Zimbabwe News

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.

A political impasse in Zim has raised concerns from regional leadership that the situation "could get out of hand", Department of International Relations director-general Ayanda Ntsaluba said.

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.

The Bulawayo City Council is providing anti-retrovirals to more than 17 000 residents while 927 died due to HIV/AIDS related illnesses in October.

There was drama at the Civil Court offices of the Bulawayo magistrates' courts yesterday afternoon when a clerk bumped into a live snake in a file she wanted to pull out.

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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.

A top aide to Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai went on trial Monday, facing terrorism and weapons-smuggling charges.

The crisis-hit country's transport ministry confirmed one of the national airline's planes collided with a group of warthogs on the runway at Harare International Airport .

Award winning African labour body of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions President, Lovemore Matombo was arrested on Sunday night while addressing members of his union in this resort town of Victoria Falls, an official confirmed on Monday.

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.

Zimbabwe remained at the top of the agenda Wednesday in an ongoing Windhoek, Namibia, meeting of the Kimberly Process which is considering a ban on the international sale of the country's diamonds over alleged human rights and other abuses in the Marange field.

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Sunday he would stay in the government and challenge President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF to implement last year's political deal in full.

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.

THE two-day Forum on China-Africa Cooperation opened today, bringing together 50 countries as China looks set to expand its economic presence in Africa.

Villagers in Muromo in Mutare West constituency have accused soldiers and members of the support unit in the area of harassing them for supporting and attending MDC functions.

Groups campaigning to suspend Zimbabwe from a diamond regulatory body say they will begin lobbying its new chair after last week's failure to oust the beleaguered African country from the organisation.

On Friday, 06 November 2009 the editor of an online paper Zimdiaspora published an article titled MUGABE PLOT TO ELIMINATE BETTY MAKONI TURNS UGLY.

An international body charged with stopping the illicit trade in diamonds that fuel conflict has decided not to suspend Zimbabwe, officials said Friday, though its investigators had concluded that Zimbabwe’s military had organized smuggling syndicates with the government’s permission and used “extreme violence” against illegal miners. .

A possible company ownership structure in Zimbabwe has shaken the business community in the country.