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 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.
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”.