Zimbabwe

World Cup roadshow rolls into Zimbabwe

HARARE, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- The FIFA World Cup Trophy roadshow rolled into Zimbabwe Thursday night with President Mugabe pledging to lead the country in according the iconic symbol of global sport the respect it deserved. The...

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Zimbabwe asks IMF to release funds for agricultural inputs

HARARE, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Tendai Biti has written to IMF asking the international institution to urgently release 50 million U.S. dollars of the over 500 million dollars allocation to Zimbabwe to...

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Zimbabwe, S.Africa sign investment protection deal

By Nelson Banya HARARE, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe signed an investment protection agreement with neighbouring South Africa on Friday in a bid to draw funding to fix its battered economy, but doubts remain over the security of...

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A new SA task team for Zimbabwe

Former president Thabo Mbeki has been formally removed as the Southern African region's mediator in the Zimbabwe crisis, government announced this week. At the same time, the South African team appointed by President Jacob Zuma...

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Zuma Piles Pressure on Unity Govt

A HIGH powered South African delegation is expected in Harare on Sunday to speed up talks among partners in the shaky inclusive government, as it emerged yesterday that the negotiators of the global political agreement (GPA)...

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Zimbabwe: Zanu PF, MDC in Limbo

THE deadline given by the regional community in Maputo passed on Friday last week without a single decision regarding the issues that are still outstanding being met. The political agreements were signed by the three parties to...

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Treason trial of Zimbabwe PM ally adjourned to Jan

HARARE (Reuters) - The trial of a top ally of Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on terrorism charges has been adjourned to January next year after a key prosecution witness failed to attend court on Friday.

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Zimbabwe: Youth Ministers Travel to Rwanda for 'Genocide' Study

ZANU PF Youth Minister Saviour Kasukuwere and his MDC Deputy, Thamsanqa Mahlangu, left Harare for Rwanda on Thursday. Mahlangu, who was a guest on our Behind the Headlines programme, told us they were going to the Rwandan...

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Zimbabwe: Small Scale Tobacco Farmers Hamstrung By Lack of Inputs

Small scale tobacco farmers are struggling to get inputs, a situation threatening to reduce by a fifth the projected output of 65 000 kg next season. Focus for inputs have largely been on maize farmers to the neglect of the...

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Namibia: The Pathology of Power And Paranoia

With Namibia's parliamentary and presidential elections on 27-28 November, hype and obsession mount by the day. The assumption that democracy is about competition between contesting political programmes of parties seeking to...

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