rare reason for hope after a year of disappointment.
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/ 12 December 2009
Robert Mugabe on Friday bemoaned the divisions "eating up" his party as he opened its first congress since losing its absolute grip on power.
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/ 11 December 2009
Robert Mugabe has bemoaned factionalism within his Zanu-PF party, saying internal divisions cost the party its parliamentary majority.
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/ 17 November 2009
The number of tourists visiting Zimbabwe this year has more than tripled as entrepreneurs try to lure investors to the troubled country.
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/ 6 November 2009
Zimbabwe plans a swift transfer of ownership of foreign companies to locals, forcing foreigners to sell 51% of their shares to locals.
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/ 3 November 2009
Zimbabwe’s neighbours will hold a summit this week to try to break an impasse that threatens the Southern African nation’s unity government.
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/ 31 October 2009
Zimbabwe’s feuding leaders have come under fresh regional pressure to break a two-week impasse that threatens to sink the unity government.
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/ 18 October 2009
Workers trudge through foul-smelling mud in a trench seeping with clean drinking water and raw sewage in one of the Harare neighbourhoods.
After two decades of isolation, a battered country prepares for a major tournament.
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/ 11 September 2009
The lifting of sanctions imposed by the European Union (EU) on Zimbabwe would speed up that country’s recovery, Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.
President Jacob Zuma travels to Zimbabwe on Thursday in a bid to ease tensions within the strained unity government.
Minister of Public Service Eliphas Mukonoweshuro has announced increases for civil servants that will see some earn double their allowance.
Zimbabwe state media reported on Monday that President Robert Mugabe described the US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs as ”an idiot”.
Zimbabwe’s troubled coalition government is in no danger of collapsing, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Tuesday.
The <i>Guardian</i>’s David Smith travels to Zimbabwe and finds Harare, on first glance, full of ordinary lives in quiet desperation.