Only about half of the farm land confiscated by the government in one of the country’s formerly most productive agricultural areas has been occupied by new settlers, close to a month after the expiry of the first deadline for them to move on.
ZIMBABWE’S finance minister, Simba Makoni, said on Wednesday that government would normalise the situation in its farming areas, wracked by violent farm invasions for more than two years.
British High Commissioner to Zimbabwe Brian Donnelly was warned on Wednesday not to ”interfere” in the internal affairs of the southern African country, according to the state-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.
ANDREW Meldrum, a correspondent for London’s Guardian newspaper, was arrested on Wednesday morning under President Robert Mugabe’s new press-gag law.
The Zimbabwe-born son of Hungarian refugees on Wednesday won the right to challenge President Robert Mugabe’s draconian new citizenship laws which threaten to leave two million Zimbabweans stateless.
A thief who disguised himself as a ghost using ash and grease and robbed foreigners at a prime tourist site in southern Zimbabwe has been arrested, the Herald newspaper reported Saturday.
An American food relief expert urged the Zimbabwean government to drop restrictions on the import of corn that could not be certified free of genetically modified material.
Zimbabwe customs officials have refused to allow 30 tons of emergency food into the country obtained by the main opposition party, citing import regulations.
The Zimbabwe government has ruled out devaluation of the country’s volatile currency despite a foreign exchange crisis that has rocked the country for years.
Zimbabwe police said on Sunday they had arrested at least 133 white farmers for defying orders to vacate their farms under President Robert Mugabe’s controversial land reform program.
Zimbabwe has suspended import restrictions on drugs to treat the deadly Aids pandemic, which claims more than 2 000 lives a week in the southern African nation.
UN food agencies estimate 3-million of the 13-million population in Zimbabwe will face starvation by June.
As the United Nations preparatory commission met this week in New York to set the International Criminal Court in motion, the human rights crisis in Zimbabwe continued to worsen ? sparking fresh enthusiasm for the prosecution of President Robert Mugabe and his inner circle.
While queues lengthened for maize meal, sugar, and cooking oil, Zimbabwe’s Central Statistic Office on Wednesday reported inflation had reached at all time high of 123,5%.
Fifteen white Zimbabwe farmers have been charged with defying a government ban on farming, the first move against this community since the ban came into force last week.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government has published regulations that freeze the prices of a huge range of retail goods, reports the state press.
Genetically modified food is safe for human consumption and should be used to fight famine threatening millions in southern Africa.
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai warned on Monday of a gathering ”people’s storm” that would battle what he called President Robert Mugabe’s ”civil-military junta”.
At least 36 students from a teacher training college burnt to death near the southern Zimbabwean city of Masvingo after their bus collided with a truck.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe plans to make service in his youth militia a prerequisite for high school graduates entering college or the job market.
A white farmer in Zimbabwe allegedly sprayed tear gas at a ruling party lawmaker who took over part of his farm under.
Three more independent journalists were arrested in Zimbabwe and charged on Thursday over reports in the latest issue of The Sunday Standard that criticised the police.
A ZIMBABWEAN court denied a request on Tuesday by two journalists to drop charges filed against them under harsh new media laws.
Nearly three years of rural instability has badly damaged Zimbabwe’s crucial tobacco harvest, with the country likely to sell only a fraction of the tobacco it did in 2000, producers said on Tuesday.
A Zimbabwean white farmer on Wednesday became the first reported to be forcibly ejected from his property since a government eviction order last week.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government appears to have been caught out over a five-week blockade imposed by ruling party militias on food aid from a British charity for a famine-stricken district, hours after the United Nations warned the regime of ”the politicisation of food distribution”.
Zimbabwe’s High Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of its justice minister after he failed to appear in court to answer charges of contempt of court, a state-owned daily said on Tuesday.
Learnmore Jongwe, the former representative and MP for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change who was arrested three months ago for allegedly murdering his wife, was found dead on Tuesday in the prison where he was awaiting trial
Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) lost a court appeal on Thursday demanding a computerised list of all Zimbabweans who had been registered to vote in March’s disputed presidential elections.
The trial of an American journalist working for a British paper and accused of publishing falsehoods opened on Wednesday in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwean journalist and publisher Mark Chavunduka, whose arrest and subsequent torture helped expose his government’s increasing repression of dissent, has died after a prolonged illness, his family said on Wednesday.
THE ruling party in Zimbabwe will sue media organisations, including those outside the country, and the main opposition party for reporting a false story, the state-run Sunday Mail reported.