Thousands of people gathered at a stadium in Zimbabwe’s town of Mutare for celebrations to mark veteran President Robert Mugabe’s 88th birthday.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said he was ‘confident’ of victory after his party backed him to contest a likely election next year.
A judge in Zimbabwe has been arrested for granting bail to a top aide of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a lawyer said on Friday.
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/ 17 February 2009
A Zimbabwe politician earmarked to join the new unity government appeared in court on Tuesday to face charges over an alleged terror plot.
Widespread voter intimidation marked Zimbabwe’s one-candidate presidential run-off on Friday.
A former finance minister challenging Robert Mugabe for the presidency denied on Sunday he was a Western puppet and said such accusations were to divert attention from Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown. Simba Makoni is running as an independent candidate after being expelled from the ruling Zanu-PF party.
Shops in Zimbabwe’s normally thriving eastern border city of Mutare are fast running out of stock. Seven days after President Robert Mugabe’s government began a blitz on shops and businesses, forcing them to slash prices by half, Mutare’s biggest stores look in part like they’ve been decimated.
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/ 30 January 2007
A former ally of President Robert Mugabe says the Zimbabwean leader alone oversaw a 1980s military crackdown that killed more than 20 000 civilians from the Ndebele tribe. Edgar Tekere, a former secretary general of the Zanu-PF party, said Solomon Mujuru, then commander of the army, was also not aware of the crackdown.
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/ 1 November 2006
The trial of an ex-soldier accused of plotting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe finally began on Tuesday in Mutare city, with a Zimbabwe army major drawing the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party into the matter, claiming it was behind the plan to kill the president.
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/ 26 October 2006
A white former police reservist on Thursday pleaded not guilty to charges of hoarding arms as part of an alleged plot to topple veteran President Robert Mugabe as he went on trial in Zimbabwe. Lawyers for Peter Hitschmann told the court in Mutare, 270km east of Harare, that an initial confession had been forced out of the defendant while he was tortured.
Faced with starvation after six years of poor harvests, Zimbabweans are resorting to centuries-old traditions of ”forced marriages” for survival. The practice involves a father giving away his usually under-age daughter (without her consent) to a richer man in return for food and other economic support.
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/ 26 February 2006
President Robert Mugabe used his official 82nd birthday celebrations on Saturday to launch a new tirade against the West, boosted by a split in the opposition party. In an apparent play on the name of United States President George Bush, Mugabe warned Zimbabwe’s youth to beware ”the monster of imperialism … lurking in the bush”.
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/ 16 February 2006
A state-appointed commission running Zimbabwe’s fifth largest city of Mutare has ordered property owners in the city to repaint and renovate buildings because the city must look beautiful when it hosts President Robert Mugabe’s 82nd birthday celebrations next week.