WASHINGTON — President Bush signed an executive order on Friday to expand sanctions against what he calls the "illegitimate" regime of Zimbabwe'...
Alan Miller | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
The US and Europe's calls to intervene in Zimbabwe has far more to do with attempting to rehabilitate some sense of "good vs evil" than with empowering ordinary people to take control of their own lives.
CNN | Posted 07.15.2008 | Home
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...
Joe Lauria | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics
The vetoed sanctions resolution against Zimbabwe at the Security Council has exposed international tensions that divide the West from Africa, Russia from the West and the US from South Africa.
Charlie Rose | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
I recently spoke with four people who know Zimbabwe, which has been gripped in a power struggle. 
AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The U.S. pressed fellow U.N. Security Council members Wednesday to impose sanctions to push for change in Zimbabwe,...
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
The opposition to the government of Mugabe just called for the African nations to send peacekeepers to Zimbabwe. Given that there is no peace there, the troops are in effect called to impose one.
AP | ANNA JOHNSON and PAUL SCHEMM | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt — Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe entered an African summit accompanied by the meeting's host Monday, a sign that African...
Times of London | Christina Lamb | Posted 06.28.2008 | Home
A baby boy had both legs broken by supporters of President Robert Mugabe to punish his father for being an opposition councillor in Zimbabwe. Blessin...
AP | ANGUS SHAW | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Roaming bands of government supporters heckled, harassed or threatened people into voting in a runoff election Friday in whic...
Simon Jenkins | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
Though Mugabe is hardly the worst dictator in the world, he is regarded as "our" dictator and therefore our business. The public asks "what is to be done about him?" Prudence tells us please to shut up.
AP | ANGUS SHAW | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
HARARE, Zimbabwe — President Robert Mugabe refused Tuesday to give into pressure from Africa and the West, saying the world can "shout as loud a...
Michael Goldfarb | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
What I am asking is whether Barack Obama will use his rapidly growing international credibility and speak out against the cruelties perpetrated by Mugabe and his henchman.
London Times | Jan Raath | Posted 06.19.2008 | Home
The murderous violence being driven by President Robert Mugabe's militias reached new levels today with the killing and mutilation of four young men, ...
Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
The state-backed violence has reached a pinnacle in rural areas. Mugabe and his allies think the rural vote will decide the octogenarian's grip on power.
AP | CELEAN JACOBSON | Posted 04.24.2008 | Home
PRETORIA, South Africa — The top U.S. envoy to Africa said Thursday that Zimbabwe's opposition leader won the nation's disputed presidential ele...
AP | ANGUS SHAW | Posted 04.23.2008 | Home
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe's ruling party floated a proposal Wednesday for forming a government of national unity led by President Robert Mugab...
Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
If Mugabe is truly going to fall, there needs to be quick and prolonged action.
AP | ANGUS SHAW | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Intruders ransacked offices of the main opposition party and police detained foreign journalists Thursday in an ominous sign ...
Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics
It has been over 48 hours since the polling sites have closed and most people in Zimbabwe could care less which candidate wins, as long as it is not President Robert Mugabe.
The Guardian | Chris McGreal | Posted 03.30.2008 | Home
Robert Mugabe was desperately attempting to cling to power tonight despite his clear defeat in Zimbabwe's presidential election by blocking the electo...
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 03.30.2008 | Politics
JERUSALEM — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday branded Zimbabwe's president a "disgrace" to his people and to Africa, and expressed c...
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AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 07.25.2008 | Home