Thu, May 17, 2012
HARARE - Chinese diamond firm Anjin failed to remit revenue from its operations in Zimbabwe's controversial Marange fields in the first quarter of this year, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said on Thursday.
Thu, Apr 26, 2012
On Thursday, former Liberian president Charles Taylor, above, became the first former head of state convicted of crimes against humanity at The Hague. Hague war crimes court ruled former Liberian President Charles Taylor guilty of crimes in Sierra Leone. The international court opened Thursday its judgment hearing for Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor, accused of arming Sierra Leone's rebels who paid him in "blood diamonds".
Tue, Apr 17, 2012
Tomorrow will be an important day for us all as we celebrate our country’s Independence Day. It is a day that encapsulates Zimbabwe’s painful story. As a people, our independence was not a stroll in the park. We had to wage a brutal and protracted liberation struggle to end colonialism. Brave sons and daughters of this land perished in that struggle.
Wed, Mar 07, 2012
Tensions are rising between President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party and Pretoria following remarks Monday by South African Foreign Affairs Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane that elections in Zimbabwe should be held only after a new constitution and democratic reforms are put in place to ensure a free and fair poll.
Fri, Feb 03, 2012
HARARE –A South African Police forensic scientist who examined the debris of the burnt late retired Army Chief Solomon Mujuru told the court that they failed to detect the cause of the fire which gutted the General’s house because the way the debris was collected and transported to South Africa was not properly done.
Tue, Jan 31, 2012
Benin President Thomas Boni Yayi was elected the African Union Chairman Sunday, taking over the one-year post from Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, officials said.
Mon, Jan 30, 2012
Harare magistrate Walter Chikwanha on Monday dismissed an application by the family of the late army general Solomon Mujuru, who want an independent examination by a foreign based pathologist.
Mon, Jan 30, 2012
HARARE — Investigators could not find out what caused the fire that killed former Zimbabwean army chief Solomon Mujuru last year, a forensic expert said on Monday.
Sat, Jan 28, 2012
Finance Minister Tendai Biti, under police investigation as to how the controversial $500-million Zimbabwe received from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2009 was used, says the funds were spent on infrastructure projects and alleviating the chronic liquidity crisis in the financial market.
Sat, Jan 14, 2012
Zimbabwe has managed to reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission to 18 percent which helps take the country to within the recommended five percent risk levels, Press TV reports.
Mon, Nov 21, 2011
HARARE - More than a million people in Zimbabwe will require food aid between now and March 2012, a United Nations agency said on Monday, despite recent improvements in the country's grain production.
Sat, Nov 19, 2011
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam — the only member of the ousted ruling family to remain at large — was captured as he traveled with aides in a convoy in Libya's southern desert, Libyan officials said Saturday. Thunderous celebratory gunfire shook the Libyan capital as the news spread.
Sun, Aug 21, 2011
Libyan rebels have taken control of the capital Tripoli's Green Square, as the end of Colonel Gaddafi's regime appears to draw ever closer reports Sky News.
Mon, Aug 15, 2011
YOU JUST CAN'T STOP HIM: Zimbabwe's left arm-seamer Brian Vitori (L) celebrates after removing Bangladesh skipper Shakib Al Hasan in the second ODI at Harare Sports Club yesterday. Vitori's second-successive five-wicket haul helped the hosts to win the match by seven wicket
Sun, May 22, 2011
Zimbabwe’s 87-year-old president has scoffed at speculation over his health as “misplaced”, adding that he and his wife are fitness enthusiasts.
Tue, May 03, 2011
Intense: President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, alongside other Security staff, watch the mission unfold at the White House
Tue, Apr 05, 2011
Mr Zuma was heavily criticised in Zimbabwe’s state media last weekend. "Bemused people have often asked: how does the disaster- prone Zuma manage to run Africa’s biggest economy?" a Sunday Mail editorial asked. "The answer is really simple: he does not run anything, not even a tuck shop in Soweto.
Thu, Mar 31, 2011
Hundreds of skeletons found in a mine shaft have brought a macabre thrust to election campaigning in Zimbabwe - but Pathologists say visual evidence may point to more recent killings.
Tue, Mar 29, 2011
It all seems Jonathan Moyo and Simon khaya Moyo might have voted for the wrong Moyo after all as at least 4 Zanu PF Mps voted for the MDC candidate in the speaker vote.
Tue, Mar 22, 2011
HARARE – China yesterday unveiled nearly $700 million lending to Zimbabwe, in the biggest package of loans from communist Beijing to this land locked but mineral rich southern African state, but demanded that Harare stay away from taking local Chinese businesses under its controversial indigenisation drive.
Sun, Mar 06, 2011
As anxiety grows about President Robert Mugabe's health, divisions in Zanu-PF have worsened, with the two main camps angling to succeed the veteran leader intensifying their internal battle for control of the party.
Wed, Feb 23, 2011
For four decades, Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi has been a ruthless despot, a violently erratic terrorist precursor to Al Qaeda, and a pariah. Now the man who bankrolled Palestinian and other terrorist groups and whose agents infamously bombed a Pan Am passenger jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, and a French UTA jet over the Sahara seems determined to add “war criminal” to the list.
Tue, Feb 22, 2011
Protester death toll reported to be in the hundreds as Libyan officials, diplomats and soldiers disown Gadhafi's regime.
