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Airplane Crashes Into Wild Pig On Runway, Reveals Zimbabwe's Air Safety Failures

Times Online | Jan Raath | Posted 11.08.2009 | World


It took a wild pig on the runway at Harare International Airport to reveal what many Zimbabweans have long feared: the country's Civil Aviation Author...

The Last Resort: A Moving Memoir About Growing up in Zimbabwe

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 10.17.2009 | Books


Michealene Cristini Risley

His memoir paints an uncanny sense of what is was like growing up in Zimbabwe as a child, and returning to this country as an adult in the midst of the current political crisis under Robert Mugabe.

Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai: Mugabe Violated Power-Sharing Deal

AFP | Posted 09.14.2009 | World


Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Sunday accused President Robert Mugabe of violating their power-sharing deal, as thousands rallied to mar...

New Strategy For Afghanistan, Good News Out Of Pakistan, Japan's Elections, Hondurus Crisis, And Columbia's Undemocratic Referendum

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 11.11.2009 | World


Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

These Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: A New Strategy for Afghanistan and A Rare Bit of Good News Out of Pakistan SI Analysis: The US ...

Mugabe Calls The West 'Neocolonialists'

AP | CHENGETAI ZVAUYA | Posted 11.11.2009 | World


HARARE, Zimbabwe — Hours before the first EU visit to Zimbabwe in eight years, President Robert Mugabe accused the West on Friday of wanting to ...

Thamsanqa Mahlangu: Zimbabwe Minister Arrested Over Stolen Cellphone Prompts Concerns Of Opposition Harassment

AFP | Posted 08.29.2009 | World


Zimbabwe's deputy youth minister was arrested Tuesday over a stolen cellphone prompting a warning by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party that its...

Mugabe Loyalists Break Up Zimbabwe Constitutional Convention

Al Jazeera English | Posted 08.13.2009 | World


A conference aimed at drawing up a new constitution for Zimbabwe has ended in chaos after supporters of Robert Mugabe, the president, disrupted the pr...

Mugabe: Asst. U.S. Sec. Of State Johnnie Carson Is An 'Idiot'

AP | ANGUS SHAW | Posted 08.06.2009 | World


HARARE, Zimbabwe — President Robert Mugabe described the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs as "an idiot" after an acrimoniou...

Tsvangirai: Zimbabwe's Reforms Are Underway

Sky News | Posted 07.23.2009 | World


Mr Tsvangirai was speaking in London as he wrapped up a tour of the United States and Europe. After talks in Downing Street, Prime Minister Gordon Br...

Obama, Tsvangirai Meeting Rankles Mugabe Allies

AP | ANGUS SHAW | Posted 07.16.2009 | World


HARARE, Zimbabwe — The warm Western welcome Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has been receiving is rankling some of his governing partners, stat...

Planning for a Post-Pariah Zimbabwe

Alexander Noyes | Posted 06.27.2009 | World


Alexander Noyes

Calls for Mugabe to step aside are welcome, but must be buttressed by a sensible and coordinated plan of action.

Mugabe Refusing To Swear-In Roy Bennett: MDC Officials

allAfrica | Posted 04.25.2009 | World


It's reported that Robert Mugabe is refusing to swear in Roy Bennett, the MDC Deputy Minister of Agriculture designate, to the new coalition governmen...

The Horror and Hope of Zimbabwe: Roy Bennett Jailed, Released, and Forgives

Joe Trippi | Posted 04.13.2009 | World


Joe Trippi

I want to thank those who helped put a spotlight on Roy's arrest and helped keep the story alive when so many in the press couldn't be bothered with something happening in Africa.

Robert Mugabe: White Farmers Must Vacate Their Land

AP | Posted 03.31.2009 | World


CHINHOYI, Zimbabwe — With his nation's economy in shambles, President Robert Mugabe threw himself a lavish 85th birthday party Saturday, using t...

Blogs Are Making a Difference in Zimbabwe

Joe Trippi | Posted 03.22.2009 | World


Joe Trippi

If you think spreading the word about Roy Bennett doesn't matter, then read this letter I received from Zimbabwe today.

As Obama Urges Action on Zimbabwe, Health Crisis Worsens

Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 03.05.2009 | World


Jirair Ratevosian

As hopeful rhetoric permeates US leadership, Zimbabwe's health crisis is taking a turn for the worse. The average life expectancy has plummeted from 62 in the early 1990s to 36 today.

Zimbabwe's Opposition Agrees To Unity Government With Mugabe

Mail & Guardian Online | Posted 03.02.2009 | World


Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) decided on Friday to enter a unity government with Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF, an opposition p...

Zimbabwe Opposition Rejects Power-Sharing Deal With Mugabe

Sapa-dpa | Posted 02.27.2009 | World


Pretoria - Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on Tuesday blasted as "malicious" assurances given by southern African leaders a...

Mugabe May Be Evil, But Tsvangirai Is No Saint

GroundReport | Posted 02.16.2009 | World


GroundReport

Originally published on GroundReport.com, the citizen journalism platform that covers world news at the local level. By Charles Rukuni. Zimbabwean ...

Zimbabwe's Opposition Leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, Agrees To Meet Mugabe, Demands Activists' Release

Mail & Guardian Online | Posted 02.15.2009 | World


Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, on Thursday demanded the unconditional release of detained party activists ...

Zimbabwe Allegedly Tortures 2 Year Old In Prison

Afrodissident | Posted 02.14.2009 | World


There are no limits to the brutality that Zimbabwe's Zanu PF government is prepared to employ in ensuring its continued grip on power. Recently, human...

With Zimbabwe in Crisis, Children Are Locked Out of Schools

GroundReport | Posted 02.06.2009 | World


GroundReport

Originally published on GroundReport.com, the citizen journalism site covering world news at the local level. As conditions continue to deteriorate ...

"A Christmas Carol in Zimbabwe"

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 01.22.2009 | World


Michealene Cristini Risley

My husband and I have been reading the classic "A Christmas Carol" to our children.The book represents our countdown to Christmas. I can't help but get sidetracked in my mind to the situation in Zimbabwe.

US Abandons Zimbabwe Power-Sharing Deal, Calls Mugabe 'A Man Who's Lost It'

AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 01.21.2009 | World


PRETORIA, South Africa — The U.S. can no longer support a proposed Zimbabwean power-sharing deal that would leave Robert Mugabe, "a man who's lo...

Time for global civil disobedience?: Five things to Advance the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 01.10.2009 | World


Kumi Naidoo

Today is day of celebration for the progress we have made in the 60 years since the Declaration was signed. However, the litany of abuses does not afford us a second of self-congratulation.