Robert Mugabe

Conjuring Up a State of Emergency

There are growing suspicions that the looting by soldiers in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, may be an elaborate ruse to allow President Robert Mugabe to declare a state of emergency, suspending the constitution and, with it,...

Zimbabwe Power Rivals Yet To Approve Key Amendment

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai have yet to approve a constitutional amendment critical to forming a unity government, state media said Sunday. The opposition Movement for Democratic...

Mutiny fears in Zimbabwe as army-police standoff grows

By KITSEPILE NYATHI, NATION CorrespondentPosted Tuesday, December 2 2008 at 16:28 Disgruntled Zimbabwean soldiers clashed with anti-riot police trying to stop them from looting shops in central Harare for the sixth day as fears...

An Exclusive Interview With The Bishop of Harare

The Rt Rev Dr Sebastian Bakare is currently on a speaking tour of Australia. The Bishop arrived from Stockholm Sweden where he received a Human Rights Award. I had the opportunity to interview Rev Bakare in private without the...

Mugabe to defy 'illegal seizure of whiteowned farm ruling'

President Robert Mugabe's government will defy an international court ruling that its seizures of white-owned farms were illegal, it said today. By Sebastien Berger Southern Africa Correspondent The land grab, which allowed Mr...

Tsvangirai seeks help for Zimbabwe crisis

By Nelson Banya HARARE (Reuters) - Hundreds of angry Zimbabweans attacked soldiers carrying out a crackdown on illegal foreign currency trading in the capital Harare on Monday in a further sign of the country's collapse. The...

The police beg us for food. What hope is there?

All around, the effects of the Zimbabwean land programme are affecting our everyday life. How can people eat when those trying to produce food on the land are still being forcibly removed? How can a country go forward when...

Cholera-hit Zimbabwe cuts water supplies to capital (AFP)

AFP - Zimbabwe has cut water supplies to the capital Harare, state media said Monday, as the health minister urged the public to stop shaking hands in a desperate bid to curb a deadly cholera epidemic.

Zimbabwe: MDC and Zanu PF Talks Expected to Resume Next Week

There are reports that talks to establish the elusive power-sharing government might be entering their final stage, when negotiators from ZANU PF and the two MDC's meet again early next week. The negotiators broke off talks in...

Soldiers go on rampage in Zimbabwe capital

From correspondents in Africa, 06:00 AM IST Mobs of uniformed but unarmed soldiers followed by hundreds of civilians went on the rampage in Harare late Monday in the first serious unrest in Zimbabwe in a decade. Several live...