Thu, Jan 13, 2011
(Pictured: Tomana the AG another Mugabe side-kick) Party hardliners led by ZANU-PF Chairman Simon Khaya Moyo have called for Prime Minister Tsvangirai’s prosecution for treason for allegedly conspiring with Washington to unseat President Mugabe
Sun, Dec 12, 2010
Abidjan - From a hotel room just big enough to hold a bed and a desk, the man considered the legitimate president of Ivory Coast is trying to govern a troubled nation whose sitting president refuses to leave.
Thu, Dec 02, 2010
Calestous Juma, a development scientist, says Africa can turn around by improving roads and transportation, training engineers and using irrigation, solar energy and more technology.
Fri, Nov 19, 2010
Roy Bennett, a Zimbabwean politician who has come under repeated attack from President Robert Mugabe, said the long-time leader's rule is coming to an end.
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
The four-year-old ban on sending more than 10,000 failed asylum seekers back to Zimbabwe is to be lifted, the immigration minister, Damian Green, has announced.
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
Harare, Zimbabwe -- South African President Jacob Zuma has sent a delegation to neighboring Zimbabwe to rescue what appears to be a cracking power-sharing government formed last year by President Robert Mugabe and his former political foe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
Wed, Oct 13, 2010
BRUSSELS — The European Union on Wednesday expressed "great concern" over President Robert Mugabe's unilateral appointment of new Zimbabwe ambassadors to the bloc as well as to other institutions and capitals.
Sun, Oct 10, 2010
Harare, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's top mining official said Sunday there were reports of new diamond discoveries in several parts of the country. Mines Minister Obert Mpofu said there were reports of new diamond discoveries in three other provinces in the country, but did not give details, merely saying government was moving on the sites to secure them and prospect.
Tue, Sep 28, 2010
Johannesburg - South Africa will press again this week for the European Union to lift targeted sanctions against Zimbabwe, the country's foreign affairs spokesperson Saul Kgomotso Molobi said.
Sat, Sep 25, 2010
Juliet Mashoko, a 61 year old grand mother, and victim of political violence during the 2008 Zimbabwe elections
Thu, Sep 16, 2010
A woman who admitted taking part in savage evictions of white farmers from their homes in Zimbabwe lost her bid for asylum after a High Court judge accused her of ‘crimes against humanity.’
Thu, Sep 16, 2010
While Zimbabwe is making "tangible" progress, the "madness" still persists, its prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Thursday.
Wed, Sep 15, 2010
Brussels, Belgium - Zimbabwe will become the largest producer of diamond in the world by 2013, with an expected volume of 40 million carats per year, to be produced from the rich deposits in Marange, the former director of the Diamond High Council (HRD), Filip Van Laere, revealed on his return from a visit to Zimbabwe.
Tue, Sep 14, 2010
HARARE - A survey commissioned by NewsDay on the voting intentions of Zimbabweans has revealed MDC-T will win the next general election while Zanu PF will come second and the revived Zapu a distant third, but 40% of the electorate might not vote.
Fri, Sep 10, 2010
Striking pilots at Air Zimbabwe have been issued with a 24-hour ultimatum to return to work or face dismissal, says state media.
Wed, Sep 08, 2010
HARARE - Zimbabwe is seeking 3.25 billion rand in an overdraft and credit facility from South Africa, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said on Wednesday, as the country battles to reverse the effects of a decade-long political and economic crisis.
Thu, Aug 26, 2010
THE decision to appoint provincial governors simultaneously with the lifting of the illegal economic sanctions was reached by all three principals to the Global Political Agreement; Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara said yesterday.
Thu, Aug 05, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Foreign Office said a reported incident at Zimbabwe's Harare Airport on Thursday was a drill and no aircraft had been involved in an accident.
Fri, Jul 30, 2010
Zimbabwe Prime Minister President Morgan Tsvangirai will on Saturday present an overview of the performance of the inclusive government to party supporters in the mining town of Hwange, more than 300 km northwest of Zimbabwe's second largest city of Bulawayo. ( File Picture: Tsvangirai draws big crowds of supporters at MDC rallies)
Wed, Jul 21, 2010
JOHANNESBURG — A veterans' group says the last white commander of forces that opposed the guerrilla armies that swept Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to power has died.
Fri, Jul 16, 2010
APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) A southern African court on Friday ruled in favour of two white Zimbabwean farmers contesting eviction orders by the government and referred the dispute over Zimbabwe’s controversial land reform programme to next month’s summit of regional leaders to be held in Namibia.
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
Negotiators from the Kimberley Process reached a deal with the Zimbabwe government that will let the country export diamonds from the Marange region while agreeing to a strict regime of monitoring and supervision.
Tue, Jul 06, 2010
APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) Zimbabwean police on Tuesday said that two foreigners arrested at the South African border in June were not terrorists, and they accused the media of jumping to conclusions about the identity of the duo and the nature of their mission.
Fri, Jun 25, 2010
JOHANNESBURG — An international undertaking to prevent the trade in diamonds that fuel conflict ended in a stalemate Thursday over whether to approve Zimbabwe’s export of millions of carats of newly-mined diamonds, but the nation threatened to sell the stones on its own anyway.
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