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.
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.
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”.
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.
Zimbabwe’s central bank governor is having ”sleepless nights” over how to tame inflation currently running at more than 120%, The Herald newspaper reported on Friday. Governor Gideon Gono is struggling to contain inflation, which President Robert Mugabe’s government considers the ”number-one enemy”.