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A Zimbabwean regional magistrate on Tuesday acquitted a top official of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC party of rape charges, bringing to six the number of MDC parliamentarians who have been freed by the courts since the setting up of the inclusive government last February.

Defence lawyers for a top prime minister's aide can raise torture allegations at his trial, a judge ruled Wednesday in a case that has shaken Zimbabwe's troubled coalition government.

Zimbabwean police arrested four students at Bindura University of Science Education on Monday for "conduct that is likely to breach the peace," student sources said.

The African regional organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation has called on Robert Mugabe and the police to immediately release five members of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions , who were arrested over the weekend.

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai confirmed on Tuesday that he will attend a cabinet meeting following his party's decision to end its boycott.

African countries applaud China for honoring all pledges made under the eight-point plan for assistance to Africa, enunciated by President Hu Jintao at the Forum on Africa-China summit in Beijing three years ago, a senior Zimbabwean official said.

A weekend spate of arrests of trade unionists and students activists is set to further threaten Zimbabwea s political stability, with observers arguing that it is clear that Robert Mugabe has no intention of abiding by regional calls to uphold the Global Political Agreement.

Tens of thousands of girls and boys abused as economic collapse affects family structures, child protection and policing Children in Harare, where one clinic says it is seeing an average of 20 child abuse victims a day.

"There is nothing in the GPA that has not been done by ZANU PF, nothing at all. We have fulfilled everything that the GPA wanted us to fulfill": Robert Mugabe, 24 October 2009 October has been a month characterised by violence, lawlessness, corruption and the complete abuse of power for partisan and personal objectives.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has met with several African leaders on the sidelines of the fourth ministerial meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation which opened on Sunday at this Egyptian tourist resort.

Reporters Without Borders has written to Tomas Salamao, the executive secretary of the Southern African Development Community, on the eve of a SADC meeting in Maputo on the situation in Zimbabwe.

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Forty years ago, President Nixon used the unfortunate phrase "War on Drugs," launching a misguided crusade that has encouraged street violence, eaten away at state budgets and packed our prisons with nonviolent offenders.

China is set to expand its economic presence in Africa at a two-day summit in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh that starts on Sunday.

The Zimbabwean human rights activist Jestina Mukoko, right, celebrates outside the court in September.

A spokesman for Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says he holds high hopes for today's scheduled summit of SADC leaders in Maputo.

Economic comeback is faltering in the wake of the unity government's collapse, writes Jason Moyo.

The so-called Kimberley Process, a joint international government, industry and civil society initiative to stem the flow of conflict diamonds, will decide at its annual meeting in Namibia this week whether to suspend Zimbabwe from its certification plan.

Human rights and media lawyer, Mordecai Mahlangu, was arrested on Monday for allegedly obstructing the course of justice, in a case involving MDC official Roy Bennett.

ON her programme Hot Seat Violet Gonda last week interviewed Botswana's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Phandu Skelemani on the Zimbabwe unity government crisis.