Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party will not accept a power-sharing deal that fails to recognise his re-election.
South African President Thabo Mbeki, who has been pilloried over his Zimbabwe mediation efforts, has a chance to make his critics eat their words.
Millions are threatened with starvation after the failure of the harvest brought on by the government’s mishandling of land redistribution.
Zimbabwe’s current plight ”shames most Africans”, former United Nations chief Kofi Annan said in an interview published on Friday.
They call them the ”walking clubs”, and Grace Sibanda is an involuntary member. The shop assistant rises before dawn and slips out of her tiny home.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is beginning to breathe more easily as a Western diplomatic campaign against his re-election falters.
Nelson Mandela celebrates his 90th birthday on Friday as a widely revered statesman, but SA faces a host of problems that challenge his dream.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday accused Britain of trying to seize control of resources in the devastated African nation.
United States President George Bush said on Tuesday the United States was looking at imposing more sanctions against Zimbabwe’s government.
Zimbabwe’s Christian community has rejected President Robert Mugabe’s re-election and said the vote was marred by violence and intimidation.
Ward B3 of the Gokwe hospital looks much like any other in Zimbabwe’s decaying medical establishments, denuded of medicines, equipment and doctors.
Neither Mugabe nor Tsvangirai can rule successfully without coming to an agreement. The first talks aimed at reaching a settlement began this week.
Zimbabwe’s ruling party and the opposition MDC held their first talks on Thursday since the widely condemned re-election of President Robert Mugabe.
Zimbabwe’s ruling party and the opposition MDC will on Thursday begin preliminary talks on ending the political crisis, an opposition source says.
The military, not President Robert Mugabe, is in charge of Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe Solidarity Forum said on Thursday.
Leaders of the African National Congress on Wednesday met President Robert Mugabe and expressed support for a dialogue to end the political crisis.
A call by the G8 to send a UN envoy to Zimbabwe and to press for new sanctions is a stinging humiliation for mediator Thabo Mbeki, analysts say.
Zimbabwe’s government said on Tuesday that the G8 leaders’ rejection of President Robert Mugabe’s legitimacy was racist and an insult.
The G8 agreed on Tuesday to impose sanctions against Zimbabwe’s leadership because of violence during the condemned re-election of Robert Mugabe.
President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party and Zimbabwe’s opposition are to resume talks to resolve the country’s political crisis.
SA President Thabo Mbeki has been given a grilling by G8 leaders at a private meeting over his mediation efforts in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe’s opposition on Monday accused militias loyal to Robert Mugabe of stepping up deadly attacks against its followers.
British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs David Miliband on Monday called for ”tough” sanctions against Zimbabwe.
Robert Mugabe’s regime has warned the West to ”stop meddling” in Zimbabwe as the veteran leader faces pressure to cut a deal with the opposition.
SA President Thabo Mbeki has presented a plan to Zimbabwe’s political leaders that would allow Robert Mugabe to remain as a titular head of state.
Following his meeting with refugees in South Africa, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said it was ”imperative” to find a solution to Zimbabwe.
The British Home Office is continuing to order failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers to return home in the face of mounting violence.
South African President Thabo Mbeki met Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Saturday to try to help end a political crisis.
The clandestine operation to record the truth about Zimbabwe’s prison service began 10 months ago.
It was the murder of his uncle that convinced a prison officer to bring to bring to the world a visual account of life in Zimbabwe under Mugabe.
A transitional government in Zimbabwe should be given two years to let the dust settle before another round of elections can be held, says Angola.
Robert Mugabe said on Friday he is only open to negotiations on an end to Zimbabwe’s political crisis if he is accepted as the country’s president.