Zimbabwe News
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Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, urged white farmers to cede land to black farmers. He spoke at a rally with Zanu-PF Wednesday.
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A top Zimbabwe official shocked the western world by calling it out on what he argued was a ploy to stunt the nation's growth. His solution? Zimbabweans should stop using condoms.
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In a leftist move some have called phantoms of Zimbabwe, the South African ANC government has proposed a plan to expropriate half of every commercial farm and handing it over to farm workers.
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Former Barclays chief Bob Diamond will help Zimbabwe tap much-needed international investment through a 150 million eurobond, the country's finance minister said Wednesday.
In the Media
by AFP
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The African Export-Import Bank on Saturday announced a $100 million (72 million euro) loan to Zimbabwe's banking sector to ease a credit crunch that has deepened the country's economic woes."It is a well-known fact that the Zimbabwean banking sector an...
In the Media
by AFP
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Digital Journal has been following closely events surrounding the Tokwe Mukorsi dam in the Masvingo Province of Zimbabwe.
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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 ...
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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...
In the Media
by AFP
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Former U.S. Congressman Mel Reynolds was arrested in Zimbabwe, at the Bronte Garden Hotel in the capital city of Harare, on suspicion of pornography possession and an alleged immigration offense. In Zimbabwe, possession of pornography is illegal.
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A new dam being built on the Tokwe river in the Masvingo area of Zimbabwe is close to bursting as water from heavy rains is finding its way through gaps in the uncompleted dam wall.
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The land-locked and very warm African country of Zimbabwe may not be the first place that springs to mind when you think of the Winter Olympics, but one young man is about to show that sport of all kinds is an important feature of Zimbabwean life.
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Poachers in Zimbabwe have poisoned to death more than 300 elephants and many other animals in the southern African nation's largest national park.
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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.
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The Chinese government has agreed to provide Zimbabwe with a $36 million loan to fund various initiatives in the east African country.
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After more than a week in jail and an ongoing legal battle, the award winning Zimbabwean Human Rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa was finally released on bail today.
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Zimbabwe human rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa was arrested on Sunday March 17 in the capital Harare while endeavouring to help four clients. She has been in jail ever since despite a High Court ruling.
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During all the pomp of the inaugural mass for Pope Francis, one face in the VIP section caused a stir. Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, has been banned from visiting any EU countries since 2002 but Pope Francis went so far as to shake his hand.
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Jack Maseko, a 28-year-old man from Zimbabwe was recently mugged by three men in South Africa, wanting nothing but his cell phone and his dreadlocks.
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After paying government salaries last week, Zimbabwe has only $217 in its bank account. Finance Minister Tendai Biti says government finances are in a "paralysis state."
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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.
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Political correctness may be the reason that the murder of white South African farmers barely hits the headlines. One farmer declared "It's politically correct to kill whites these days."
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In a case of get ready, get set, flush, home owners in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe have been asked to flush their toilets at a specific time.
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Knickers are being nicked in the Gokwe District town of Njelele. The perpetrator(s) of the crime has led several women to find themselves awaking in the nude.
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Due to a paucity of diamond inflows and revenues, Zimbabwe Finance Minister Tendai Biti announced that the 2012 federal budget will consist of spending cuts by 10 percent as well as a jump in tax rates.
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Harare City Council approved the construction of a $100 million shopping mall. Augur Investments and McCormick Property Development are planning the exquisite Mall of Zimbabwe in Borrowdale, just opposite of the Harare race course.
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About 44 male Zimbabwe Members of Parliament have voluntarily signed onto a campaign to get circumcised in an effort to battle HIV/AIDS. Dozens more of deputies and parliamentary staff underwent HIV tests.
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Zimbabwe's deputy mine minister told parliament last week that an army firm maintains a 40 percent stake in one of the most lucrative diamond mines in the country, Anjin mining farm, a joint venture with the Chinese.
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Following a meeting with a United Nations human rights leader, Zimbabwe Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa confirmed that he denied the allegations of state-sponsored violence and clarified that homosexuality is a criminal offence.
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Speaking at a public lecture presenting "Outlook of China’s Economy and Sino-Zimbabwe Relations," China's Ambassador to Zimbabwe Xin Shunkang said trade between the two nations has doubled to $800 million since 2010.
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, 88, is fighting for his life in a Singapore hospital after handing over power to Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa.
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Zimbabwe Image
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A woman stands outside of her temporary home and dried up maize crop in Epworth, in Harare, Zimbabwe
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Unitar Unosat
Satellite image of the flooded area by Unitar UNOSAT
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe
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The city of Harare, capital of Zimbabwe
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Kim Wolhuter
Zimbabwe’s Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve
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Victoria Falls on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border. Looking at this image and accompanying natural sounds could be key to reducing pain in cancer patients during treatment.
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Rhys Jones
Kariba dam wall photographed from the Zimbabwean side
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Map showing Masvingo Province of Zimbabwe
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Pan MacMillan / Picador
Invitation: Peter Godwin and Roy Bennett in conversation about recent developments in Zimbabwe. Thursday, 18th November, 2010 @ 6PM, Wits University, Johannesburg, SA. Please RSVP at muniera@panmacmillan.co.za or SMS 078 804 0591.
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David Coltart
Image showing latest damage to the dam wall
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Senator Muzerengwa (of Buhera) and Hon. Roy Bennett, at an MDC rally in August, 2009 in Sakubva, Zimbabwe
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