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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has branded a top US envoy "an idiot" with a condescending attitude.

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 ...

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

Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe has taken a swipe on US' Johnnie Carson, calling him "an idiot" following an exchange between the two in Libya.

Though Zimbabwe has barely embarked on making a new constitution as a key step toward holding another round of elections after the disastrous ballots of 2008, debate has sprung up as to whether the current unity government should last more than two years.

The challenges of rebuilding the country's ruined political and economic systems are daunting, and the global recession has seriously hurt trade and investment opportunities, as well as remittances from diaspora workers that provide eight percent of the country's GDP.

The path to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe was eerily quiet. The last time I was here was in 1994.

The BBC's Mike Thomson, in a series of reports from Zimbabwe in early June, spoke to 'a Zimbabwean mother and daughter who are still too afraid to return home after being abducted and repeatedly raped by militiamen from President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party a year ago.' Their fear has not lessened despite the new alleged 'power-sharing' coalition ...

High Court Judge, Justice Charles Hungwe on Monday 29 June 2009 deferred to Wednesday 01 July 2009 an application for referral of the matter involving seven abductees to the Supreme Court, to allow the State to prepare its opposing papers.

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.

Though Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai reassured the country on Tuesday that the government was not in danger of falling apart over differences among its partners, Monday's broadside from a top official of his Movement for Democratic Change made clear that prosecutions of MDC officials are deeply troubling the partnership.

Zimbabwe's military, controlled by President Robert Mugabe's political party, violently took over diamond fields in Zimbabwe last year and has used the illicit revenues to buy the loyalty of restive soldiers and enrich party leaders, Human Rights Watch charged in a report released Friday.

Lawyers for Zimbabwean parliamentarian Shuah Mudiwa on Monday were unable to enter an appeal in Mutare magistrate court of his conviction Saturday on charges he kidnapped a 12-year-old girl in 2007, or seek bail for him, as his court docket could not be found.

THE Honourable Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe - Morgan Tsvangirai and the party that he leads - the Movement for Democratic Change , should watch out.

ZIMBABWE'S army is forcing hundreds of children to dig for diamonds to bankroll senior lieutenants of President Robert Mugabe, a Human Rights Watch investigation has found.

Nearing the end of his European tour, Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai met on Monday with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, formally bringing to a close years of frosty bilateral relations between Harare and London.

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HEADLINES author/source:Guardian published:Thu 18-Jun-2009 Chikomba was a cameraman found beaten to death David Smith The mounted head of a buffalo stared down at me beside the smoky, oak-panelled bar of the New Ambassador hotel.

Amnesty International's director said Thursday the situation in Zimbabwe remains grim despite promises of reform and that some in President Robert Mugabe's party still regard violence as a legitimate political tool.

So far Morgan Tsvangirai's ground-breaking tour of America and Europe has brought plaudits rather than cash for Zimbabwe's battered economy IT IS Monday, so it must be Berlin.