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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said Saturday the unity government is short-lived and he plans to regain his hold over the country he has ruled for nearly three decades.
Supporters of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe used rape to terrorize the political opposition during last year's contested elections, international human rights activists said Thursday.
President Barack Obama praised representatives of a women's organization whose members have been beaten by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's police force and face court trials for challenging Zimbabwe's government. He said their grassroots efforts could improve the African country.
The director of a U.N. food agency questioned Wednesday how world powers could commit so much money to fighting the financial crisis and not to feeding the 1 billion hungry.
Zimbabwe's prime minister says assurances South Africa will be watching persuaded him to end his boycott of his country's troubled unity Cabinet.
The United Nations' torture investigator said Wednesday he was stopped by immigration authorities as he tried to enter Zimbabwe in defiance of officials who rescinded his invitation.
Zimbabwe's foreign minister on Friday sharply criticized as "a provocation of the highest order" an attempt by the U.N. torture investigator to visit Zimbabwe and investigate alleged attacks by thugs linked to the ruling party on its opponents.
Zimbabwe's prime minister will be on the road this week asking other leaders in the region to "rescue" the unity government from which he temporarily withdrew, his spokesman said Monday.
The politician whose trial shook Zimbabwe's unity government is free on bail.
Nestle says its Zimbabwe banking is back to normal just days after newspapers reported that the government froze their accounts and ordered an audit after the company stopped buying milk from a farm owned by President Robert Mugabe's wife.
A Zimbabwean official says several top officials and cronies of President Robert Mugabe being sued for torture have been renounced by the state and will not receive legal assistance.
Nestle says it will stop buying milk from Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's wife's farm after facing worldwide boycott threats.
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe slammed the United States and Europe on Friday for what he called "filthy clandestine antics" for keeping economic sanctions clamped on his authoritarian nation, even though he now presides over a coalition government.
Riot police have prevented shareholders of one of Zimbabwe's largest companies from gathering after a judge issued an order postponing the meeting for two weeks.
The European Union said Sunday it will not remove sanctions targeting longtime President Robert Mugabe and his loyalists or resume development aid until more is done to implement a year-old power-sharing agreement and restore human rights.
President Robert Mugabe told businessmen Wednesday that their potential investments in Zimbabwe would be safe, while the finance minister announced the country is $5.7 billion in debt.
In a bid to end feuding between Zimbabwe's coalition partners, South African President Jacob Zuma met with President Robert Mugabe and other leaders Friday and appeared cautiously optimistic that their differences could be resolved.
South African President Jacob Zuma will be "more vocal" than his predecessor about bringing Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's party to task for harassing rival politicians, a South African official said Wednesday.
Zimbabwean generals known as hard-line supporters of President Robert Mugabe saluted former opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai Tuesday, a gesture welcomed as a public boost for the country's struggling coalition government.
Militants from President Robert Mugabe's party disrupted a national conference aimed at drawing up a new constitution on Monday in a setback for Zimbabwe's unity government.
President Robert Mugabe described the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs as "an idiot" after an acrimonious meeting between the two at an African summit in Libya, Zimbabwe's state media reported Monday.
Zimbabwe's troubled coalition government is in no danger of collapsing despite accusations that President Robert Mugabe's party is blocking reform, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Tuesday.
Zimbabwe's mines minister, who is on a list of officials close to President Robert Mugabe barred from the West, has been kept from attending an investment conference in London, state radio and British officials said Tuesday.
Amnesty International's director said Thursday the situation in Zimbabwe remains grim despite promises of reform and that some in President Robert Mugabe's party still regard violence as a legitimate political tool.
President Robert Mugabe's party has rejected allegations from Amnesty International about continuing human rights violations in Zimbabwe, state media reported Friday.
As the media turns the other way, Zimbabwe goes from strength to strengthIn journalism, there is a sad, but inevitable adage that bad news is good news. Though many of us profess a penchant for positive, uplifting current events, audience statistics paint a very different picture.
Mugabe defends land reforms, attacks West | World news | Chron.com - Houston ChronicleMugabe defends land reforms, attacks West ROME — 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.
Nestle to stop buying milk from Mugabe's farmNestle says it will stop buying milk from a farm owned by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's family, who seized it from white farmers under his controversial land reforms.
Mugabe secretly snatches farmsROBERT Mugabe has built a secret farming empire of land seized from at least five white-owned businesses, an investigation by Britain's Daily Telegraph has found.
