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Tsvangirai Boycotts Unity Government in Zimbabwe

But he's not pulling out of the coalition just yet

Oct 16, 09 1:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Zimbabwe PM Morgan Tsvangirai’s party will boycott Cabinet meetings and cut off communication with president Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF, theoretically its partner in government. The move accompanies growing anger among members of Tsvangirai’s MDC over Mugabe’s strong-arm tactics and the jailing of a Cabinet minister-designate, the More »

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Africa • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • boycott • coalition government • Zanu-PF • MDC • Southern African Development Community • Roy Bennett • unity government

Nestle Scraps Milk Deal With Mugabe Farms

Critics threatened company boycott over 'blood milk'

Oct 2, 09 8:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nestle will stop buying milk from Zimbabwean farms seized by the wife of Robert Mugabe after human rights advocates called for an international boycott of the Swiss conglomerate's products. The leader of a South African right group tells the Telegraph he's happy Nestle was giving up "blood milk."... More »

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Nestle Buys Milk From Farms Mugabe Seized

Zimbabwean leader's wife sells 265K gallons a year to food giant

Sep 28, 09 4:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nestle is buying up to 265,000 gallons of milk a year from a Zimbabwean farm seized from white landowners and now owned by the wife of Robert Mugabe. Grace Mugabe has taken over at least six of the country's most valuable farms, reports the Telegraph. As a Swiss... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • milk • Nestle • food industry • Grace Mugabe

Clinton: South Africa Must Push Zimbabwe to Reform

Secretary of State says no end to sanctions against Mugabe

Aug 7, 09 9:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton is in South Africa, where the secretary of State called on the continent's richest nation to pressure Zimbabwe into reform. "South Africa has 3 million refugees from Zimbabwe, and every one of those refugees represents a failure of the Zimbabwean government to care for its own people,... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • diplomacy • secretary of State • South Africa • Jacob Zuma • Movement for Democratic Change

Mugabe Welcomes US Envoy ...by Calling Him an Idiot

Zimbabwe pres: 'I hope he was not speaking for Obama'

Jul 6, 09 11:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Robert Mugabe met with a US envoy for the first time in years last week, and promptly called him an "idiot," Bloomberg reports. The Zimbabwean president went on to say that nothing came out of talks with Johnnie Carson during a conference in Libya. “I hope he... More »

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China • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Obama administration • President Obama • Johnnie Carson

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 US Aims to Help 
 Zimbabwe, Not Mugabe 

Obama set to meet with Tsvangirai today

Jun 12, 09 12:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - With Zimbabwe’s prime minister visiting President Obama today, the key question is how the West can help Morgan Tsvangirai without boosting Robert Mugabe. Under the government's power-sharing agreement, the president retains control of the police, justice system, spy service, and media, writes Celia Dugger in the New York Times.... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • aid • power sharing • President Obama

Zimbabwe Unity Government Divided Over 2 Key Posts

Attorney General, Bank Chief positions cause deadlock; mediators called in

May 21, 09 9:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - The appointment of two key officials has become a sticking point in the tenuous power-sharing agreement between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Reuters reports. The rivals can’t agree on an attorney general or central bank chief, and Tsvangirai has called upon the Southern African Development... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • Attorney General • central bank • power sharing deal • power sharing

Tsvangirai
Crash Was No Accident: MDC

Zimbabwe PM's party believes Mugabe was behind fatal collision

Apr 17, 09 2:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - The car crash that killed Morgan Tsvangirai's wife last month may not have been accidental, the BBC reports, citing early reports from the investigation. Tsvangirai’s political party suspects the collision with a USAID truck was engineered to kill the Zimbabwean PM after he entered a power-sharing agreement with President... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • car crash • Zanu-PF • MDC • Susan Tsvangirai

Mugabe Aides Use Violence
in Bid for Amnesty

Associates fear retribution from newly powerful opposition

Apr 10, 09 7:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Aides to Robert Mugabe, fearing that the end is near and they will be prosecuted for their misdeeds, are trying to gain leverage through familiar means—abduction and torture, the New York Times reports. The strategy seems to boil down to this: Jail as many opposition figures as possible on... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • amnesty • political intimidation

Zimbabwe's Prisons Are
'Hell on Earth'

With no food, medicine, dozens die daily in death camp conditions

Apr 1, 09 10:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - In Zimbabwe even a short prison term can quickly turn into a death sentence: Conditions are so unsanitary and food so scarce that dozens die daily, as revealed in a secretly shot documentary. Using smuggled cameras, the film shows rotting bodies and mass graves—and that's just in a single... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • AIDS • prison • starvation • cholera

OPINION

 2009's Least Sexy Men 


Mar 26, 09 12:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Boston Phoenix rolls out its 100 unsexiest men list, taking into account both looks and karma. Here’s a taste:
  • Rush Limbaugh: “America’s ugliest moment of 2009? Rush Limbaugh, his man-boobs a-jiggle, bouncing at the CPAC podium.”
  • Alex Rodriguez: “Could
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Dick Cheney • Robert Mugabe • Rush Limbaugh • Alex Rodriguez • Warren Jeffs • Joaquin Phoenix • Toby Young • Lil Wayne • Jimmy Fallon • unsexy • Howard Stern Grid

Zimbabwe Sees Hope as Mugabe's Grip Weakens

Bread is affordable, kids go to school—but there's a long way to go

Mar 20, 09 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Gains are fragile and much work remains, but opposition lawmakers in Zimbabwe's new coalition government finally see hope that they can weaken Robert Mugabe and put the nation on track, the New York Times reports. Donor nations are pressuring for better economic policies, a free press, and other reforms, and... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • political reform • coalition government • Zanu-PF

Zimbabwe Frees Cabinet Nom From Prison

Opposition figure
was jailed despite power-sharing deal

Mar 12, 09 8:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Zimbabwean cabinet nominee from Morgan Tsvangirai's party was released from custody today, a day after the country's supreme court ordered his release on bail. Roy Bennett, Tsvangirai's nominee for agriculture secretary in the new unity government, was arrested last month and charged with plotting terrorism, sabotage, and other crimes.... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • power sharing deal • Movement for Democratic Change • Roy Bennett

 Mugabe at 
 Tsvangirai 
 Funeral: 
 'Violence 
 Must End' 

Prez speaks at service for rival's wife

Mar 10, 09 11:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Speaking today at the funeral of his rival’s wife, President Robert Mugabe told supporters “that the issue of violence must end” in Zimbabwe, the BBC reports. He pleaded with mourners to “accept” Susan Tsvangirai’s death in a car crash. “It’s the hand of God,... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • president • violence • prime minister • funeral • Susan Tsvangirai

Tsvangirai: Crash Was Probably an Accident

Only 'one in a thousand' chance foul play involved

Mar 9, 09 11:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Morgan Tsvangirai today said that the car accident that killed his wife was likely just that: an accident. Tsvangrai’s MDC has raised suspicions that the crash could have been an assassination attempt, but the prime minister dismissed that theory. “When something happens, there is always speculation,” he... More »

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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

 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

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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