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.
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.
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
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 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.
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 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.