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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Theft, prostitution and child labour are some of the means hunger-stricken communities in Zimbabwe are using to cope with the effects of drought and food shortages.
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.
The Zimbabwe government has begun evicting thousands of families who have occupied mainly white-owned farms that were not earmarked for acquisition under the country’s land reform programme.
The Zimbabwe government has shrugged off the EU’s decision to extend sanctions against senior officials and ruling party members, including President Robert Mugabe’s wife.
The outcome of the first trial under Zimbabwe’s infamous new press-gag law is expected to be known on Monday when a Harare magistrate decides whether Andrew Meldrum, Harare correspondent for the London Guardian, is guilty of publishing ”falsehoods”.
Restaurant customers in Zimbabwe pay with thick wads of local currency bulging in their bags and pockets. Real estate buyers hand over deposits of millions of Zimbabwean dollars stuffed into suitcases and car trunks.
The Zimbabwe government on Tuesday refused to renew the work permit of the AFP bureau chief in Harare, who must now leave the country by the end of the week.
Zimbabwe’s parliament on Wednesday rushed through amendments to land laws, giving the government of President Robert Mugabe a freer hand to seize white-owned property and evict farmers, state television reported.
Zimbabwean police have arrested a total of 277 white farmers since the start of a crackdown on those defying a deadline to leave their land to make way for new black farmers.
A court in Zimbabwe has ordered the government not to destroy or tamper with ballot papers used in a disputed poll which returned President Robert Mugabe to power in March this year.
A potential water crisis in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare was averted on Monday after the Reserve Bank announced that it would provide 000 for the purchase of water purifying chemicals.