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Zambia ruling party chooses Banda for president

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's ruling MMD party chose the country's vice president, Rupiah Banda, on Friday as its candidate to contest a presidential election due in November, a party official said.
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Mbeki cancels trip as Tsvangirai spurns ‘hopeless’ meeting
HARARE - PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki was forced to cancel his trip to Zimbabwe to try to break the power-sharing talks deadlock after opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangiari told him he would not attend.
Mbeki expected in Zimbabwe for elusive deal
HARARE - South African President Thabo Mbeki is expected in Harare on Monday to continue mediation efforts to break a deadlock in power-sharing talks, a Zimbabwean official said on Friday.
Zambian ruling party meets to select candidate
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's ruling party met on Friday to select a candidate for a presidential election to choose a successor to late President Levy Mwanawasa, party officials said.

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South Africa: Country Needs to Return to Economic Premier League

OPINION - IF THE looming potential of a turnaround in Zimbabwe's economy becomes reality, as is probable, it would transform the economy of the entire Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, says scenario planner Clem Sunter.
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Mbeki’s intervention self-serving

OPINION - President Thabo Mbeki’s latest attempt to get Zimbabwe negotiations back on track smacks of self-serving desperation — an attempt to salvage a bloodstained legacy and ensure an easy exit for the murderous tyrant he seems quite happy to consider a friend.
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Change of political turf: What lies ahead?

OPINION - DURING her long tenure in Parliament ZANU-PF legislator for Gutu South, Shuvai Mahofa, would break into her trademark song: Zimbabwe Ndeyeropa each time the ruling party imposed its will in the House of Assembly.
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Gene may hold key to neutralizing HIV - U.S. study

CHICAGO, 4 September 2008 (Reuters) - The AIDS virus is especially hard to fight because few people develop antibodies to neutralize it, but U.S. researchers said on Thursday they have found an immunity gene that may offer a new way to fight back.
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Union provides free ARVs to journalists

HARARE, (IRIN) - The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ), which represents journalists in the country, has launched a programme to provide life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to its HIV-positive members.
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Rapper T.I. retains lead on singles chart

NEW YORK (Billboard) - A week after setting a new record with a 70-place leap to No. 1, rapper T.I. logged a second round atop Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart Thursday.
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Tutu fears instability in Zimbabwe

LONDON - If President Robert Mugabe insists on staying in power in Zimbabwe, it would be the "worst possible recipe for instability" in southern Africa, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Thursday.
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African singer slams "neo-colonial" aid, business

MANKEH II, Sierra Leone - African singing star and anti-poverty campaigner Angelique Kidjo has accused Western aid donors and big businesses of exploiting poverty in Africa to promote "neo-colonial" interests.
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Robert Mugabe is back in the U.N radar

New York - The Zimbabwe crisis returns to the United Nations Security Council this month with members seeking to explore other avenues of pushing the power sharing talks to conclusion.
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"We Owe Zimbabwe No Apology" – Nigerian Foreign Minister

ABUJA - The Federal Government said it does not owe President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe any apology over its stand on the June run-off elections.
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Mugabe hands Coventry cash

Harare - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Friday handed the country's only Olympic medallist in Beijing a $100 000 cash reward for her performance at the games.
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Zimbabwe parties talk before summit

Negotiators from Zimbabwe's rival parties are meeting in a bid to reach a settlement to the country's crisis before a regional summit, a spokesman for an opposition faction said Friday.
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'SA respects Botswana boycott'

PRETORIA - Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Friday she respected the Botswana president's decision to not attend the SADC summit this weekend.
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Mugabe to chill summit?

When Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe attends a weekend summit he will face protests and pressure to surrender at least some of his power.
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Zimbabwe rivals in attendance as key summit opens

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - A summit of southern African leaders opened on Saturday with Zimbabwe's political rivals in attendance, and as negotiators aimed to reach a deal to end the country's political crisis.
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Zimbabwe's 'easy deal' slipping away

President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai were locked in talks until the wee hours of Monday morning, having failed to reach a swift agreement on the sticking points that keep them apart.
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Caesar Zvayi deported from Botswana

Controversial self-confessed Robert Mugabe mouthpiece, Caesar Zvayi, who has been hiding in Botswana, was on Friday afternoon sent back home. He is known to be on the list of 137 people published by the European Union, who are being subjected to targeted sanctions for being part of Zimbabwe's ruling elite.
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Zimbabwe opposition's Biti says talks still on

HARARE, (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's opposition MDC said on Tuesday power-sharing talks with President Robert Mugabe were expected to continue on Wednesday after the third day of negotiations ended.
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Tsvangirai leaves marathon Zimbabwe crisis talks

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai met for a third day of power-sharing talks on Tuesday amid fears the negotiations could collapse because of differences over which of them will ultimately lead the country.
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Zimbabwe's Mugabe and breakaway MDC faction sign deal

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and breakaway opposition MDC leader Arthur Mutambara signed a power-sharing deal on Tuesday and plan to form a national unity government, a senior ruling party official said.
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Opinion & Analysis

Street life on Kwame Nkrumah - Chief K Masimba Biriwasha
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OPINION - Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, is full of buildings that look like giant matchboxes at night.
Violet Gonda interviews Glen Mpani
Swradioafrica Interview - The discussion on the programme Hot Seat this week looks at the effectiveness of the main MDC party in tackling the Mugabe regime.
Zimbabwe 2008: Lessons from US
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OPINION: The just ended democratic convention is pregnant with lessons not only for the United States but for Zimbabwe, a country whose promise has been frozen in a state that even elections cannot change.
The MDC should respect parliament
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OPINION: The MDC's booing and jeering of Robert Mugabe as he gave his opening address at parliament was ill-advised. Sure, it will have delighted the western media, but it made the MDC look like boozers' league rejects, rather than a supposed government-in-waiting.
Power sharing or votes?
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OPINION: What's the use of having elections if leaders can share power regardless of the outcome? Who needs elections if leaders can talk it out and share power?
South Africa - Land reform vs Investment
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OPINION: As the bill allowing for land expropriation is put on hold, Caiphus Kgosana finds that the fear of offending foreign investors will often override public interest.
Don't heed these cries of 'colonialist'
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On the streets of Kinshasa years ago, during a protest against the then-dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, I remember someone in the crowd cornering me, an American reporter, and demanding to know why the United States had not sent troops to intervene.
Levy Mwanawasa, R.I.P.
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By the low standards of rulership we have unfortunately had to get accustomed to in Africa, Zambia’s just-deceased president Levy Mwanawasa was a cut above the norm.

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