Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

• Zimbabwe PM: We will end police, military abuse

  Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Sunday his party will end years of bias and abuse by the police, military and intelligence services and ... 

• Zimbabwe PM confident he'll oust Mugabe in vote

  Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday he is poised to sweep to victory in upcoming presidential elections and return the nation to the ... 

• State radio: Zimbabwe voter campaigners arrested

  Zimbabwe's state radio says police arrested three polling campaigners for illegally promoting voter awareness ahead of crucial elections. The radio ... 

• Jealous Zimbabwean husband poisons 6

  Court officials in Zimbabwe say a man has been charged in the murder of six people who died from poisoned food meant only for a neighbor he accused ... 

• Zimbabwe youth leader in jail for Mugabe slur

  A young political activist who compared Zimbabwe's president to a lame donkey will spend another week in jail, his attorney said Tuesday. 

• Zimbabwe's president: New tasks for Africa's spies

  Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe urged African intelligence services Monday to prepare for fresh onslaughts by foreigners and the continent's former ... 

• Zimbabwe army chief: No talks with prime minister

  Zimbabwe's army commander said he would not speak to the nation's prime minister, describing him as a "sellout" and a "psychiatric patient," reported ... 

• PM's youth leader in jail for Mugabe slur

  A lawyer for a youth leader in the Zimbabwe prime minister's party says he is in jail for referring to the nation's longtime ruler as "a limping ... 

• Zimbabwe generals: We won't meet prime minister

  Zimbabwe's generals and police commanders say they won't meet with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and other "malcontents" trying to undermine their ... 

• Zimbabwe PM's party: Voters' lists being inflated

  Zimbabwean state election officials are dramatically inflating the numbers of electors on new voters' lists months ahead of crucial polls, Prime ... 

• Excited cheetah grazes face of Botswana president

  An overexcited cheetah jumped up from behind a fence and scratched the face of Botswana's President Ian Khama, causing minor injuries, the southern ... 

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  Zimbabwe president: No interference in new polls

  At Zimbabwe's independence celebrations, President Robert Mugabe said Thursday his nation won't accept outside interference in crucial elections later ... 

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  Hopes, fears as Zimbabwe marks 33rd birthday

  The name of Zimbabwe's last white leader, who ceded power to Robert Mugabe 33 years ago and who died six years ago, has at last been removed from the ... 

• SAfricans: Did Thatcher help or hinder apartheid?

  Nineteen years after the end of apartheid, South Africans are still passionately divided over whether Margaret Thatcher helped or hindered the cruel ... 

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  Zimbabwe groups: election intimidation building

  Elections in Zimbabwe are still months away, but already President Robert Mugabe's party is intimidating its opponents and threatening violence, human ... 

• Zimbabwe court releases 4 aides to prime minister

  Zimbabwe's High Court on Wednesday freed on bail four senior officials from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party accused of illegally collecting ... 

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  Zimbabwe court frees rights lawyer

  Zimbabwe's top rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, released by a court after eight days in jail for allegedly obstructing justice, said Monday her arrest ... 

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  Zimbabwe rights lawyer bail appeal postponed

  A Zimbabwean court on Friday postponed a bail appeal to release the nation's top rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa. Mtetwa was arrested March 17 on ... 

• Zimbabwe PM's party: 2 more staffers arrested

  Zimbabwean police on Thursday arrested two more members of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's office staff, said his party, raising the number ... 

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  Zimbabwe court denies bail to human rights lawyer

  A Zimbabwe court refused Wednesday to free on bail the nation's top rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, on charges of obstructing justice after her arrest ... 

• Zimbabwe's president calls for African papal visit

  Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe says he wants Pope Francis to visit Africa because he is "a man of God who will be praying for all of us, praying ... 

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  Zimbabweans vote in favor of new constitution

  Zimbabwe's electoral body said Tuesday that 94.5 percent of voters cast a ballot in favor of a new constitution that calls for a strengthening of ... 

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  Zimbabwe rights lawyer to spend 3rd night in jail

  Prominent Zimbabwean rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa was set to spend a third night in jail Tuesday after a court adjourned a hearing on charges she ... 

• Zimbabwe police ignore order to free top lawyer

  An independent Zimbabwean lawyers' group said Monday the continued detention of one of its top members, the country's most prominent human rights ...