The Zimbabwe government has greeted with triumph news that a Commonwealth troika had decided to spare it from further sanctions, calling the decision a victory over colonialism.
Zimbabwe government’s will abolish the thriving foreign exchange bureaux, at a time when parallel market rates for foreign currency have reached record highs, Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa said on Thursday.
ZIMBABWE’s ruling party officials called off talks with the opposition over disputed presidential elections, saying there was nothing to discuss as long as the opposition was challenging the vote in court, the state Herald newspaper reported on Friday.
Some 17,2% of ballots cast in Zimbabwe’s March 9-11 presidential election were ”directly problematic,” the Human Rights Forum of local and international rights groups said on Wednesday.
A former intelligence officer at the Libyan embassy in Harare, Yousef Murgham, has been deported, the state controlled daily The Herald reported on Friday.
Lawyers for Zimbabwean retired judge Fergus Blackie who is facing charges of corruption and obstruction of justice, were on Saturday trying to secure his release through the Zimbabwean High Court.
The steady decline of Zimbabwe’s economy that began four years ago is to continue with real gross domestic product set to fall by up to 12% this year and seven percent in 2003, says the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.
A bomb exploded early on Thursday at the offices of Zimbabwe’s Voice of the People (VOP) shortwave radio, destroying one of only two independent radio stations that broadcast inside the southern African country.
Zimbabwe militants hound priest into hiding
Zimbabwe police have picked up a senior opposition member for questioning over last week’s bombing of the offices of a private radio station.
Zimbabwe’s economy lurched into new crisis on Friday as the country’s currency fell 60% in a week and its once world-leading tobacco industry appeared to be heading for oblivion.
Police in Zimbabwe have arrested a 65-year-old retired white judge who ordered the detention of a radical Zimbabwean cabinet minister earlier this year.
President Robert Mugabe has ruled out any possibility of talks with the country’s white farmers, and told them their rights to own property were second to blacks, state radio reports.
A Zimbabwean judge refused on Sunday to release a retired colleague who has been jailed since Friday and accused of bias against President Robert Mugabe’s government.
A white-owned Zimbabwean farm where gunfire had broken out early on Tuesday was calm after police arrived at midday, although about 70 pro-government militants remained on the farm.
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.
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.
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.
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.