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Nestle to stop buying milk from Mugabe's farm
Source: abc.net.au

Nestle 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 farms
Source: theage.com.au

ROBERT 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.

Zimbabwe army 'runs diamond mine'
Source: BBC News

Lobby group Human Rights Watch has accused Zimbabwe's army of using forced labour, including children, to mine diamonds in the east of the country.

Rights in Zimbabwe 'precarious'
Source: BBC News

Zimbabwe is still suffering "persistent and serious" human rights violations, Amnesty International says.

Zimbabwe girls trade sex for food
Source: BBC News

Growing numbers of children in Zimbabwe are turning to prostitution to survive, the charity Save the Children says.

Zimbabweans say angry ancestors are behind road accidents
Source: The L.A. Times

Traditional rituals to appease the dead have not been performed for years. Some believe that's the cause for a recent string of terrible crashes on one highway.

Zimbabwe's central bank raided private accounts to prop up ministries
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Zimbabwe's central bank governor admitted today that he took hard currency from the bank accounts of private businesses and foreign aid groups without permission, saying he was trying to keep his country's cash-strapped ministries running.

Mugabe Aides Are Said to Use Violence to Gain Amnesty
Source: The New York Times

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's party.

Zimbabwe 'to arrest land thieves'
Source: BBC News

Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said that anyone invading farms will be arrested - in an apparent challenge to Robert Mugabe.

Tsvangirai injured and wife dies in car crash
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's prime minister, survived a car crash yesterday that killed his wife, Susan, near Harare.

Zimbabwe farmer attacks Mugabe's 'blatant bullying'
Source: abc.net.au

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 'illegal gold sale bid'
Source: BBC News

Zimbabwe's Vice-President Joyce Mujuru has been accused of trying to fund a multi-million dollar gold deal in defiance of international sanctions.

Zimbabwe 'hoarding lost 'Who' episodes'
Source: digitalspy.co.uk

Zimbabwe has been accused of hoarding long-lost episodes of Doctor Who, reports The Sun. The BBC destroyed several early editions of the cult show in the 1960s and 1970s in order to make room for new programming.

Zimbabwe dollar sheds 12 zeros
Source: BBC News

Zimbabwe is revaluing its dollar again, removing twelve zeros from the currency with immediate effect.

Zimbabwe abandons its currency
Source: BBC News

Zimbabweans will be allowed to conduct business in other currencies, alongside the Zimbabwe dollar, in an effort to stem the country's runaway inflation.

Desperate Children Flee Zimbabwe, for Lives Just as Bleak
Source: The New York Times

With their nation in a prolonged sequence of crises, more unaccompanied children and women than ever are joining the rush of desperate Zimbabweans illegally crossing the frontier at the Limpopo River, according to the police, local officials and aid workers.

Hunger strike for Zimbabwe change
Source: BBC News

Archbishop Desmond Tutu is among activists in southern Africa who have launched a fast and hunger strike in solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe.

Mugabe's wife accused of attacking photographer
Source: abc.net.au

A British newspaper says one of its photographers has been assaulted by the wife of the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, in Hong Kong.

1m Zimbabweans on brink of starvation: Oxfam
Source: abc.net.au

Aid agencies in Zimbabwe are making a desperate plea for funding as the country enters its peak hunger period. The relief agency Oxfam is warning that around 1 million Zimbabweans may be left starving this month because of a lack of funding.

Zimbabwe unveils 100 trillion dollar banknote
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Zimbabwe has unveiled a 100 trillion Zimbabwe dollar banknote, worth around $33 (£22) on the black market. The country's central bank, which is struggling to keep up with hyper-inflation, also plans to introduce Z$10tn, Z$20tn and Z$50tn notes, state media reported.

Zimbabwe army eating elephant meat: wildlife campaigner
Source: abc.net.au

A wildlife campaigner in Zimbabwe says members of the army are being given elephant meat for their rations because of a shortage of beef.

Cholera sickens 30,000 in Zimbabwe: WHO
Source: sbs.com.au

More than 30,000 people in Zimbabwe have been diagnosed with cholera, as the number of those contracting the deadly disease continues to mount.

Police accused of torturing jailed activists to extract false confessions of a plot against Robert Mugabe
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Lawyers 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'
Source: abc.net.au

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.

Crikey - Robert Mugabe: The Golden Arsehat winner for 2008's most appalling person
Source: crikey.com.au

Well yes, obviously Belinda Neal was strong competition. And Troy Buswell. A lot of you wanted Andrew Bolt, George Bush, John Howard, Brendan Nelson ... the usual suspects.

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