Zimbabwe’s new power-sharing government has secured -million in credit lines from neighbours to revive the country’s moribund economy.
Madagascar’s ousted president Marc Ravalomanana told regional leaders he signed his resignation last month at gunpoint.
Madagascar’s neighbors have suspended it from their regional club, and say they will take further steps if democracy is not restored.
Madagascar police fired shots on Wednesday after supporters of the island’s toppled leader clashed with those backing his foe.
President Kgalema Motlanthe has invited the Southern African Development Community to send a team to observe the country’s upcoming elections.
Southern African leaders are expected to finalise an economic aid package for Zimbabwe and discuss possible sanctions against Madagascar next week.
South Africa is considering granting credit lines for neighbouring Zimbabwe, President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Monday.
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/ 27 February 2009
Southern African finance ministers agreed on Friday to push for donor help to rebuild Zimbabwe after economic collapse.
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/ 27 January 2009
SADC leaders declared on Tuesday that Zimbabwe’s rival parties had agreed to form a unity government, but the opposition said that was not the case.
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/ 27 January 2009
Southern African leaders on Tuesday gave Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai until mid-February to form a unity government.
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/ 21 January 2009
Southern African leaders have failed miserably in saving Zimbabweans from a government that has lost all legitimacy, Graça Machel says.
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/ 13 January 2009
A top Zimbabwe judge has said a regional court had no jurisdiction to rule that 78 white farmers could keep land lost to Harare’s land-reform scheme.
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/ 22 December 2008
A Southern African bloc on Sunday announced humanitarian aid for Zimbabwe as the country battles food shortages and a deadly cholera outbreak.
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/ 5 December 2008
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said on Dutch TV that Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe must step down or be removed by force.
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/ 11 November 2008
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe looked set on Tuesday to push ahead with a new government, sidelining opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
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/ 11 November 2008
Lesotho’s former dictator, Major General Metsing Lekhanya, on Tuesday called the parliament "illegitimate".
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/ 11 November 2008
Southern African leaders are highly unlikely to ever force Zimbabwe’s rival parties to implement a power-sharing deal.
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/ 10 November 2008
President Robert Mugabe said on Monday a new Zimbabwe government would be formed ”as quickly as possible”.
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/ 10 November 2008
Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda said on Monday he would fight African peacekeepers if they backed government troops against him.
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/ 10 November 2008
Southern African nations are prepared to provide assistance to the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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/ 10 November 2008
Southern African leaders said on Sunday that Zimbabwe’s political rivals must split the leadership of a key ministry, a move rejected by the MDC.
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/ 9 November 2008
Opening a summit on the political crisis in Zimbabwe, SA President Kgalema Motlanthe expressed disappointment at the impasse.
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/ 9 November 2008
Zimbabwe’s ruling party and opposition leaders looked set to dig their heels in on power-sharing demands ahead of a crunch summit.
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/ 7 November 2008
Southern African leaders will pile pressure on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai at a summit on Sunday.
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/ 1 November 2008
SADC on Saturday declared that Zambia’s presidential election was free and fair, despite claims of vote-rigging by the opposition.
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/ 28 October 2008
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai faced mounting pressure on Tuesday to end their feud over forming a unity government.
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/ 28 October 2008
African leaders on Monday failed to break the deadlock in Zimbabwe talks, with a fight over the Home Affairs Ministry threatening to sink the deal.
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/ 27 October 2008
Leaders of a Southern African bloc met on Monday in Zimbabwe to press Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai to break an impasse over a unity government.
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/ 27 October 2008
Thabo Mbeki said on Monday he was confident a summit would salvage an agreement between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and the MDC opposition.
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/ 24 October 2008
South Africa’s new President Kgalema Motlanthe urged Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday not to boycott another summit.
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/ 22 October 2008
Leaders from three major African trading blocs met in the Ugandan capital on Wednesday met to push for a single market.
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/ 27 September 2008
Kgalema Motlanthe will find himself with a heavily laden in tray bequeathed to him by former president Thabo Mbeki.