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Archive for Category: "Zimbabwe"
Zimbabwe MP arrested for denigrating Mugabe: MDC
Zimbabwean police arrested a legislator from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party on Friday for playing a song they said denigrated President Robert Mugabe, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said.
Zimbabwe finance minister gets death threat:MDC
Zimbabwean Finance Minister Tendai Biti has received a death threat, his MDC party said on Monday. “The MDC secretary-general, Hon Tendai Biti, has received a letter with a live bullet inside, it in what the party is treating as a death threat,” it said in a statement. The MDC formed a unity government with President [...]
Zimbabwe to raise state wages, issue bond
Zimbabwe raised its budgeted 2009 spending and increased wages for state workers in a mid-year budget review on Thursday, saying it planned to issue a government bond for grain purchases.
Zimbwabé: reprise des débats sur la constitution
Les travaux de la conférence de mardi, censés accoucher d’un avant-projet de réforme de la Constitution, se sont déroulés sans incident. Les députés du MDC de Morgan Tsvangirai ont renouvelé leur appel à la tolérance et ont encouragé les délégués à transcender les clivages partisans.
Zimbabwe constitution step closer
Zimbabwe is expected to take another step towards the drafting of a new constitution. Several thousand politicians and civic leaders are to attend a Stakeholders’ Conference in Harare. After a public consultation, the new constitution will be put to a referendum, according to the country’s power-sharing agreement. Once a charter is in place Zimbabwe is [...]
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 two spoke on the sidelines of last week’s African Union meeting in Libya. The Obama [...]
Zimbabwe army ‘to go from mines’
Zimbabwe’s government has agreed to withdraw soldiers from diamond mining fields amid criticism over human rights abuses, state-run media reports. It quoted the deputy mines minister in the unity government as saying soldiers would be withdrawn “in phases”. Troops deployed to the Marange diamond fields last year after disputed polls. The army says it was [...]
Zimbabwe to re-evaluate all mining contracts
Zimbabwe will re-evaluate all mining contracts and introduce a “use it or lose it” policy for its mining industry under a proposed law, Finance Minister Tendai Biti told Reuters on Friday. The vetting of mining contracts by Zimbabwe’s unity government of President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is likely to surprise investors at [...]
IMF refuses new aid for Zimbabwe
The International Monetary Fund has told Zimbabwe that it will not provide the country with more funds until its existing $1bn debts are settled. Zimbabwe’s government estimates it will need $10bn (£6bn) of foreign aid to help rebuild its battered economy. But the IMF said that Zimbabwe would need to clear its debts and show [...]
China ‘agrees huge Zimbabwe loan’
China has agreed to give Zimbabwe a loan of $950m (£573m) to help it revive its battered economy, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said.
MDC snubs Mugabe cabinet meeting
Ministers from Zimbabwe’s ex-opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have boycotted a cabinet meeting chaired by President Robert Mugabe. The meeting, usually held on a Tuesday, was brought forward as Mr Mugabe is off to Libya for an African Union summit. When Mr Mugabe is away, MDC leader and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai chairs the [...]
Zimbabwe army ‘runs diamond mine’
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. Local villagers who do not co-operate with the military are beaten and tortured, the US-based group says. Their report also details an alleged massacre of diamond diggers last year, after the [...]
France open to cancelling Zimbabwe debt
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said on Thursday France was open to discussions with Zimbabwe about cancelling the African country’s Paris Club debt.
Bumper crop, but Zimbabwe hungry
Some three million people face hunger in Zimbabwe, despite a significant rise in food production, the UN says. Good rainfall over the past year has boosted production of the staple crop, maize, by 130% to 1.1m tonnes. But about 2.8m people will still face food shortages this year, warned the report from the Food and [...]
Zimbabwe PM says has working relationship with Mugabe
Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Tuesday he had formed a working relationship with Robert Mugabe and saw scope for the long-serving president eventually to make a dignified exit from power.
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