The beleaguered talks between rival parties ZANU-PF and MDC have failed to cement a power-sharing deal between President Robert Mugabe and Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, even a s the opposition finds its voice...
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Opinion Barry Artiste Guess Mugabe should get used to the Boos. http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=749653 Mugabe booed at Zimbabwe parliament opening Cris Chinaka, Reuters (Photo Inset) Zimbabwe's...
The BBC uses the word "stalemate" in its headline, but this isn't quite accurate: current President Robert Mugabe holds all the cards, and Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC party could well be frozen out of the newly-reformed...
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Update: the summit between Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party and the opposition MDC continues after three days. Reports that Morgan Tsvangirai, opposition leader, has abandoned the talks have been denied by Tsvangirai himself and Thabo Mbeki, President of neighboring South...
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There's a rock 'n' roll legend (I do not know if it's actually true) about how Slash, of Guns 'n' Roses fame, had hired someone to follow him on his nightly booze binges to carry him home afterward. In a similar...
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Robert Mugabe has been warned by Thabo Mbeki that he will face prosecution for the crimes he has committed during his 28 years in power in Zimbabwe, unless he signs a deal to give up all effective power."Mbeki, who...
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" The Mugabe regime's final lifeline is a small Vienna-based software company that helps it to keep printing the money it relies on for its survival, The Independent can reveal. Jura JSP, an Austro-Hungarian...
Talks began today between the Zimbabwean government and opposition parties. These talks are aimed at bringing an end to the country's political crisis and constant violence.Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai shook...
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"HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwe's troubled central bank introduced new $100 billion banknotes Saturday in a desperate bid to ease the recurrent cash shortages plaguing the inflation-ravaged economy. ...
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Political uncertainty in Zimbabwe is proving costly to its economy. Soaring Inflation has been making all kind of records in Zimbabwe and this latest figure shouldn't surprise anybody. " Zimbabwe's...
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As Zimbabwe announces that it will start a renewed crackdown on opposition leaders, lawmakers and activists in the coming days, South Africa's ruling party has turned on the pressure.."African National Congress leaders have urged President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party to...
Mugabe has now come out and denounced the Group of Eight's decision to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe's officials, calling it 'a colonial and racist effort led by Britain and the United States to install a puppet...
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The Group of Eight nations that have gathered at the G8 Summit have agreed to impose sanctions against Zimbabwe's leadership because of the violence that occured during the 're-election' of Robert Mugabe.The Group of...
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UN should put this case into account....they need a shelter to live..."Armed men in Zimbabwe have attacked a group of internally displaced people outside the capital, Harare. The attack took place at a camp on...
In 2004, former British army officer Simon Mann led a privately funded effort to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea. Mann's mission fell flat, though, as he and his fellow mercenaries were arrested in...