Desperation stalks Zimbabwe's white farmers - CNN.comI came across this story while doing some research on the African farming industry in general and "free trade" agreements between the US and African countries. But after reading this, this little corner of Africa has got some major problems far and beyond trade agreements!
India to take up fake currency note issue at global fora - India - NEWS - The Times of IndiaWith a number of states reporting huge seizures of fake Indian currency notes (FICNs), India will soon take up the issue at global fora, like Interpol, in a big way and will also ask some European countries to keep a watch on importers of currency-standard printing paper and i …
Mugabe calls US envoy 'an idiot'Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has branded a top US envoy "an idiot" with a condescending attitude. He said that Johnnie Carson, US assistant secretary of state for African affairs, wanted to dictate what Zimbabwe could and could not do.
The UN's secretary-general: The score at half-timeTHE first secretary-general of the United Nations told his successor it was the toughest job in the world. It has since got harder.
Zimbabwe PM defends working with MugabeZimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Sunday defended his decision to enter a power-sharing government with President Robert Mugabe, a day after protesters heckled him in London.
South Africa's continental footprintJacob Zuma, who will be formally elected president of South Africa by the parliament on Wednesday, is a larger-than-life figure.
Mugabe Aides Said to Use Violence to Get Amnesty - NYTimes.comHARARE, Zimbabwe — President Robert Mugabe's top lieutenants are trying to force the political opposition into granting them amnesty for their past crimes by abducting, detaining and torturing opposition officials and activists, according to senior members of Mr.
Mugabe Aides Are Said to Use Violence to Gain AmnestyPresident Robert Mugabe's top lieutenants are trying to force the political opposition into granting them amnesty for their past crimes by abducting, detaining and torturing opposition officials and activists, according to senior members of Mr. Mugabe's party.
Villains and Victims in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe's new power-sharing government isn't ideal. Robert Mugabe remains president, despite losing last year's election. His loyalists remain in charge of the army, the Justice Ministry and other key posts that allow them to arrest and intimidate opponents.
March 28 - Opposition leader turned Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Morgan Tsvangirai denounced the country's land reform policies, saying anybody who attempted to carry out the policies of land redistribution would be arrested.
Zimbabwe 'to arrest land thieves'Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said that anyone invading farms will be arrested - in an apparent challenge to Robert Mugabe.
Zimbabwe's prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai was last night broadcast on television in a hospital bed with a neck brace on. His official car was involved in a collision near his rural home in Buhera with a truck, his wife Susan, 50, died at the crash scene.
Zimbabwe farmer attacks Mugabe's 'blatant bullying'A Zimbabwe farmer has lashed out at President Robert Mugabe after he said the country's remaining 400 white farmers will have their land seized.
Zimbabwe Opposition to Join Government - NYTimes.comJOHANNESBURG — After months of resisting intense pressure from leaders across southern Africa, Zimbabwe's opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, announced Friday that he would do as they have insisted and join a power-sharing government as prime minister with his longtime neme …
Op-Ed Columnist - Zimbabwe Is Dying - NYTimes.comIf you want to see hell on earth, go to Zimbabwe where the madman Robert Mugabe has brought the country to such a state of ruin that medical care for most of the inhabitants has all but ceased to exist.
A History of What's Wrong With ZimbabweMind-boggingly comprehensive analysis from Mahmood Mamdani. It is hard to think of a figure more reviled in the West than Robert Mugabe.
Zimbabweans detail abduction spreeFresh details of recent abductions, beatings, and forced confessions of Zimbabwe's opposition leaders and civic activists emerged Tuesday during a press conference.
Mugabe opponents: We confessed after tortureOpposition members accused of being involved in a bomb plot in Zimbabwe told a court Thursday that they were tortured into making false confessions.
A Thug By Any Other NameThe evolution of language and how the word "thug" is now viewed as "racist" by some African Americans.
Police accused of torturing jailed activists to extract false confessions of a plot against Robert MugabeLawyers for leading Zimbabwean human rights activists and political detainees abducted by the state, held incommunicado for weeks and then imprisoned in defiance of a court order have accused the police of torturing them in an attempt to extract false confessions of a plot agains …
Zimbabwean activists 'taken to high-security prison'Armed police have taken a leading Zimbabwean human rights activist and eight of her colleagues to a maximum security prison, defying a High Court order to release them.
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