In response to international clamors for justice, Zimbabwe’s president today ruled out prosecuting those behind the 2008 violence and killings which engulfed the country and accounted for about 200 deaths.
“We have embarked in earnest on the process on a national healing and integration, for the sake of our children and prosperity,” President Robert Mugabe said [...]
The Christian Science Monitor reports that the first of Zimbabwe’s new independent newspapers could be on the streets as early as this Sunday after media groups were finally granted licenses last week.
Sixteen months after the launch of the power-sharing government, the Zimbabwe Media Commission gave five groups permission to operate. Its action came after months of [...]
The treasurer general of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Roy Bennett, a longtime opponent of President Robert Mugabe, was acquitted yesterday of all charges, including terrorism, his lawyer said.
Judge Chinembiri Bhunu found Bennett not guilty of all charges: banditry, sabotage, terrorism and insurgency.
“He is now a free man,” lawyer Trust Maanda [...]
For almost a decade, the US, EU, UK, Canada and Australia have imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe, for a continued lack of democratic progression occurring from the former breadbasket of Africa.
Only recently have we seen the beginnings of perhaps a sustainable institutional infrastructure, ushered in by Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. On April 21 Mr. Tsvangirai, [...]
It has been a difficult month for the Tories across the pond in Britain – talk of internal divisions and doubts over their economic policy make question time fun to watch again. Now is the time for a positive PR campaign, some votes for the blue boys. The Guardian gets proper credit for reporting this one [...]
Marian Tupy is a policy analyst at the CATO Institute in Washington DC with a unique interest in Zimbabwean affairs. He, along with many of our readers and indeed writers, was horrified while watching images emanating from Zimbabwe covering the cholera outbreak, and was baffled as to why it wasn’t nipped in the bud at [...]
Far be it for me to quash birthday fever, Mr. Mugabe.
I just find it alarming that we’re celebrating after a year of systematic destruction to your government’s infrastructure. I find it frightening that you are so jubilant this soon after knowingly passing an ‘indigenization‘ bill that would deter not only fresh investment to an already heavily-sanctioned [...]
President Robert Mugabe today stated that he and his partners in Zimbabwe’s unity government agreed that “sanctions must go“, a day after the European Union extended its restrictions on the country.
“We are in agreement,” Mugabe told reporters after a tourism conference in Harare. “We are all agreed that the sanctions must go.”
Mugabe has long claimed [...]
Lifting the many sanctions burdening Zimbabwe is clearly essential for the nation’s growth. Importers would be able to re-develop their once bountiful export market, private enterprise would be promoted to flourish, the agricultural and mining sectors can regroup and work diligently without threat of corruption and communities can be given the resources to fight the [...]
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is pressing the world to end sanctions on his country as it climbs out of political and economic abyss, however wherever he goes the shadow of Robert Mugabe follows. Now, the Prime Minister seeks support from the booming China, a nation more than willing to forgo human rights abuses and [...]
