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6 hrs ago | Independent Online

Zimbabwe may return land to SA farmers

By Kenneth Chikanga South African farmers who lost land under Zimbabwe's controversial land acquisition policy could get some of their land back as soon as President Robert Mugabe's government has finished a land audit of the land redistribution exercise.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Democratic Alliance (South Africa), Agriculture, Science

Sun Nov 22, 2009

KVUE

Zimbabwe women, receiving rights award, speak out

After the beatings by President Robert Mugabe's policemen, the overcrowded, lice-ridden jail cells, the degradation of nightly strip-searches, Jenni Williams and Magondonga Mahlangu still cling to hope for Zimbabwe.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Activism, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

SW Radio Africa

Tano: Zim problem will persist as long as Mugabe is on the scene

The country continues to go through traumatic experiences and shameful happenings, such as the unnecessary attack on Father Wolfgang Thamm last week.

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Related Topix: Zimbabwe, Africa, World News

AllAfrica.com

Zimbabwe: Weapons Theft Stokes Fears of Instability

The recent "suicide" of a senior army officer in the wake of a break-in at a military armoury in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, is sowing fears that the missing guns may be used to fuel instability.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Suicide, Movement for Democratic Change (Zimbabwe)

Mail & Guardian

Zim Parliament passes Bill to reform central bank

Zimbabwe's lower house of Parliament on Wednesday passed a Bill to reform central bank operations that will reduce the powers of its governor, blamed by critics for the country's economic crisis.

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Related Topix: Zimbabwe, Africa, World News

Sat Nov 21, 2009

This is Zimbabwe

Congratulations! WOZA to get the Kennedy award

Via The Washington Times :A Her hair tightly woven into an African-style braid, Jenni Williams raises her arm in the air as she asks the crowd at a popular Washington cafe to chant "the healing wind of WOZA." The phrase has been repeated over and over since 2002 by women protesting against the government on the streets of Bulawayo, the ...

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Activism, Famine, Natural Disasters

BBC

Chavez hails 'Carlos the Jackal'

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has defended jailed killer "Carlos the Jackal" and several world leaders he says are wrongly considered "bad guys". In a speech to international socialist politicians, Mr Chavez said "Carlos", a Venezuelan, was not a terrorist but a key "revolutionary fighter". He is serving a life sentence in France for murders ...

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Related Topix: Hugo Chavez, Terrorism, World News, Zimbabwe, Africa

Pan-African News Wire

The Casablanca Connection

The Casablanca connection Courtesy of the Zimbabwe Herald IN 1978 Abel Muzorewa and Ndabaningi Sithole signed an agreement with Ian Smith to extirpate on the people of this land a mongrel offspring called Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. Muzorewa was without political guile and for that reason he thought he could convince independence-hungry Zimbabweans that his ...

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Morocco,

Fri Nov 20, 2009

AllAfrica.com

Zimbabwe: Revitalise Role of Parly

ONE of the key roles of Parliament, according to the Constitution of Zimbabwe, is that of making laws for the peace, order and good of the country.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Movement for Democratic Change (Zimbabwe)

SW Radio Africa

Weekend GPA talks planned

A top official from the mainstream MDC on Thursday said there were doubts Robert Mugabe would implement the Global Political Agreement, even if party negotiators manage to strike a deal.

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Zimbabwe Online

Germany protests soldiers' attack on priest

The German embassy has sent a protest note to the Zimbabwean government after armed soldiers at a military barracks northwest of Harare harassed and beat up a German Jesuit priest.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa,

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Independent Online

Lawyers accuse Harare police of court stunt

By MacDonald Dzirutwe Harare - Lawyers for senior MDC official Roy Bennett on Thursday accused Zimbabwe's police of parading in court weapons not related to his terrorism trial in a bid to whip up public sentiment against him.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Movement for Democratic Change (Zimbabwe)

Global Post

Mugabe at UN food summit, as Zimbabwe goes hungry

There were wry smiles at many Zimbabwean breakfast tables this week when it was announced in the government press that President Robert Mugabe is attending the Rome summit of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Agriculture, Science,

MiamiHerald.com - Miami & Ft. Lauderd...

Tourists return to Zimbabwe as economy recovers

Investigators for the world's diamond control body say the gems were mined by virtual slaves who had been told to dig or die, and were smuggled out by soldiers who rape and beat civilians.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, South America, Venezuela

Independent Online

Harare bank reform bill passed

Harare - Zimbabwe's lower house of parliament on Wednesday passed a bill to reform central bank operations that will reduce the powers of its governor, blamed by critics for the country's economic crisis.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Sunday Times

Ghosts, infants on Zimbabwe's voter's roll

A Zimbabwean MP shocked parliament when he produced evidence that the voter's roll used in last year's elections had names of hundreds of dead people who had been registered to vote.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Movement for Democratic Change (Zimbabwe)

The Courier Mail

Ireland must beware Pocock

THE young gun Wallabies flanker who lived that tag at just 12 with a loaded shotgun beside his bed is ready to produce the biggest Test of his life in Dublin tomorrow morning.

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Related Topix: Zimbabwe, Africa, World News

National Jeweler

Leber outraged over KP's decision on Zimbabwe

Leber Jeweler Inc., a third-generation, family-owned business wholly dedicated to socially responsible jewelry, is expressing outrage over the decision by the Kimberley Process governing body to allow Zimbabwe to remain a member in good standing, despite alleged human rights violations directly tied to the country's diamond mining industry.

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Related Topix: Zimbabwe, Africa, World News

Tue Nov 17, 2009

AllAfrica.com

Zimbabwe: President Blasts West's Subsidies

RICH countries' agricultural subsidies and denial of market access to produce from developing countries were partly to blame for low crop production in developing nations, President Mugabe has said.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, World News, Zimbabwe, Africa

KNDU

Mugabe defends land reforms, attacks West

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe used the U.N. summit on world hunger Tuesday to lash out at the West and defend land reforms blamed for plunging his people into starvation.

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Related Topix: Zimbabwe, Africa, World News, Yakima, WA

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