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.
As Zimbabwe forges ahead with a crackdown against its alleged critics, a journalist arrested this week just days after writing an article claiming the country’s police chief was unfit for duty, was charged with contravening the Police Act.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government has stepped up its ”political interference” with food deliveries while up to half of all Zimbabweans have run out of food, a Zimbabwean survey published on Saturday said.
A Zimbabwe magistrate’s court on Wednesday dropped charges against three journalists accused of publishing falsehoods under the country’s tough media law, according to their paper, The Standard.
A small group of independent journalists in Zimbabwe said they have filed a lawsuit challenging a harsh new media law in the Supreme Court.
Zimbabwe’s embattled white commercial farmers remain wary after the expiry of the latest eviction deadline to quit their properties under President Robert Mugabe’s controversial land reform programme.
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
A head teacher in Harare faces a possible five years in jail for telling parents that President Robert Mugabe’s re-election was ”morally invalid”, the Herald newspaper said Friday.
The response from the United Nations and the government in Angola, where ”hundreds of thousands” of people risk dying of hunger, is ”scandalously insufficient,” the relief agency Doctors without Borders (MSF) said.
President Robert Mugabe vowed to crack down on whites in Zimbabwe who oppose his policies and have defied eviction orders to abandon their farms.
A Zimbabwe journalist who wrote an article this month claiming the country’s police chief was unwell, has been sentenced to three months in jail under the Police Act.
The editor of an independent newspaper in Zimbabwe has been charged under tough security laws for publishing a story about the alleged torture of an opposition activist.
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has been given a 20% salary increase, his second pay rise this year, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Torture and other political violence in Zimbabwe fell by 50% during May compared to the month before, rights groups said on Friday, but abuses against the press and lawyers continue unabated.
President Robert Mugabe has threatened to nationalise one of the country’s largest companies, majority-owned by South Africa’s Anglo American Corporation.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has again come to President Robert Mugabe’s rescue, with a deal for another year’s supply of petrol, the Zimbabwean state press reported on Wednesday.
Zimbabwe banned British Prime Minister Tony Blair and scores of his top officials from traveling here and imposed visa requirements on British citizens in retaliation for European sanctions, state radio reported on Friday.
Zimbabwe’s government has diverted -million meant to rescuscitate businesses struggling in the harsh economy to help feed millions of people threatened by famine.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is attending the World Food Summit in Rome despite an EU travel ban, as his nation grapples with a famine affecting about half of the population.
The US government officially protested on Monday after one of its employees on an aid mission was beaten and robbed of official and personal items by ruling party militants, the US embassy said.
The bomb attack on an independent radio station in Zimbabwe was the fourth on a media organisation in the past three years, says the Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa).
Private radio station bombed in Zimbabwe
A white Zimbabwean farmer narrowly escaped the death penalty when he was jailed for 15 years in the Harare High Court on Tuesday for murdering a black settler on his farm last year.
Zimbabwe has granted a black-owned firm a licence to operate fixed telephone services, a year after the Supreme Court broke a state monopoly of the market, government announced on Wednesday.
A US federal magistrate in New York has recommended that Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party pay -million in compensation for several cases of political killings and torture.
The Zimbabwean government plans to order a probe into the conduct of a white judge who last week ordered the arrest of the country’s justice minister for contempt of court.
A top UN official in Zimbabwe has been summoned to government offices to explain why a UN employee travelled outside the capital without permission, a newspaper said on Friday.
Zimbabwe’s food crisis is ”very serious,” a senior UN official said on Friday, warning that millions of people will face famine in the coming months unless quick action is taken.
Zimbabwean police have detained 53 white farmers, while holding at least 18 others out of custody, as the government extends its crackdown on whites who refuse to vacate their farms.
The leader of a Zimbabwe teachers’ union which has called its members out on indefinite strike, Raymond Majongwe, has been ”seriously injured” while in police custody, his lawyer Tererayi Gunje said on Thursday.
An Irish Catholic priest is in hiding in Zimbabwe after being forced to flee for his life when members of President Robert Mugabe’s lawless militia of so-called war veterans drove him out of his parish in eastern Zimbabwe.
US journalist Andrew Meldrum, acquitted of publishing falsehoods but told to leave Zimbabwe, on Wednesday was granted time to challenge his expulsion order before the Supreme Court.