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Zimbabwe stories: 201 news summaries

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 Tsvangirai Heads Home 
  for Wife's Funeral 

Supporters feared Mugabe power grab in his absence

Mar 9, 09 1:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Grieving Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is expected back in Zimbabwe today to attend his wife's funeral, days after the couple's car was hit by a US aid truck. Tsvangirai had left for Botswana—home of his closest regional ally—shortly after the accident that some believe may have been an... More »

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Africa • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • death • car crash • power sharing

 UK Paid for Truck That 
 Killed Tsvangirai's Wife 

Party plans independent investigation into crash

Mar 8, 09 5:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The truck that killed the wife of Zimbabwe's prime minister was funded by Britain and registered with US officials in Harare, the Times of London reports. The driver, who said he had dozed off, was transporting anti-HIV drugs when he crashed into a vehicle carrying Morgan Tsvangirai and his wife.... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • aid • car crash • assassination attempt • HIV/AIDS • traffic accident

 Tsvangirai Crash No 
 Accident, Party Charges 

Opposition suspects Mugabe in possible assassination attempt

Mar 7, 09 4:06 AM CST
(Newser) - The crash that injured Robert Mugabe's chief political opponent and killed his wife may have been an assassination attempt instead of an accident, members of Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change tell the Daily Telegraph. A statement from the MDC appealed for Zimbabweans to stay calm but observed that many... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • car crash • Movement for Democratic Change

(Newser) - Morgan Tsvangirai was injured and his wife killed today when their car collided head-on with a large truck, CNN reports. The Zimbabwe prime minister is in the hospital, and the extent of his injuries is unclear. Tsvangirai was Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader before taking the prime minister post in... More »

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Zimbabwe • Morgan Tsvangirai • car crash

 Mugabe Hosts $250K 
 Party in Starving Zimbabwe 

Cholera, hyperinflation, land grabs... Let's dance!

Feb 28, 09 1:50 PM CST
(Newser) - More than half of his country is starving, just 10% have jobs, and nearly 4,000 have died of cholera since August, but none of that has stopped Robert Mugabe from partying. Zimbabwe’s president spent $250,000 on his 85th birthday bash today, which included a 187-pound cake, the... More »

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Africa • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • corruption • birthday • dictatorship • Zanu-PF

Donations Dry Up for Mugabe's 85th Birthday Bash

Unity government reduces Zanu-PF's ability to intimidate

Feb 23, 09 2:14 PM CST
(Newser) - Celebrations are underway in Zimbabwe this week to honor President Robert Mugabe’s 85th birthday, but the country's economic crisis, cholera epidemic, and shifting balance of power have dried up donations for the usually over-the-top festivities, the Times of London reports. Officials of his Zanu-PF party aimed to raise $300,... More »

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Africa • Zimbabwe • Morgan Tsvangirai • corruption • donation • dictatorship • prime minister • Movement for Democratic Change • Zanu-PF

Mugabe's Police to Hold Opposition Pol for 2nd Day

Prosecutors fail to show up to present charges against ministerial nominee

Feb 16, 09 3:51 PM CST
(Newser) - In another blow to Zimbabwe's fledgling unity government, police moved to hold a prominent opposition politician in jail for second day, the BBC reports. Roy Bennett will most likely spend the night in jail after prosecutors failed to come to court today to present insurgency and terrorism charges against the... More »

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Africa • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • dictatorship • Movement for Democratic Change • Zimbabwean emigrants

Mugabe Buys Secret $5.8M Hong Kong Getaway

Prez spends lavishly as Zimbabwean economy implodes

Feb 15, 09 8:03 AM CST
(Newser) - While his country battles massive inflation, unemployment and cholera, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has secretly bought a $5.8 million residence in Hong Kong, the Times of London reports. His wife recently spent some $80,000 on Vietnamese statues and $12,500 on a bag. When she recently discussed a... More »

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inflation • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Hong Kong • president • unemployment • getaway • assault • home • cholera

Crisis Hits New Zimbabwean Government

Mugabe has incoming minister charged
with treason

Feb 14, 09 3:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Just 3 days old, Zimbabwe’s unity government is already in crisis, the Times of London reports. Robert Mugabe’s agents arrested a top deputy to new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and charged him with treason, unleashing fierce protests and more Western skepticism about the government’s prospects. Hours earlier,... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • diplomat

 Tsvangirai 
 Sworn In as 
 Zimbabwe PM 

Amid skepticism, former opposition leader joins Mugabe

Feb 11, 09 5:57 AM CST
(Newser) - Morgan Tsvangirai, whose Movement for Democratic Change has fought Robert Mugabe for years, joined forces with his rival today as the new prime minister of Zimbabwe, reports the Times of London. Tsvangirai's decision to bring his party into the government has dismayed many pro-democracy leaders, and international leaders have grown... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • prime minister • power sharing deal • power sharing • Movement for Democratic Change

