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Another MP of Zimbabwe coalition Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic change has been jailed in what the former opposition party says is a plot by President Robert Mugabe to erode the MDC's majority in parliament with fake charges, officials said Friday.

DEPUTY Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara yesterday openly differed with President Robert Mugabe on fundamental issues at the inaugural two-day Zimbabwe Investment Conference in the capital in an apparent show of discord in the unity government.

President Obama's two-day visit to Ghana is history making only in the sense that he's the first African-American president to visit the continent.

ZIMBABWEAN Finance Minister Tendai Biti shocked the markets on Friday when he announced that Zimbabwe would re- evaluate all mining contracts and introduce a "use it or lose it" policy for its mining industry under a proposed law.

HEADLINES author/source:Herald published:Wed 8-Jul-2009 "There is no family without quarrels" Herald Reporter Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara yesterday said he was prepared to work with Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono and pleaded with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to ensure unity in the inclusive Government if the country ...

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POLICE in Zimbabwe have arrested two men who raped a 24-year-old woman then fell asleep at the scene of their crime.

A team assessing Zimbabwe's compliance with international standards to prevent the diamond trade from fueling conflict found that the nation's military had been directly involved in illegal mining and that the authorities had carried out "horrific violence against civilians," according to a memo the team gave to Zimbabwean officials.

HEADLINES author/source:Irish Times published:Wed 8-Jul-2009 His attackers were definitely Zanu PF: they had assaulted him last year The latest violence may be linked to a plan to intimidate people ahead of a constitutional referendum, writes Bill Corcoran Ominously, despite participation by the Movement for Democratic Change in a cross-party ...

LONDON: Zimbabwe will look into the possibility of adopting the rand as an alternative to the country's existing multiple currency regime, Zimbabwe's industry and commerce minister Welshman Ncube said yesterday.

Zimbabwe's high court Wednesday handed down a crushing blow to the government's case against a group of Movement for Democratic Change supporters and officials.

TEHRAN: The eighth of nine British embassy employees detained by Iranian authorities has been released, the UK foreign office says.

HEADLINES author/source:SW Radio Africa posted on this site:Mon 6-Jul-2009 "It was alleged I was the commander of the Zimbabwe Freedom Movement" By Violet Gonda Violet Gonda of SW Radio Africaa TMs Hot Seat programme interviews Michael Peter Hitschmann soon after his release from jail last Thursday Violet Gonda: My guest on the programme Hot Seat ...

The Zimbabwean coalition government cannot afford to repay debts incurred when President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF was ruling on its own and will not repay those debts.

Johnnie Carson, the United States' most senior official focused on Africa, has been labelled "an idiot" by Zimbabwean President Mugabe, following an angry exchange between the two in Libya last week, state media reported on Monday.

With her debut collection of short stories, Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah has been heralded as a major new literary voice, but she said it was a struggle to write about her homeland without being didactic.

PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says he differs with President Robert Mugabe on tactics and strategy but will defend the veteran leader's place in the transitional government to save the country from total collapse.

By ANGUS SHAW Zimbabwe has pledged to remove its troops from diamond fields in the east, an official newspaper said Sunday - a week after a rights group alleged the military was committing killings and abuses in the area.

An team of inspectors from an anti-"blood diamonds" body was wrapping up a visit to Zimbabwe Friday, where they have been investigating allegations of gross rights abuses in diamond mining.

This edited version of a report released by the National Constitutional Assembly analyses the Kariba Draft Constitution, a document negotiated in September 2007 and referenced in Article 6 of the Global Political Agreement between Zimbabwea s three primary political parties.