Mugabe News

Marondera - Thousands turned out on Sunday to wish happy birthday to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, who threw 90 balloons into the air to mark his 90th year and continuing hold on power.Fresh off the plane from Singapore, where the nonogenarian president had ...

Harare - Zimbabwe President and Africa's oldest leader Robert Mugabe marked his 90th birthday receiving medical treatment in Singapore Friday, reigniting rumours that the man who has ruled his country since independence could be in ill health.While Mugabe's aid...

Harare - I cannot understand why Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai keeps showing up election after election. If I were him I would just wait for old man Robert Mugabe to pass away peacefully and then challenge his successor in an election.

Harare - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, who has ruled for some 33 years, may stay in power for another decade if re-elected according to the country’s new draft constitution.

Harare - According to a report released Monday, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, his appointees, international gem dealers and criminals have enriched themselves in "the biggest plunder of diamonds since Cecil Rhodes," according to an AP report.

Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, 88, is fighting for his life in a Singapore hospital after handing over power to Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Harare - Air Zimbabwe flew profitably through 23 years of United Nations imposed sanctions against what was then Rhodesia. It carried on without any halt after nationalist guerrillas shot down two of its Viscounts in the late 1970’s.

Bulawayo - Kenyan Prime Minister, Raila Odinga told Movement for Democratic congress not to vote unless the elections were free and fair.

The Daily News, Zimbabwe's largest selling newspaper that was banned eight years ago for criticising President Robert Mugabe, has hit the stands again.

Harare - Police spokesman accuses meeting organisers of showing videos of recent unrest in Tunisia and Egypt “to motivate people to subvert a constitutionally elected government.”

While giving a speech during his sister's funeral, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe said Western nations that are interfering in his country's issues should "go to hell."

A report released by AIDS-Free World on Thursday said that rape by Mugabe supporters terrorized opponents during Zimbabwe's 2008 election. Many who were opposed to Mugabe lost their lives during the election in politically motivated violence.

America was discovered and initially populated by colonialists. It's constitution was written by colonialists. In almost all the cases I can recall around the world colonialists were white, Christian, Western Europeans.

The turmoil in Zimbabwe is far from over, and the harassment of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party continues unabated.

South Africans have reacted in furor after media reported that Nestlé is buying milk from dairy farms that were seized from white farmers between 2002 and 2004 and are now owned by president Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace.

Since Robert Mugabe became President of Zimbabwe, the economy has been on a heavy decline. Zimbabweans are buying bread with billions of Zimbabwe Dollars, violent is rampant and the government is corrupt. What's next?

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was injured and his wife killed in a car accident Friday. Movement for Democratic Change spokesman Nelson Chamisa said Tsvangirai was taken to hospital in non-critical condition.

The country of Zimbabwe is still faced with the cholera crisis which threatens its people. Despite the humanitarian crisis, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is holding a $250K birthday bash.

Roy Bennett, treasurer of Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), missed getting sworn in as the country's deputy agriculture minister last Friday.He is in the Mutare police cells, facing charges which change every day.

The UK embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe is offering free travel assistance to Britain, accommodation, welfare and health support for frail, elderly Britons in Zimbabwe, German news agency Deutsche Presse Agentur reports. They would fly out within 3 months.

A vigil group is surrounding the Mutare police station in Zimbabwe where the country's newly-appointed deputy agriculture minister Roy Bennett is held since his shock arrest on Friday. Bennett was arrested just when Morgan Tshvangirai was sworn in.

Zimbabwean President swore in opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai as Prime Minister in a coalition government. Mugabe delayed this ceremony for two months.

The arrest on Friday of Zimbabwe's new deputy-agriculture Minister, the white farmer Roy Bennett, has caused widespread anger in the town of Mutare, where he is denied food by the police, said Mutare mayor Brian James. A crowd outside demands his release.

In an unprecedented outburst of anger by the usually so courteous South African Zulu statesman Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, he called African National Congress Youth League Julius Malema an "ill-bred brat' whose bad behaviour was moreover, 'un-African'.

Zimbabwe is proving to become one of the first major international challenges for United States President Barack Obama. So far, Zimbabwe is still dealing with the cholera outbreak.

IRIN news reports from Mutare in Zimbabwe that the vast Chiadzwa diamond fields have been taken over by the military -and they now force Marange villagers to dig out the tiny diamonds at gunpoint. Dealers warn Zimbabwe is now producing blood-diamonds.

A British photographer based in Hong Kong has said that the wife of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe assaulted him last week after he tried to take pictures of her near a luxury hotel in Hong Kong.

Even in January of 2009, the chaos in Zimbabwe continues. Robert Mugabe is still the President of Zimbabwe. There is little to no progress being made in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe's central bank will introduce a 100 trillion Zimbabwe dollar banknote, worth about $33 on the black market, to try to ease desperate cash shortages, according to the South African state broadcaster. This note now barely buys one loaf of bread.

Zimbabwe is in 'a slow genocide' . This was the warning issued today by bishop Paul Verryn, minister of the central Methodist Church in Johannesburg. He has turned the church into a place of refuge for desperate Zimbabweans.