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The World's Worst Vacation: Zimbabwe

Amid disease and starvation, a tourism industry clings on

Feb 10, 09 10:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Zimbabwe's currency is worthless, its population is almost entirely unemployed, and a thuggish government uses intimidation, censorship, and torture to maintain an iron grip on power. Why would any tourist want to go there? For Jocelyn C. Zuckerman, writing in Gourmet, a trip to Robert Mugabe's ruined nation is eye-opening—... More »

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travel • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • tourism • Harare

 

 Mugabe Thugs Collect 
 for Presidential Pig-Out 

Starving country's ruling party gets tough to tackle champagne, caviar shortage

Feb 10, 09 3:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Aggressive supporters of Zimbabwe's ruling party have been pressing the country's farmers and businesses for "donations" to fund Robert Mugabe's ultra-luxe 85th birthday bash, the Times of London reports. A wish list supplied to the Times includes 8,000 bottles of champagne, 8,000 lobsters, and 4,000 portions... More »

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Africa • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • food shortage • Zanu-PF

Zimbabwe Opposition OKs Power-Sharing Plan

Tsvangirai will be PM starting Feb. 11

Jan 30, 09 8:53 AM CST
(Newser) - In a “leap of faith” settlement, Zimbabwe’s opposition leader has agreed to a power-sharing plan after months of political turmoil, the BBC reports. Morgan Tsvangirai will become prime minister on Feb. 11 while Robert Mugabe remains president under a new timetable brokered by a southern African coalition. “... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • prime minister • power sharing deal • Movement for Democratic Change • unity • Southern African Development Community

(Newser) - Zimbabwe’s cholera epidemic has now infected more than 60,000 people, a number the World Health Organization had previously pegged as the “worst case scenario,” the BBC reports. More than 3,000 have died from the disease since its August outbreak, and with Zimbabwe’s water, sanitation,... More »

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United Nations • Zimbabwe • World Health Organization • cholera

 Obama Out to Topple Mugabe 

US to lead push for UN sanctions

Jan 28, 09 1:49 AM CST
(Newser) - President Obama is preparing to lead an international effort to crack down on the Mugabe regime with an aim to driving the controversial autocrat from office, reports the Times of London. The US will push for tougher UN sanctions against Zimbabwe, including a foreign investment ban, and press Russia and... More »

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China • Russia • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • sanctions • Susan Rice • Zanu-PF • UN Security Council • Obama administration • Southern African Development Community

Mugabe's Wife Pounds Photog

Brit learns hard way not to mess with first lady and her diamond-encrusted rings

Jan 18, 09 1:45 PM CST
(Newser) - The wife of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe attacked a photographer for the Times of London who caught her leaving a posh Hong Kong hotel, the newspaper reports. Grace Mugabe ordered her bodyguard to seize the shutterbug’s camera—and then joined in the fracas. The photographer suffered nine cuts, abrasions... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Hong Kong • photographers • assault • bodyguard

(Newser) - Robert Mugabe has backtracked on his denial of the Zimbabwean cholera crisis, AFP reports. “He is acknowledging there is a problem,” said a UNICEF official who met with him today. “He recognizes there is a problem with the water and the sewer systems.” The admission comes... More »

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Africa • United Nations • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • UNICEF • epidemic • cholera

Opponents of Mugabe Allege Torture in Court

Zimbabwe political prisoners suffered beatings, abuse

Jan 16, 09 6:53 AM CST
(Newser) - More than a dozen human rights activists and allies of Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai were tortured by agents of Robert Mugabe, a court heard yesterday. The New York Times reports that the activists were abducted, detained in secret prisons, and brutalized until they confessed to crimes they had not... More »

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torture • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • political prisoner • Jestina Mukoko

(Newser) - Pressure from nonprofits and watchdogs is mounting on the UN to intercede in Zimbabwe’s humanitarian crisis, GlobalPost reports. Physicians for Human Rights asserts that Robert Mugabe intentionally dismantled the country’s health and sanitation infrastructure, and is directly responsible for the cholera outbreak that has claimed 1,800 lives.... More »

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health care • Africa • United Nations • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • sanitation • crimes against humanity • International Criminal Court • cholera • Physicians for Human Rights

OPINION

The World's Worst Humanitarian Crises

Civil war and displacement fuel tragedies across the globe: aid group

Dec 23, 08 4:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Aid organization Doctors Without Borders has released its annual list of the world's worst humanitarian crises. Here's a sample:
  • Somalia: Increased friction between insurgents and the government unleashed some of the worst violence in a decade. One in five children there dies before turning 5.
  • Congo: Hundreds of
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Zimbabwe • Pakistan • HIV • list • humanitarian crisis • Doctors Without Borders • HIV/AIDS • Congo • Best of 2008

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