Zimbabwe News

Australian politicians and Zimbabweans have called for the deportation of key Mugabe surrogate Reason Wafawarova a former director of Zimbabwe's youth Militia who has been residing in Australia for nearly five ...

Zimbabwe's unresolved political crisis loomed large Wednesday as African leaders gathered in Lusaka, Zambia, for the funeral of President Levy Mwanawasa, who died on August 19 in Paris at the age of 59 after ...

Zimbabwe on Friday lifted an almost three-month ban on the work of aid groups in the country, which the government had imposed because it said some of the groups had supported the opposition to President Robert ...

HARARE, 4 September 2008 - The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists , which represents journalists in the country, has launched a programme to provide life-prolonging antiretroviral drugs to its HIV-positive members.

Swaziland and its king are throwing a joint 40th birthday bash this weekend, but the mood is far from celebratory in this small southern African land of paupers and princes, mud huts and palaces.

A shooting spree in Washington State left six dead and two wounded with the suspected gunman surrendering to police after a car chase, local media reported.

T, which pressured South African President Thabo Mbeki to reconvene talks, has demanded that Cabinet be co-chaired by President Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, open fresh negotiations on all issues that had been ...

During the nearly three months that humanitarian agencies in Zimbabwe were banned from operating by President Robert Mugabe's government, people desperate for food foraged for wild fruits to survive, in some ...

"This new role means setting up systems, transformation of the Coalition from just a coordinator of the women's organisation to playing a pivotal role.

By Cris Chinaka

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has said power-sharing negotiations have broken down and are unlikely to resume soon, South Africa's Talk Radio 702 reported on Wednesday.

The talks have stalled over how executive power should be shared by President Robert Mugabe and Tsvangirai, who refused to sign an agreement that would have made him prime minister.

Tsvangirai has protested against a proposed deal, saying it did not give him enough executive powers in government.

Thulasizwe Simelane, Lusaka The late Zambian President, Levy Mwanawasa, will be buried in the capital Lusaka tomorrow.

Demand for land and interest in agriculture as a business venture among women has increased over the years with more inquiring on how to access land under the Land Reform Programme, the president of the Women ...

Zimbabwe lifted an almost three-month-old ban on the work of aid groups on Friday.

Not all Zimbabwean aid agencies can get back to work in the impoverished country, despite a government announcement that a ban had been lifted, a spokesperson for an umbrella organisation said on Monday.

Units of Mugabe's shock troops are moving into the Matobo constituency in Zimbabwe's Matabeleland South this week, threatening a new wave of intimidation, beating and death.

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Seed houses and their agencies are not selling maize seed at this year's edition of the Harare Agricultural Show, a situation that has severely inconvenienced farmers who usually buy seed at the annual ...

Zimbabwe's rival parties have returned home from talks in South Africa, officials said yesterday, with no sign of a power-sharing deal to resolve the country's bitter political crisis.

The tragic after effects of a violent ZANU PF campaign continue to be felt in the country with the death of 2 more MDC activists who succumbed to their injuries this week.

The advice of doctors to Zimbabweans is, don't get sick. If you do, don't count on hospitals _ they're short of drugs and functioning equipment.

As the economy collapses, the laboratory at a main 1,000-bed hospital has virtually shut down. X-ray materials, injectable antibiotics and anticonvulsants have run out.

Emergency resuscitation equipment is out of action. Patients needing casts for broken bones need to bring their own plaster. In a country with one of the world's worst AIDS epidemics, medical staff lack protective gloves.