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Posted to the web 15 May 2008 Tichaona Sibanda The brutal murder of MDC activist Beta Chokururama in Murehwa on Sunday and the abduction of Tonderai Ndira from Mabvuku on Wednesday highlight the country's spiralling crisis of political killings and kidnappings. Chokururama was abducted with three...
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe has introduced a new half-a-billion dollar bank note in a bid to tackle cash shortages fed by rampant inflation, the central bank said on Thursday. "Introducing the new 500,000,000 bearer cheque for your convenience," read a Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe full-page advert in the...
Harare - The Zimbabwean government on Thursday defended a decision by the country's electoral commission to delay a second round presidential poll by more than two months, saying it was acting within the law. "It is lawful and ZEC (Zimbabwe Electoral Commission) has the authority to extend any...
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's run-off presidential election due this month was put off on Wednesday until as late as July, prompting the opposition to say President Robert Mugabe was trying to buy time for a crackdown. (REUTERS/Howard Burditt/Files) Zimbabweans voted on March 29, but results of...
The United States has protested to the Zimbabwean government over harassment of the American ambassador and other diplomats in Harare, State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said Wednesday. The U.S. envoy and other diplomats were detained for an hour Tuesday at a police roadblock after they...
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, speaks during a radio interview at the studios in Johannesburg in this April 17, 2008 file photo. (REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/Files) HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will return to his country and start a...
Posted to the web 14 May 2008 THE GOVERNMENT has accused Western ambassadors on Wednesday of breaching Zimbabwe's laws and undermining President Robert Mugabe's government by "cooking up" evidence of political violence. U.S. ambassador James McGee and diplomats from Britain, the European Union,...
Posted to the web 14 May 2008 Tichaona Sibanda The regime in Harare announced on Wednesday the country's presidential election run-off would now take place between within 90 days from the day the results were announced on May 2. The second round poll, scheduled to have been held on the 23rd May,...
Interview With Dennis Nikisi - Download (MP3) Interview With Dennis Nikisi - Listen (MP3) Amid critical shortages of foodstuffs and other essential goods in Zimbabwe markets, Harare has suspended import duties on basic commodities for three months. Products which can now be imported free of...
BBC NEWS | Africa | Making big money in Zimbabwe Making big money in Zimbabwe By Farai Sevenzo Harare How do people make money in Zimbabwe - a country believed to have the highest inflation in the world - Frontier economy The lack of international traders, the scarcity of foreign currency to...
