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/ 25 November 2002
The diplomatic dispute between the United States and Zimbabwe has escalated after an employee of the US embassy in Harare was beaten by war veterans loyal to President Robert Mugabe.
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/ 11 November 2002
The United States government warned this week that it might take ”intrusive, interventionist measures” to deliver food aid directly to millions of famine-hit Zimbabweans if President Robert Mugabe continues to starve his political opponents.
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/ 8 November 2002
A top opposition official who was found dead in a Zimbabwe prison last month died of chloroquine poisoning in what authorities said was probably suicide,
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/ 18 September 2002
Zimbabwe’s consumer price index (CPI) rose by 135,1%in the year to August, after climbing 123,5% in July, figures from the Central Statistical Office showed on Wednesday.
President Robert Mugabe’s government has used its press-gag laws against another journalist, charging a local reporter with ”publishing falsehoods”.
Senior Zimbabwean officials, including the two vice-presidents and relatives of President Mugabe, have taken farms under the government’s land reforms, according to the country’s Commercial Farmers’ Union. The reforms were promoted as a scheme to benefit landless farmers.
South African and Nigerian envoys were holding separate talks on Monday with officials of Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), the Foreign Affairs Department said.
ZIMBABWE’S Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge said on Monday that President Robert Mugabe had no trouble travelling to the United States for a UN meeting, despite sanctions that normally should bar him from entering the country.
POLICE arrested and charged a columnist for Zimbabwe’s only independent daily newspaper on Monday, bringing to eight the number of journalists arrested under harsh new media laws critics say are aimed at stifling free speech in the country.
Food shortages are worsening in Zimbabwe and aid agencies are struggling to meet demands for emergency relief supplies, the UN’s food agency said in a statement on Thursday.
Police in Zimbabwe’s grain belt are delivering orders to white farmers to get off their land by Sunday, in a move that may finally remove nearly all of them from the area.
Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) alleged on Sunday that voters in a key southwestern by-election have been bribed with food and intimidated into voting for the ruling party.
The Zimbabwe government has slammed white farmers who defied orders to cease operations on Monday, saying they were ”unrepentant racists and fascists” bent on attracting attention at the G8 summit.
The United Kingdom should honour its commitments and compensate white Zimbabwe farmers who had lost land during the Zimbabwean land distribution programme, says Zimbabwean Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge.
The Zimbabwe government is considering freezing salaries next year to keep prices down, the state-controlled Herald newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Five young Zimbabwean opposition activists who were allegedly assaulted and tortured in police custody at the weekend, were granted bail and released on Monday.
Police in Harare arrested at least 13 people including labour leaders for organising work stoppages to protest soaring food prices and economic hardship.
As two days of polling in local council elections in rural areas of Zimbabwe drew to a close on Sunday, the main opposition party disputed the legitimacy of the vote, saying government opponents had been subjected to violence and intimidation.
Rights watchdog Amnesty International has accused Zimbabwe’s government of systematically shielding people responsible for torture, abductions and political killings from justice.
The British high commissioner to Harare, Brian Donnelly, has been placed under 24-hour surveillance for political activities incompatible with his diplomatic duties.
About 2 900 white-owned farms in Zimbabwe must stop operating on Monday under a new law to pave the way for the government’s land redistribution exercise.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has denounced US and other western criticism of his government as a racist campaign to undermine his nation’s independence.
Ten white farmers have been arrested in southern Zimbabwe for defying an order to leave their land and make way for new black settlers, says a farming crisis group.
Zimbabwe’s white farmers’ union has launched a plan to break a deadlock between it and the government over land reform a week after two of its leaders resigned.
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has dissolved his cabinet, his office said in a statement on Friday, in a long-awaited move that comes amid his government’s growing international isolation.
Batty Bob plays the race card
Zimbabwe’s central bank said on Wednesday it was suspending its key banking rate with immediate effect and adopting a dual interest rate system in a bid to help shore up the country’s struggling economy.
A leader of a mainly white Zimbabwean farmer’s group told growers on Wednesday to abandon politics, saying it hurt efforts to deal with the government over its seizure of white-owned farms.
A call by Zimbabwe’s leading civic rights body for a national stayaway in protest against President Robert Mugabe’s rule appeared to go unheeded on Tuesday, reports in Harare suggested.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Monday swore in a reshuffled cabinet, state media reported, calling it a ”war council” to fight the country’s political and economic problems.
Zimbabwe’s government is expected to tighten foreign exchange controls in the next two weeks as the country battles with a growing shortage of hard currency, private banking officials said on Tuesday
AS THE 43rd Zimbabwe International Trade Fair opened this week, the Zimbabwe government confirmed that its programme of company seizures was already under way