The government of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has warned that it will crush anti-government street demonstrations being organised by the opposition.
Heaven help the MDC
Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Sunday told his supporters to prepare themselves with prayers ahead of ”democracy marches” due to begin in just over a week.
Long queues of people waited outside banks on Saturday in central Harare amid fears of more strikes and reports banks were limiting cash withdrawals.
A lawyer representing US journalist Andrew Meldrum, who was expelled from Zimbabwe last week, on Friday said she was pursuing efforts to allow him to return to the country, where he had lived and worked for 23 years.
Zimbabwe immigration officials on Friday ordered US journalist Andrew Meldrum to leave the southern African country, where he has been based for 23 years.
Lawyers in Zimbabwe on Thursday challenged regulations that allow
President Robert Mugabe’s government to tap into telephone conversations and e-mail communications.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has appointed a team of experts to undertake a comprehensive review of the country’s controversial land reform scheme.
The base of an ancient, symbolic stone sculpture taken from Zimbabwe a century ago and sent to Europe was finally returned home on Wednesday.
An outbreak of malaria in Zimbabwe has killed at least 500 people during the first four months this year, compared with the 300 who died of the disease throughout 2002, a health official said on Tuesday.
At least nine women from Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change were arrested on Tuesday after a demonstration near the court where their leader is on trial for treason, the party said.
South African lawyer George Bizos, defending Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in a treason trial, has claimed police tried to cover up for a key state witness.
Zimbabwe’s national airline has just two or three days worth of fuel supply left, as a result of a critical liquid fuels shortage that has hit the country.
The trial of Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was set to resume in Harare Monday against a background of widening political and economic tensions in the southern African country.
Lawyers for opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday they were trying to secure his passport, confiscated by the state last year, to allow him to travel to Malawi next week.
The Supreme Court in Zimbabwe on Wednesday struck out a section of a controversial media law that makes it an offence for a journalist to publish falsehoods, declaring it unconstitutional.
A delegation of African leaders met on Monday with Zimbabwe’s president and its opposition leader in an urgent round of shuttle diplomacy aimed at ending the political crisis that has plunged the southern African nation into chaos and driven it to the brink of economic collapse.
Reporters from some foreign media organisations were refused entry into the closed-door talks between President Thabo Mbeki, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, Malawi President Bakili Muluzi and President Robert Mugabe.
Three African leaders arrived in Zimbabwe on Monday for talks with President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, aimed at resolving the country’s political and economic crises.
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and president-elect Olusegun Obasanjo arrived in Harare early on Monday for crucial talks with President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
Around 300 people gathered in the Zimbabwe capital Harare on Saturday to mark World Press Freedom Day, as a regional press watchdog claimed the country led the region in repressing the media.
The popular opposition mayor of Zimbabwe’s capital city, Elias Mudzuri, went into hiding from police Friday as authorities tried to enforce a controversial order to suspend him from office.
Zimbabwe’s main labour body marked International Workers’ Day on Thursday by warning thousands of supporters to brace themselves for confrontation, saying things would not improve without a change of regime.
The presidency has rejected reports that President Thabo Mbeki intends urging Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to step down when he visits Harare next week.
The Zimbabwean government has suspended the executive mayor of the capital Harare for alleged mismanagement and for supporting two recent national strikes.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe does not intend to leave office anytime before his current term ends in 2008, says the Zimbabwean government.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is finally cracking under relentless pressure by African leaders to meet opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and solve the economic and political crisis in the Southern African country, say experts.
Zimbabwean authorities have barred the burial of a young Zimbabwean soldier who died in action while fighting for the British army in the war in Iraq, members of the family confirmed on Sunday.
The Zimbabwe government has hiked the wages of most workers, a newspaper reported on Friday, as a national strike over fuel prices appeared to be holding for a third day.
The Zimbabwean government has turned piecemeal repression of opposition activists into a campaign of full-scale systematic violence in recent weeks, taking advantage of the world’s focus on the Iraq war.
Zimbabwe was largely brought to a halt yesterday by a three-day strike called by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions in protest at the government’s decision last week to triple the price of fuel.
The annual trading season of Zimbabwe’s lucrative tobacco crop opens on Wednesday with an anticipated drop in production of about a third from last year.