Harare, Zimbabwe News

Wild pigs living around Harare's international airport were struck by a plane, a month after causing the crash of a just-airborne aircraft there, reports said Tuesday.

Four years after her house was demolished in a blitz by Zimbabwe's government, Chipo Chama still lives in a grass thatched shack struggling to find a better home for herself and her two children.

The congress will once again rubber-stamp Robert Mugabe as the leader of the party for the next five years without opening up debate on the floor.

HEAD of delegation of the European Union Xavier Marchal yesterday said Europe was ready to restore relations with Harare if the country fully consummates the global political agreement .

Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party set the scene for the battle to succeed him as Zimbabwe's president, even as it reappointed him as leader for five more years.

ZANU PF has moved with speed to bar journalists from the independent media from covering their congress, which is fast degenerating into a fiasco following an open rebellion against Robert Mugabe.

THE use of multi currencies has thrown Zanu PF into financial trouble, a central committee report on finance for this year says.

As the ZANU-PF annual congress gets underway in Harare, an unwelcome guest is set to disturb the delegates.

THE US, the EU and other Western powers blasted the UN General Assembly for ignoring Zimbabwe's reported failure to comply with international efforts to curb trade in "blood diamonds." The 192-nation body adopted a resolution warning that "trade in conflict diamonds continues to be a matter of serious international concern" and increased vigilance ...

THE dust seems to have settled on Zanu PF's fratricidal contest for the party's presidium comprising its first secretary, two second secretaries and a national chairman.

Johannesburg - "When the tenth man finished raping me they said they were going to rape my daughter.

President Robert Mugabe is greeted by supporters at Zimbabwe's Harare Airport last year.

Johannesburg - The Red Cross says it needs $32-million to feed 220 000 Zimbabweans who cannot access hard currency in the collapsed economy.

A battle over who will eventually succeed 85-year-old Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe as party leader threatens the future of his long-ruling Zanu-PF, but analysts say an immediate split is unlikely at a congress this week.

Zanu-PF congress takes off By Sydney Kawadza Courtesy of the Zimbabwe Herald Zanu-PF's leadership converges in Harare for the Fifth National People's Congress amid hopes for better fortunes after experiencing one of its toughest years in post-independent elections.

HEADLINES author/source:Sapa published:Tue 8-Dec-2009 posted on this site:Tue 8-Dec-2009 Appeal for $378-million to speed up the reconstruction of basic infrastructure Harare - The United Nations and several aid agencies on Monday launched an appeal for $378-million to speed up the reconstruction of basic infrastructure in Zimbabwe, which is slowly ...

After gathering information on the intra-party talks, the facilitators will draft a report that South African President Jacob Zuma will present to the chairman of the SADC troika on politics, defense and security Ntungamili Nkomo Washington South African facilitators representing President Jacob Zuma were back in Harare on Monday to encourage ...

The United Nations and several aid agencies launched an appeal for 378 million dollars to speed up the reconstruction of basic infrastructure in Zimbabwe, which is slowly emerging from an economic crisis.

HEADLINES author/source:News24 posted on this site:Mon 7-Dec-2009 "How do we attract tourists?" Harare - Foreign airlines have stopped using Zimbabwe's airspace because the country's meteorological service is incapable of supplying weather information they need, according to officials.

The United Nations is appealing for $378 million for Zimbabwe to buy food and medicines and bolster health, education and sanitation in the economically crippled country.