Zimbabwe Crisis

Hope Despite Hopelessness: A Zimbabwean in South Africa

Themba Mzingwane | Posted 04.03.2012

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I am a Zimbabwean living and working in South Africa, having recently become a legal immigrant after years of dodging police and living in constant fear of deportation.

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Tendai Biti: Brave Reformer in Mugabe's Zimbabwe

Barry D. Wood | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tendai Biti, Zimbabwe's reformist finance minister, knows something about living on the edge.

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Zuma Urges More Aid For Zimbabwe

Yahoo! News | Godfrey Marawanyika | Posted 05.25.2011

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HARARE (AFP) South African President Jacob Zuma on Friday urged donors to give more aid to Zimbabwe to revive the shattered economy, while telling the...

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Tsvangirai Mulls Leaving Mugabe Coalition Government

AP | ANGUS SHAW | Posted 05.25.2011

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HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe's former opposition party said Monday it would boycott the next Cabinet meeting and was considering disengaging from...

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Tsvangarai Meets Obama Friday To Discuss US Aid

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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JOHANNESBURG -- Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is on his first official visit in Washington this week with a decidedly difficult sales pi...

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Zimbabwe's Women Traders Keep Economy Afloat

Inter Press Service | By Tonderai Kwidini | Posted 05.25.2011

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Her small tattered book is full of lists of orders for goods such as beer, maize-meal and chemicals. On another page are addresses and phone numbers...

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Zimbabwe Cholera Epidemic Getting Worse

CNN | Nkepile Mabuse | Posted 05.25.2011

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The outbreak -- one of the world's largest, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) -- is only getting worse, and could be a stepping-stone t...

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Hunger Strike Day 20: Hope in transition

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 05.25.2011

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As I count down my last 24 hours, my energy, concentration, and sense of balance are waning - but I am amazed at what the human body can do.

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As Obama Urges Action on Zimbabwe, Health Crisis Worsens

Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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I won't eat while Zimbabwe starves

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 05.25.2011

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On Wednesday, I chose to have my last meal for 21 days. I will only drink water, in solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe, who are being forced to fast involuntarily.

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Zimbabwe: Hopes For a Better 2009

Caroline Gluck | Posted 05.25.2011

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2008 was an especially grim year in Zimbabwe -- and prospects for the coming year seem little better. The fact that Zimbabweans were celebrating the new year at all might seem surprising.

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Growing Cholera Epidemic Yet Zimbabwe's Hospitals Empty: No Medicine, No Supplies, No Staff

The Guardian | Chris McGreal | Posted 05.25.2011

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The signs are all around. In the spectre of cholera haunting the sewage-strewn streets of Harare's townships. In the fading bodies of the hundreds of ...

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Kenya PM: Time To Oust Zimbabwe's Mugabe

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

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Power-sharing in Zimbabwe is dead and it is time for African governments to oust President Robert Mugabe, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said....

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Thanksgiving reflections on my incarceration in Zimbabwe

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thanksgiving is a time of reflection, and for me it always brings me back to my incarceration in Zimbabwe last year. Every day I am more thankful fo...

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Mugabe Allies Terrorize Farmers In Zimbabwe (PHOTOS)

CNN | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was a frigid June night at Pickstone Mine in Zimbabwe when 67-year-old Angela Campbell -- soaking wet, her arm broken and a gun to her head -- sign...

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Human Wave Flees Violence In Zimbabwe

New York Times | By The New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sarah Ngewerume was driven to the river by despair. She said she had seen gangs loyal to Zimbabwe's longtime president, Robert Mugabe, beating people...

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