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Pressure mounts on Mugabe to quit

Prominent church leaders are expected to meet President Robert Mugabe next week to discuss Zimbabwe’s deteriorating political and economic situation as pressure mounts at home…

Presidential succession plan in Zim collapses

Zimbabwe ruling party Zanu-PF’s plan to amend the Constitution to delay the 2008 presidential election until 2010 to facilitate Vice-President Joice Mujuru’s succession to…

Zanu aims for two-thirds

The ruling Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe has set its sights on achieving a two-thirds majority in the parliamentary elections scheduled to take place on March 31. The party’s secretary for…

Splat goes the master of spin

Zimbabwe’s Information and Publicity Minister Jonathan Moyo performed a dramatic volte-face four years ago, turning full circle from being President Robert Mugabe’s trenchant…

Zim’s MDC queries ‘fictitious’ voters’ roll

Zimbabwe opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has expressed fears that Zanu-PF could have started rigging next year’s election using the latest "fictitious" voters’…

Zanu-PF women’s league enters succession race

The influential Zanu-PF Women’s League has entered the Zimbabwean ruling party’s succession race and is now lobbying for a prominent woman politburo member to be nominated as…

Mugabe gears up for poll

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is wavering between piecemeal reforms and panicky repression as he struggles for survival ahead of next year’s crucial general election. Mugabe…

Zim poll violence ‘worrying’

Zimbabwe’s blood-soaked parliamentary by-election last weekend, won by President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF amid accusations of violence and bribery, could be a harbinger of things…

Zim sold arms to ‘mercenaries’

The state-owned Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI) has come under the spotlight for a controversial sale of weapons of war to the 70 suspected mercenaries currently being held in…

Moguls flee as Zim banks close

Zimbabwe’s anti-corruption crackdown last week resulted in the closure of five key financial institutions. President Robert Mugabe is vigorously dismantling the country’s…

Catch-22 for the MDC

Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is locked in a conundrum over whether or not to contest next year’s general election under the current electoral…

Mugabe running out of options

Despite casting aspersions on the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) this week, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe conceded the need to engage his arch-rivals in a…

Congo peace plan has serious flaws

President Thabo Mbeki’s plan to bring lasting peace to the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo within 90 days faces serious problems of implementation and operational capacity…