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Pressure mounts on Zim govt
This week’s arrest of two senior Zimbabwean journalists has underlined just how far the unity government has to go before it can restore confidence.
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New farm invasions block aid
Donors want the Zimbabwe government to stop land seizures, writes Jason Moyo.
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Zim’s blueprint for recovery
The rand would be used to measure progress, but would not become Zimbabwe’s official currency.
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No relief for Zim until debt’s paid up
In meetings with government and central bank officials an IMF delegation made repeated demands for Zimbabwe to honour its debts.
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‘Hear us, we have suffered enough’
Southern African leaders have failed miserably in saving Zimbabweans from a government that has lost all legitimacy, Graça Machel says.
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Tsvangirai back in Zim for unity talks
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday returned to Zimbabwe for the first time in more than two months, ahead of a new meeting with Robert Mugabe.
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Zim judge blasts SADC court over white farmer ruling
A top Zimbabwe judge has said a regional court had no jurisdiction to rule that 78 white farmers could keep land lost to Harare’s land-reform scheme.
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WHO: Zimbabwe cholera death toll tops 1Â 700
Zimbabwe’s cholera epidemic is picking up speed, with a total of 1 732 deaths out of 34 306 cases, the WHO said on Tuesday.
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Red Cross deploys teams to fight cholera in Zim
The Red Cross has deployed seven emergency teams normally reserved for major global disasters to fight Zimbabwe’s worsening cholera epidemic.
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Desperate Zimbabweans pour into Musina
In the blazing midday sun, Fungai Lindlela watches as her baby pushes a sticky ball of maize meal into her mouth in a makeshift refugee camp.
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Zim cholera outbreak ‘not yet under control’
The United Nations says the cholera death toll in Zimbabwe has risen to over 1 500 and case fatality rates are increasing.
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Zim appeals against release of activists
Zimbabwe has appealed against a court ruling ordering the release of Jestina Mukoko and several others accused of plotting against the government.
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Activist under lock and key at notorious prison
A Zimbabwean peace activist has been traced to a notorious maximum security prison despite a court order that she be taken to hospital.
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Zim has ‘no intention’ of releasing activists
The regime of Robert Mugabe has ”no intention” of releasing a rights activist accused of recruiting anti-government plotters, a lawyer said on Friday.
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Zimbabwe court orders release of activists
Zimbabwe’s high court ordered on Wednesday that a top rights activist, who was seized weeks ago, be released to hospital.
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Looking forward to looking back
We will count those who threw it in and left the country this year. Bloody cowards, we will lie to ourselves for comfort.
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Zimbabwe activist to appear in court on plot charge
A former Zimbabwean newscaster is expected to appear in court on Wednesday on charges of plotting to overthrow President Robert Mugabe’s government.
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Zimbabwe faces bleak Christmas amid food crisis
At overflowing dumpsters in Zimbabwe’s capital, desperate vagrants pounced on garbage bags and fought over chicken bones and scraps of discarded food.
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The lights of my life
With his son now three months old, Chief K Masimba Biriwasha reflects that the unpredictable journey of parenthood mirrors his country’s uncertainties
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I had a farm in Africa … a young man’s journey
Sean Christie gets on his bike and returns to what used to be his grandfather’s farm outside Harare.
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Mugabe ‘an impossible obstacle’ to Zim deal
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe will have to step down if any power-sharing government deal is to succeed, Britain said on Monday.
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SADC launches aid package for crisis-torn Zim
A Southern African bloc on Sunday announced humanitarian aid for Zimbabwe as the country battles food shortages and a deadly cholera outbreak.
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Zim power-sharing deal ‘hasn’t worked’
The US has declared the Zimbabwe facilitation led by former president Thabo Mbeki as a failed process that has now run its course.
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The moneychangers’ flea market in Zim’s CBD
They wear flashy garments and loud perfumes, presenting themselves as uptown yuppies.
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Mugabe refuses to go to ‘political death’
President Robert Mugabe again dismissed demands that he step down on Saturday, saying he would not go to his "political death".
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Mugabe defiant as pressure builds
Robert Mugabe told his Zanu-PF party on Friday that his country was facing a war with Britain but he would never surrender, and ”Zimbabwe is mine”.
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Mugabe: I will never surrender Zimbabwe
President Robert Mugabe on Friday told his Zanu-PF party that "Zimbabwe is mine", adding he would never surrender.
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Tsvangirai threatens to quit Zim unity talks
Zimbabwe MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Friday that his party will quit talks for a unity government if abductions of party members do not stop.
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Crisis-hit Zim rolls out Z$10-billion note
Zimbabwe’s central bank on Friday introduced a Z-billion banknote, worth on the black market, to try to ease desperate cash shortages.
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How Mugabe gets his bullets
Large quantities of weapons continue to be shipped to Zimbabwe via the DRC, according to a new report by the United Nations.
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Zanu-PF falls apart
Assassination attempt points to meltdown in the ruling party, reports Jason Moyo.
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Zim cholera death toll tops 1 100
The death toll from a cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe has soared to 1 111, the United Nations said on Thursday.
