Zimbabwe
Gobby Mutambara attacks Khama for calling for fresh elections
HARARE - The ever angry motor-mouthed leader of the smaller faction of Zimbabwe's divided opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Arthur Mutambara has attacked President Ian Khama's call for a fresh presidential election in Zimbabwe. Many, now believe the robotics professor is making reckless statements all over the place to generate news for his increasingly irrelevant outfit, bereft of policy or strategy beyond hibernating in Robert Mugabe's pockets.
"Robert Mugabe stronger than a year ago" - US
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's grip on power appears stronger now than a year ago even as his country's humanitarian and economic crisis worsens, the U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe said on Thursday....
In Zimbabwe, payback time for some
HARARE, Zimbabwe - The "green bomber" dropped into a rural "bottle store" the other day to get a bottle of Lion beer to go, but he wasn't fast enough. Right away he was surrounded by five members of the opposition, people he used to beat up, in a township bar where he used to be king....
Amazing: Zimbabwe regimes exporting seed maize to South Africa
JOHANNESBURG - An agricultural watchdog organisation, Afri Compliance, on Thursday expressed concern over large quantities of maize seed being imported from Zimbabwe to South Africa....
Annan to visit Zimbabwe despite Robert Mugabe's objection
HARARE - Former United Nations chief Kofi Annan will travel to Zimbabwe, a spokesperson said on Thursday, despite objections by President Robert Mugabe's government which branded the trip a "partisan mission". ...
Tsvangirai: Zimbabwe needs government within 2 months
BERLIN — Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change leader said Thursday that he and President Robert Mugabe need to form a government within two months in order to stave off a catastrophic humanitarian crisis....
South Africa to withhold Zimbabwe aid over deadlock
HARARE (Reuters) - South Africa said on Thursday it will withhold aid for Zimbabwe until a representative government is in place, in what appeared to be the first punitive measure by a regional country to enforce a power-sharing agreement....World Vision responding to cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe
Harare - A cholera outbreak that recently claimed lives in Zimbabwe's capital Harare has spread to the busy town of Beitbridge in southern Zimbabwe, killing as many as 44 more people and infected hundreds more. One World Vision staff member in the agency's Limpopo community development program is among the dead; two other staffers are currently hospitalized with cholera. ...
South Africa 'extremely concerned' about Zimbabwe
CAPE TOWN - South Africa on Thursday lambasted Zimbabwe's political leaders for failing to reach agreement on outstanding issues and announced immediate help to deal with the cholera outbreak there. ...
Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic spreads into South Africa
MUSINA - With sewage seeping into the Limpopo River from the border town of Beitbridge, people in Musina say they are nervous that Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic is moving south....
Annan and Jimmy Carter urged to postpone Zimbabwe visit by regime
HARARE - GOVERNMENT has advised former United Nations secretary-general Mr Kofi Annan, former United States president Mr Jimmy Carter and Ms Graca Machel to postpone their intended visit to Zimbabwe. ...
Biti challenges separation of charges
HARARE - MDC-T secretary-general and Harare East member of the House of Assembly Tendai Biti, who is being charged with treason, communicating falsehoods prejudicial to the State, insulting the President and causing disaffection among the defence forces, on Monday challenged the separation of the charges for trial. ...
Zimbabwe rivals to meet Mbeki in South Africa
HARARE - Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party and the opposition will meet in South Africa next week to review President Robert Mubabe's plan to unilaterally form a unity government, an opposition official said on Thursday....
Hungry in Zimbabwe: `If you rest, you starve'
MHANGURA, Zimbabwe — Katy Phiri, who is in her 70s, picks up single corn kernels spilled from trucks that ferry the harvest to market. She says she hasn't eaten for three days....
Zimbabwe health services 'in state of collapse'
HARARE - Zimbabwe's health services, once regarded among the best in Africa, are "in a state of collapse" with its main hospitals closed and a cholera epidemic raging, a leading medical body said Wednesday....
MDC has not seen Amendment draft sent to Mbeki
HARARE, - The Zimbabwean regime has sent a draft copy of a constitutional amendment giving Zanu PF leader Robert Mugabe the power to form a government unilaterally to mediator Thabo Mbeki for review, the state-run Herald newspaper said on Wednesday. Meanwhile MDC has launched its own initiative of drafting own Constitutional amendment, setting a new frontier of power games in the Parliament....
It's ridiculous that Prime Minister has no passport - Tsvangirai
PARIS - Zimbabwe's Prime-minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai Tuesday charged that entrenched Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe had denied him a passport, forcing him to travel on special documents through Europe. ...
Tsvangirai urges Europe to increase food aid to Zimbabwe
PARIS - Morgan Tsvangirai, the prime minister-designate of Zimbabwe, made an urgent appeal to European countries Tuesday to be generous with food aid to alleviate increasingly critical food shortages in his country....
Court drops two charges against Biti
Harare - A Zimbabwean court on Tuesday dropped two charges against the main opposition party's general secretary Tendai Biti, but he still faces trial for treason, his lawyer said. ...
Robert Mugabe drafting law on unity government
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe is drafting a constitutional amendment empowering President Robert Mugabe to form a unity government, the information minister said on Tuesday, despite the opposition's refusal to join a cabinet....
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