Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will ask a regional security summit on Thursday to stop what he says is a crackdown by Robert Mugabe.
African leaders on Thursday will try to defuse escalating tensions in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe is accused of cracking down on rivals.
The crisis in Zimbabwe goes beyond the disputed elections and is more about the division of opinions, the Zimbabwe Institute said on Monday.
From an abandoned mine shaft near Mount Darwin, 150km north of Harare, nearly 1 000 bodies are being pulled to the surface.
SA and the international community need to acknowledge the power-sharing deal in Zimbabwe has failed, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.
With the threat of arrest hanging over him and his party restricted by Zanu-PF, Morgan Tsvangirai, faces his sternest leadership test.
Mugabe’s sabre-rattling about the possible seizure of major companies with "Western links" is an "idle threat," economist Eric Bloch said
Robert Mugabe’s wooing of the Chinese has angered his supporters.
Zimbabwe is not ready for elections, and will not be ready until it has dealt with present and past human rights violations, says Human Rights Watch.
A Zimbabwean magistrate’s court on Monday freed 38 activists charged with treason for discussing the mass protests in Egypt.
Citizens are forced to sign a document blaming sanctions for all economic woes.
Internet campaigns calling for protests against the rule of President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday did not lead to any mass gatherings in Zimbabwe.
Similar, but very different to Egypt, Zimbabwe’s citizens are simply too downtrodden to resist.
Can Zimbabwe learn from the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions? Yes, argues <b>Trevor Ncube</b>, only if the people take matters into their own hand.
Zimbabwe’s police have seized cars belonging to Morgan Tsvangirai’s official escort and arrested his drivers for possessing police beacon lights.
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/ 11 February 2011
Morgan Tsvangirai says his power-sharing pact with Robert Mugabe would continue as the country’s uneasy unity government passed its two-year mark.
Amnesty International said on Friday that Zimbabwe’s two-year-old coalition government has failed to end human rights abuses and political violence.
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/ 11 February 2011
An anti-sanctions petition is Zanu-PF’s latest attempt to pressure Western countries into lifting sanctions imposed on the party’s top brass.
With the bulk of the urban population living off informal trade, party militia are targeting the businesses of suspected opposition supporters.
The US on Thursday expressed alarm at new violence in Zimbabwe, accusing the Zanu-PF of carrying out the attacks ahead of possible elections this year
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/ 7 February 2011
Zimbabweans chanting slogans from President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF trashed stalls owned by foreigners at a flea market in Harare on Monday.
Zimbabwe’s faltering international image takes another knock as locals eye resort.
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/ 18 January 2011
When Jonathan Moyo was relieved of his cabinet post and booted out of Zanu-PF in 2005, the news was greeted with a cacophony of mirth.
Jonathan Moyo, the controversial spin doctor expelled from Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF, is on the political comeback trail.
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/ 23 December 2010
Somewhere between government agendas, African safari outfits and Victoria Falls resorts lie the myths and realities of Zimbabwean tourism.
The US imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe’s Attorney General for his alleged role in undermining the crisis-ridden African nation’s democracy.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai urged their supporters to shun violence ahead of elections planned for 2011.
A Zimbabwean human rights organisation urged the country’s ruling parties to allow freedom and fairness in elections tentatively planned for 2011.
Zanu-PF members are jostling to endorse the president as the electoral candidate ahead of the party’s national conference.
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/ 19 December 2010
The UN offered Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe a retirement package and safe haven if he agreed to stand down, according to a Wikileaks cable.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s party was on Saturday set to back his push for elections in the country early next year.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe told his party on Friday that the country’s uneasy power-sharing government "can’t be allowed to continue".