Tanzania’s president, Jakaya Kikwete, has become the first African president to raise the issue of military intervention in Zimbabwe if the government crackdown on the Movement for Democratic Change(MDC) worsens.
“We will certainly consider it (Miltary intervetion)if asked,” said Kikwete “If we get there, to a point where military action is needed, if it’s a multilateral [...]
Al Jazeera has been denied permission to operate in Zimbabwe, a source in the Ministry of Information and Publicity told Metro.
Its Harare bureau will be moved to Johannesburg.
The source said the government was not happy with its plans to fire its correspondent Supa Mandiwanzira who is being accused of not being objective.
The MDC ’s International Affairs Secretary,Eliphas Mukonoweshuro,MDC-Gutu South., on Thursday escaped an attack by the army and Central Intelligence operatives.
“I have been chased by a car of hit men. It is a combination of Zanu-PF hoodlums and army officers who are campaigning for Zanu-PF.
“They call that campaigning but they use guns, machetes and spears to [...]
Emmerson Mnangagwa, the ZANU-PF secretary for legal affairs, recently said that a Government of National Unity (GNU) was “unavoidable” given the make-up of the country’s politics, while MDC’s secretary-general Tendai Biti told a Kenyan journalist that the run-off would not solve the crisis in the country adding that there was still room for negotiations to [...]
In a shocking revelation,Metro has established that the Mutambara faction Secretary General, Welshman Ncube is scuttling the MDC unity pact and instructed all MPs not join MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai when he visits their constituencies.
It has also emerged that some in the faction had argued that their faction should not have fielded parliamentary by-election candidates [...]
A brother to the Minister of Information was beaten to death by ZANU PF militia,the state media has been keeping a tight lid on the story.
Sindisiwe Ndlovu, a younger brother to Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, was buried on Sunday in Mberengwa.
He died on Wednesday after being assaulted by a group of twelve ZANU PF militia over disagreements [...]
Zimbabwean MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) President Morgan Tsvangirai (C) and party officials greet supporters in front of the party headquarters in the capital Harare on June 11, 2008 as the MDC unveils a bus to be used for its campaign in the run-off to the presidential election.
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The current outlook for Zimbabwe is anything but encouraging. There are three possible outcomes of the election on the 27th June; the most promising is a clean, clear win by Morgan Tsvangirai and a swift transition to a completely new government.
The others are not so promising – in one scenario Mugabe wins by rigging and [...]
