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10 hrs ago | Mail & Guardian

Tsvangirai attends Cabinet after ending boycott

Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and ministers from his party attended a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday after recently ending a three-week boycott of the country's fragile unity government.

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Related Topix: Zimbabwe, Africa, World News, Robert Mugabe

18 hrs ago | AllAfrica.com

Zimbabwe: Farm Labour Shortage Threatens Food Production

An acute shortage of labourers on Zimbabwe's newly resettled farms, combined with the farmers' inability to raise loans from financial institutions to purchase agricultural inputs, and money owed to them by the Grain Marketing Board , do not bode well for food insecurity.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Agriculture, Science, Robert Mugabe

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Voice of America

Zimbabwe Court to Allow Torture Allegations in Bennett Trial

A Zimbabwe High Court judge has ruled Movement for Democratic Change treasurer-general Roy Bennett may raise allegations of torture during his treason trial.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa

National Post

Mugabe demonstrates you can't teach on old despot new tricks

Full Comment's Araminta Wordsworth brings you a regular dose of international punditry at its finest.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa,

IRIN News

ZIMBABWE: Oversight body 'not toothless'

Intervention by the Southern African Development Community to resolve a dispute between Zimbabwe's unity government partners has highlighted the redundancy of an oversight body specifically established to smooth the road of political reconciliation.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Robert Mugabe, Mozambique

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Voice of America

Member of Parliament of Zimbabwe's MDC Acquitted on Rape Charge

A magistrate in Gweru, capital of Zimbabwe's Midlands province, on Tuesday acquitted House Member Blessing Chebundo of the Movement for Democratic Change formation led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of a charge of rape of a teenage girl.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa,

New York Times

Zimbabwe: Party Leader's Trial Begins

The trial of Roy Bennett, a leader in the Movement for Democratic Change and its choice for deputy agriculture minister, started Monday amid signs that President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party were continuing to crack down on independent groups they see as political adversaries.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Robert Mugabe

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Daily Monitor

Mugabe booed but clings on

This week Zimbabwe's diamond industry was saved from a ban by the 70-member global diamond trading group as a result of a campaign from human rights organisations.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa,

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Voice of America

Authorities in Zimbabwe Charge Lawyer With Obstruction for Objecting to Subpoena

Police in Zimbabwe Tuesday released a lawyer arrested Monday for objecting to a subpoena issued for his client, Peter Hitschmann, who served a prison term for possession of weapons in connection with an alleged 2006 plot to assassinate President Robert Mugabe.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Robert Mugabe, Terrorism

Sat Nov 07, 2009

TheNational

Activists sue Zimbabwe for $500m

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

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Related Topix: Activism, World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Robert Mugabe

Fri Nov 06, 2009

New York Times

Group Won't Suspend Zimbabwe on Mining Abuses

A diamond mining pit in the Marange fields of Zimbabwe. A plan calls for withdrawal of the Zimbabwe military from the fields.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Robert Mugabe, Namibia,

SW Radio Africa

Reporters Without Borders

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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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Mozambique, Journalism, Robert Mugabe

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Raw Story

Southern African leaders to meet on Zimbabwe crisis

Southern African regional leaders meet Thursday in the Mozambican capital Maputo for a summit aimed at reviving the troubled power-sharing agreement in Zimbabwe, deadlocked for nearly three weeks.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Mozambique, Robert Mugabe, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Wed Nov 04, 2009

AllAfrica.com

Zimbabwe: Minister Cleared in Phone Theft Case

A Zimbabwean deputy minister from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party who was arrested for allegedly stealing a cell phone from an ally of President Robert Mugabe has been cleared of the charges.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Travel, Zimbabwe Travel, Robert Mugabe, Joseph Kabila

The Star

'China will come on our terms'

By Kirby Chien and Deborah Kan Africa was "sick and tired" of having its natural resources exploited by China and getting little development in return, Zimbabwe's deputy prime minister said on Friday.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Zimbabwe, Africa,

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Voice of America

Zimbabwe Delegation to Kimberly Meeting in Namibia Said to Threaten NGOs

Representatives of Zimbabwean non-governmental organizations attending a Kimberly Process Certification Scheme meeting in Namibia scrutinizing the country's management of a diamond field in the east of the country where human rights abuses and smuggling have been reported said Tuesday they were threatened by a state delegation.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Namibia, Activism,

Voice of America

Regional Handling of Zimbabwe Gov't Crisis Escalated to Troika Heads of State

The Southern African Development Community has called a meeting Thursday in Mozambique of its troika or committee on politics, security and defense to discuss the crisis in Zimbabwe's national unity government, SADC officials said Monday.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Robert Mugabe, Democratic Republic of the Congo,

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Voice of America

Zimbabwean PM Tsvangirai Again Snubs Mugabe Cabinet - Regional Mediation Awaited

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai again led the ministers of his formation of the Movement for Democratic Change on Tuesday in boycotting the weekly cabinet meeting of the national unity government in which he shares power with President Robert Mugabe.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Robert Mugabe

Sun Nov 01, 2009

IRIN News

ZIMBABWE: Violence spikes after MDC's withdrawal from government

Violence and intimidation against members of the Movement for Democratic Change increased sharply within days of the party "disengaging" from Zimbabwe's unity government, MDC spokesman Luke Tamborinyoka told IRIN.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Life, Veteran Affairs, Robert Mugabe

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Amnesty International

African governments must pressure Zimbabwe on human rights

Police violently disperse supporters of the Movement for Democratic Change, in Harare, Zimbabwe on 23 January 2008.

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Related Topix: Activism, World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Amnesty International, Charitable Organizations

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