Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who was supposed to have arrived in Harare yesterday for talks with his Zimbabwean counterpart, President Robert Mugabe, failed to come following the assassination of Nigeria’s Justice Minister, Bola Ige. Ige, a renowned politician and critic of previous military rulers, was gunned down on Sunday [23 December] in Ibadan, the capital [...]
Supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling party have killed a third member of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in a week, an MDC official said on Tuesday.
President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF meanwhile accused the MDC and Britain of supporting a campaign of violence ahead of elections in March next year. Trymore Midzi, an MDC [...]
Harare – Contrary to expectations that the Zimbabwe government’s land resettlement exercise would benefit landless peasants, Joseph Made, the agriculture minister, has allocated prime farms to top army, government and Zanu PF officials under the murky commercial settlement scheme.
Among the officials allocated prime land were war veterans; Joseph Chinotimba, the leader and self-styled commander [...]
Zanu PF has resolved to bar the opposition MDC party from campaigning in the rural constituencies and will use war veterans to effect this strategy, a senior party official has said.
In what is promising to be a repeat of last year’s parliamentary election campaign scenario when war vets terrorised villagers and effectively barred the [...]
Gweru -At his party’s first annual conference at the weekend, defiant opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai vowed to unseat President Robert Mugabe in elections, despite the violence he claimed his opponent has unleashed.
The former trade unionist, who is expected to be endorsed as the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) candidate for presidential elections in March, [...]
Zimbabwe’s Parliament has adjourned for the year without passing two bills seen as a bid by beleaguered President Robert Mugabe to curb media freedom and to block independent monitoring of elections next year.
“We have adjourned because the parliamentary legal committee needed more time to consider the access to information bill and the general laws [...]
Zimbabwe could be suspended from Commonwealth unless it stops violating democratic values London The Commonwealth put Zimbabwe on notice yesterday that it could face suspension if it doesn’t halt “persistent violation” of democratic values and the rule of law.
Foreign ministers from the eight-nation Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, including Canada, Britain, Nigeria and Australia, put [...]
President Robert Mugabe is recalling thousands of soldiers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to help him fight a crucial presidential election in March next year, said officials on Thursday.
They said there would be no fresh troop deployments in the DRC and all Zimbabwean soldiers had also been barred from taking leave [...]
“It’s only an ill-advised fly that follows a corpse to the grave,” said a senior ZANU PF central committee member, summing up the mood here over President Robert Mugabe’s decision to seek re-election in next year’s watershed ballot.
While the state media raved and ranted over the four-day talk shop, senior Zanu PF officials and [...]
Four bills being pushed through parliament in Harare have put paid to any chance that Zimbabwe’s presidential elections will be recognised internationally, diplomats said yesterday. They said the passage of the bills – the public order and security bill, the information bill, and bills to amend the country’s electoral laws and industrial relations act made [...]
