Zanu-PF leader starts preparations for a new administration, the state-run Herald newspaper reports
Jestina Mukoko, who is to appear on charges of plotting to overthrow President Robert Mugabe, is being poisoned in custody, a media report said.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has started preparations to form a government despite objections, firing a dozen ministers from his Zanu-PF party.
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/ 30 December 2008
Lawyers for detained rights activists called on Monday for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government to be charged with contempt.
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/ 29 December 2008
South Africa said on Monday that the arrest of a leading human rights campaigner should not delay the formation of a unity government.
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/ 25 December 2008
Zimbabwe’s high court ordered on Wednesday that a top rights activist, who was seized weeks ago, be released to hospital.
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/ 24 December 2008
A former Zimbabwean newscaster is expected to appear in court on Wednesday on charges of plotting to overthrow President Robert Mugabe’s government.
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/ 24 December 2008
At overflowing dumpsters in Zimbabwe’s capital, desperate vagrants pounced on garbage bags and fought over chicken bones and scraps of discarded food.
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/ 19 December 2008
Zimbabwe MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Friday that his party will quit talks for a unity government if abductions of party members do not stop.
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/ 19 December 2008
Zimbabwe’s central bank on Friday introduced a Z-billion banknote, worth on the black market, to try to ease desperate cash shortages.
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/ 17 December 2008
Zimbabwe’s neighbours will launch an urgent humanitarian campaign in the hope of saving the country from economic collapse and a cholera epidemic.
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/ 17 December 2008
Opponents of Robert Mugabe say he is preparing a new crackdown after the government blamed the opposition for a failed ”assassination attempt”.
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/ 15 December 2008
Zimbabwe has accused Botswana of training opposition insurgents to oust Zanu-PF leader Robert Mugabe, it was reported on Monday.
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/ 13 December 2008
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to hold talks next week with the UN on Zimbabwe, as Harare blamed Britain for a cholera outbreak.
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/ 10 December 2008
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday rebuffed pressure to agree to join a unity government with President Robert Mugabe.
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/ 9 December 2008
Zimbabwe has fallen into chaos — and there seems no chance of salvation.
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/ 5 December 2008
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe will call early elections if a power-sharing deal fails to work within the next two years, it was reported on Friday.
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/ 5 December 2008
‘No worse there is none," was the anguished cry of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins — and it is an apt description of the crisis in Zimbabwe.
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/ 1 December 2008
Morgan Tsvangirai urged the world on Monday to help end a humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe that has left hundreds of people dead in a cholera epidemic.
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/ 29 November 2008
The party says Zanu-PF lacks sincerity and it has pledged to reject a deal that makes it a junior partner in government.
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/ 28 November 2008
Thabo Mbeki slams Zimbabwe opposition’s refusal to accept regional leaders’ recommendations
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/ 26 November 2008
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Wednesday that former SA president Thabo Mbeki should step down as the mediator in Zimbabwe’s political crisis.
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/ 26 November 2008
The US government blacklisted four allies of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday, including Billy Rautenbach and John Bredenkamp.
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/ 25 November 2008
Zimbabwe’s humanitarian crisis has reached a ”critical level” with cholera killing hundreds across the country, the MDC said on Tuesday.
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/ 25 November 2008
Zimbabwe’s political rivals meet in SA on Tuesday for talks to end a political deadlock, amid mounting pressure from regional leaders.
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/ 23 November 2008
Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai met the Elders’ delegation in Johannesburg on Saturday.
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/ 20 November 2008
Zimbabwe on Thursday announced a new round of talks next week in SA, while accusing former UN chief Kofi Annan of trying to boost the MDC.
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/ 19 November 2008
With its main hospitals closed and a cholera epidemic raging, Zimbabwe’s health services are facing collapse, reports a leading medical body.
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/ 19 November 2008
Zimbabwe’s MDC said on Wednesday it had not seen a proposed constitutional amendment that would create a post of prime minister.
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/ 18 November 2008
Riot police prevented striking doctors and nurses on Tuesday from protesting against Zimbabwe’s collapsing healthcare system.
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/ 18 November 2008
Zimbabwe’s MDC leader on Monday cautioned against imposing more sanctions on his country, instead urging immediate humanitarian aid.
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/ 15 November 2008
The former United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, is to lead a high-profile team on a humanitarian mission to Zimbabwe.