Movement for Democratic Change News

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.