Robert Mugabe

The Obamanation Gets a Dire and Stark Warning From South Africa..

The Obamanation Gets a Dire and Critical Warning From South Africa.. by Alan Stang November 6, 2008 NewsWithViews.com I read this warning on my daily radio talk show last week, before the election. It is even more relevant now,...

Parties divided on change of electoral system

Calls for electoral change remain at the centre of political debate. The Freedom Front Plus does not support any electoral change, whether it's a mixed system or even electing the president directly. African Christian...

Group Leads Efforts To Document Politically Driven Rapes In Zimbabwe

Toronto's Globe and Mail on Monday examined efforts by the advocacy group AIDS-Free World to address politically driven, widespread rapes in Zimbabwe that followed the country's first round of presidential elections in March....

Street protests in Zimbabwe

Published Date: 12 November 2008 ZIMBABWEAN police broke up protests with tear gas and batons in Harare yesterday. The crackdown came as hopes fade that a power-sharing deal between president Robert Mugabe and opposition leader...

Zimbabwe food rations cut

Millions of Zimbabweans who receive food aid from the World Food Programme are having their rations cut because of a lack of money, the organisation said. By Sebastien Berger, Southern Africa Correspondent A series of poor...

Zimbabwe police beat student protesters (AAP)

Riot police beat dozens of students and pro-democracy activists marching in Zimbabwe's capital to demand a new government to tackle the country's worsening economic and political crisis. Dozens of university students and...

Sierra Leone: Koroma 'Proud' of Obama

President Koroma yesterday congratulated President-elect of the United States of America Barack Obama, the African-American Senator from Illinois, on his historic election to the White House, apparently the most powerful office...

South Africa: Zille Calls for Tolerance on Remembrance Day

Posted to the web 11 November 2008 Francis Hweshe Cape Town Twenty-five-thousand South Africans who were killed during World War 1 were honoured in the city on Sunday to mark the annual Remembrance Day. The day was observed...

Africa: Obama's Big Challenge - Managing Africa's Hopes

Posted to the web 11 November 2008 Daniel Wallis and Andrew Cawthorne Kogelo Within hours of Barack Obama's election victory, Kenya sent workers to bring electricity for the first time to his late father's rural village....

Political Violence Surged In Zimbabwe In September Despite Political Pact

The Zimbabwe Peace Project said documented episodes of political violence, perpetrated in large part by militants of the ruling ZANU-PF party of President Robert Mugabe, rose 39% from August to some 1,300