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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

 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

GLOSSIES

 2008 Hall of Infamy
Inductees 

A month-by-month gallery of the year's most ignominious figures

Dec 25, 08 8:21 PM CST
(Newser) - As we look back at the great people who made their mark this year, let us not forget to document the schlubby, the sneaky, and the just plain criminal. Vanity Fair has done the legwork, rounding up a month-by-month rogue's gallery. Some highlights:
  • January: Rudy Giuliani's Florida
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Rudy Giuliani • Robert Mugabe • politics • Eliot Spitzer • Carly Fiorina • Lipitor • Radovan Karadzic • Rod Blagojevich • Mark Penn • scandal • Robert Jarvik • He Kexin • Richard Fuld • Joe the Plumber • Best of 2008

Zimbabwe, Once Well-Fed, Turns to Eating Bugs

As Mugabe blocks aid, starving population's plight nosedives

Dec 22, 08 6:27 AM CST
(Newser) - Zimbabwe was once "a breadbasket for all of southern Africa," writes Celia Dugger in the New York Times, but a manmade crisis has turned the once-prosperous country into a land of scavengers. The UN says 7 of 10 Zimbabweans eat one meal or fewer a day, thanks to... More »

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Africa • agriculture • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • hunger • starvation

Mugabe's Party Feasts
While Zimbabwe Starves

Over 200 farm animals to be consumed during four-day Zanu-PF conference

Dec 19, 08 12:30 PM CST
(Newser) - The government of Zimbabwe has planned a decadent feast for delegates from the ruling party while starvation and cholera run rampant in the general population, Time reports. Robert Mugabe and 5,000 Zanu-PF delegates will treat themselves to 124 cattle, 81 goats, and 18 pigs across a four-day conference now... More »

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food • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • famine • starvation • Cholera • Zanu-PF

Zimbabwe Activist Kidnapped in Mugabe Crackdown

Human rights activist was gathering abuse testimonials

Dec 14, 08 5:01 AM CST
(Newser) - A prominent Zimbabwe activist collecting evidence of human rights violations by President Robert Mugabe's regime has been kidnapped from her home by 15 armed men claiming to be police officers, reports the Guardian. Jestina Mukoko, director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, was the best-known of 20 activists and dissidents... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Cholera • human rights violations • human rights activists • Jestina Mukoko

Cholera Caused By 'Genocidal' Brits: Mugabe

UK unleashed it in
'racist terrorist attack,' minister claims

Dec 13, 08 10:40 AM CST
(Newser) - The cholera outbreak that’s killed some 792 Zimbabweans is actually a “genocidal onslaught on the people of Zimbabwe by the British,” at least in the mind of Robert Mugabe's information minister. He called the disease a “serious biological chemical weapon,” unleashed by England in “... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • United Kingdom • World Health Organization • Cholera

 Cholera Is Raging, 
 Whatever Mugabe Says 

Zimbabwe nears total collapse as health sector shuts down

Dec 12, 08 6:51 AM CST
(Newser) - Robert Mugabe says that the cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe has ended, but health experts say that 60,000 people could succumb to the disease, and half of the country's population is at risk. Zimbabwe's socioeconomic collapse has frighteningly accelerated, writes Celia Dugger in Harare, and daily life has become impossible.... More »

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Africa • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • collapse • Cholera • hyper-inflation

Mugabe: Cholera Outbreak Has Been 'Arrested'

But 16,000 cases of disease contradict Zimbabwe's president

Dec 11, 08 8:47 AM CST
(Newser) - As the cholera epidemic worsened in Zimbabwe, with more than 16,000 people infected and thousands trying to flee to South Africa, Robert Mugabe said today that the disease had been "arrested." The president used a television appearance to lash out at a supposed western invasion of... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • South Africa • Cholera

 Carter: 
 Zimbabwe 
 Conditions 
 'Horrifying' 

Humanitarian crisis getting worse because of stubborn Mugabe

Dec 9, 08 10:17 AM CST
(Newser) - Jimmy Carter and his group of international peacemakers have been barred from entering Zimbabwe, but reports of conditions there are “horrifying,” the former president tells NPR. Mugabe’s “campaign of oppression” has frustrated attempts to deal with a spreading cholera outbreak. “Mugabe had made every effort,... More »

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Africa • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Jimmy Carter • South Africa • Cholera

 Africa Must 
 Oust Mugabe: 
 Kenyan PM 

Power-sharing isn't working in Zimbabwe, Odinga says

Dec 4, 08 2:22 PM CST
(Newser) - Zimbabwe’s unity government is a sham, and the only way to break the deadlock is to force President Robert Mugabe to resign, Kenya’s prime minister said today. “Power-sharing will not work with a dictator who does not really believe in power-sharing,” Raila Odinga told the BBC.... More »

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Kenya • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • South Africa • power sharing deal • power sharing • Jacob Zuma • Raila Odinga

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