HARARE, Zimbabwe — Reeling from the highest inflation rate in the world, barred by the government from using U.S. dollars for purchases, Zimbabw...
AP | ANGUS SHAW | Posted 07.30.2008 | Business
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe announced Wednesday that it is knocking 10 zeros off its hyper-inflated currency _ a move that turns 10 billion doll...
Merrill Markoe | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics
Bush said, "no regime should ignore the will of its own people and calls from the international community without consequences."
AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 07.25.2008 | Home
WASHINGTON — President Bush signed an executive order on Friday to expand sanctions against what he calls the "illegitimate" regime of Zimbabwe'...
AP | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business
Amid Zimbabwe's mind-boggling hyper inflation, a new 100 billion dollar bank note has more value as a novelty item on eBay than on the streets of the ...
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.
AFP | Godfrey Marawanyika | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business
Zimbabwe's inflation rate, already the world's highest, hit an astronomical 2.2 million percent Wednesday after Robert Mugabe's re-election in a one-...
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...
LA Times | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
It has come to this: Zimbabwe is about to run out of the paper to print money on. Fidelity Printers & Refiners, the state-owned company that tireless...
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.
Roderick Spencer | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
On the situation in Zimbabwe, Mandela made a deceptively simple, almost bland, statement, which has exerted great influence. He called it "A tragic failure of leadership."
Guardian | Duncan Campbell and Paul Lewis | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
A film that graphically shows how Robert Mugabe's supporters rigged Zimbabwe's election has been smuggled out of the country by a prison officer. It i...
Times Online | Catherine Philp | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
Fresh from his rigged election victory, Robert Mugabe and his military backers plan to assassinate or frame dozens of opposition MPs in an attempt to ...
Simon Jenkins | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
Economic sanctions are coward's war. Their champions can find hardly a shred of evidence in their favour; they are the last refuge of stupidity in foreign policy.
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,...
Stephen Zunes | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
Despite claims of support for the advancement of democracy, the United States continues to support other African dictatorships that are as bad as or even worse than that of Zimbabwe.
AP | ANNA JOHNSON and PAUL SCHEMM | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt — African efforts to encourage a deal between Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and his opponents showed no results Tuesday...
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.
John Feffer | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
Yes, the U.S. government has given "democracy promotion" a bad name. But progressives should not withhold support from movements in other countries fighting nonviolently against tyranny.
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...
AP | ANGUS SHAW | Posted 06.29.2008 | Home
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe's longtime ruler Robert Mugabe was sworn in as president for a sixth term Sunday after a widely discredited runoff i...
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...
236.com | 23/6: The News, But Funnier | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Zimbabwe's opposition leader has thrown up his hands, but he's not throwing in the towel. Democracy activist Morgan Tsvangirai quit his presidential b...
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AP | ANGUS SHAW | Posted 08.06.2008 | Business