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13 hrs ago | Ottawa Citizen

British and U.S. diplomats detained in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean police detained U.S. and British diplomats for several hours on Thursday, slashing the tires of their cars after they visited victims of political violence ahead of a presidential vote, the U.S. embassy said.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa

21 hrs ago | Times Online

Brown backs Zimbabwe's return to the Commonwealth fold

Britain is behind plans to bring Zimbabwe back into the Commonwealth in two years.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Robert Mugabe, South Africa

Yesterday | Mail & Guardian

Crunch time for Zim talks

Zimbabwe's feuding parties will meet over the weekend to thrash out a compromise, with the first deadline imposed by the region to resolve the remaining issues likely to be missed.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Robert Mugabe

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Independent Online

SA to intervene as Zim leaders fail to meet

By Stanley Gama President Jacob Zuma is preparing to intervene urgently in Zimbabwe as his advisers express impatience with Zimbabwean leaders for failing to meet to resolve their differences.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Travel, Zimbabwe Travel, South Africa

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Independent Online

Soldier jailed for arms theft

Harare - A Zimbabwean soldier has been sent to jail for an effective 12 years for breaking into a military armoury and stealing 20 automatic rifles, the state-controlled Sunday Mail said.

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Sat Nov 21, 2009

AllAfrica.com

Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF, MDC in Fresh Attempt to Mend Ties

Fresh negotiations to deal with the so-called outstanding issues in the unity government are expected to begin in earnest this weekend nearly two weeks after the Southern African Development Community Troika directed at its meeting in Mozambique that Zimbabwe resolves its niggling issues within 30 days.

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

Financial Gazette

Revitalise role of Parly

FINANCIAL GAZETTE 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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SABC News

Tsvangirai to discuss Zimbabwe crisis with Gaddafi

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai left today for North Africa, where analysts said he would meet Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to maintain political pressure on President Robert Mugabe to honour their power-sharing accord.

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

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, Robert Mugabe

Wed Nov 18, 2009

The Independent

Mugabe opponent forced to seek safety in London

A leading Zimbabwean opposition MP has sought sanctuary in London after three of his colleagues were tortured by police in Harare last week.

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Tue Nov 17, 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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The Mercury

Bennett trial - judge to stay

Harare - The High Court judge in Zimbabwean politician Roy Bennett's terrorism trial refused to step aside on Monday after the defence said it feared he might be biased against the deputy agriculture minister-designate. Bennett, 52, is on trial for allegedly plotting to overthrow President Robert Mugabe's government in 2006.

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Mon Nov 16, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

Mwana Africa has dug deep to bring mining back from the brink

If you drive a Toyota, the body is mostly likely fortified by a rare form of metal from the Bindura Nickel plant here in the ancient and magical hills of Eastern Zimbabwe.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa

The Economist

Regional diplomacy and Zimbabwe: When patience finally runs out

Is Mugabe wilting at last? AT LAST the Southern African Development Community , an influential club of 15 countries that has overseen the regional diplomacy intended to solve Zimbabwe's troubles, is showing signs that it may be prepared to squeeze President Robert Mugabe a bit harder.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, South Africa, Robert Mugabe, Mozambique

Sun Nov 15, 2009

AllAfrica.com

Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF, MDC Formations Jammed in the Inclusive Govt?

DESPITE the deep-seated mistrust among the three main political parties constituting the inclusive government, it is becoming increasingly clear that ZANU-PF and the two formations of the Movement for Democratic Change have no way out of this marriage of convenience until the next elections.

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Sat Nov 14, 2009

Mail & Guardian

Bennett evidence 'all fiction'

With days to go before the expiry of the Southern African Development Community's 15-day deadline for Zimbabwe's coalition partners to end their feuding, a new battlefront opened this week in the country's courts and Parliament.

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Fri Nov 13, 2009

Independent Online

Zim union boss freed

The head of Zimbabwe's national labour movement, detained for four days for holding an "illegal meeting", has been freed after a magistrate told the police that they have no right to interfere with union business.

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BBC News

Zimbabwe 'torture' witness allowed

Zimbabwe's High Court has said a former arms dealer can appear as a prosecution witness in the trial of Roy Bennett, a senior aide to PM Morgan Tsvangirai.

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Thu Nov 12, 2009

Mail & Guardian

Tsvangirai attends Cabinet after ending boycott

Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and ministers from his party attended a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday after recently ending a three-week boycott of the country's fragile unity government.

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Related Topix: Zimbabwe, Africa, World News, Robert Mugabe

AllAfrica.com

Zimbabwe: Farm Labour Shortage Threatens Food Production

An acute shortage of labourers on Zimbabwe's newly resettled farms, combined with the farmers' inability to raise loans from financial institutions to purchase agricultural inputs, and money owed to them by the Grain Marketing Board , do not bode well for food insecurity.

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

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