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By Peta Thornycroft Harare 31 March 2008 Zimbabwe's electoral commission has begun releasing official results from the nation's presidential and legislative elections. The announcement of the preliminary tallies, showing the ruling and main oppositio
By Peta Thornycroft Harare 20 February 2006 The recent split in Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change has the country's opposition in disarray. However, a potential new leader has moved into view.
By Peta Thornycroft Southern Africa 23 January 2008 Zimbabwe police clamped down hard on protesters, beating them as they made their way to a rally, following the brief detention of the founding president of the country's political opposition. As Pet
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 02 April 2007 Zimbabwe is bracing for a two-day general strike by trade unions angry over low wages and deteriorating economic conditions. The stay-at-home days have been called as security forces continue their crackdown o
By Tendai Maphosa London 29 March 2008 Zimbabwean law does not allow citizens outside the country to vote. But to show their solidarity with Zimbabweans who are voting in Saturday's elections, some of those in the diaspora have organized mock balloti
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 29 March 2008 Zimbabweans are going to the polls today to choose a president, parliament and local councils. The elections come amid a severe economic crisis, as we hear from VOA's Scott Bobb in our Southern Africa Bureau i
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 27 March 2008 As Zimbabweans prepare to go to the polls Saturday, pre-election activity is being closely watched by an estimated 3 million Zimbabweans living in neighboring South Africa. Although they cannot vote, these exi
By Benedict Nhlapo Johannesburg, South Africa 25 March 2008 ASouth Africa-based NGO is organizing free transport for Zimbabweans who're eager to return to their homeland to vote in Saturday's presidential elections. The Peace Democracy Project also s
By Tendai Maphosa London 22 June 2007 Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change, said that the collapsing economy in Zimbabwe would force Mr. Mugabe to allow free and fair elections. From London, Tendai Map
By Peta Thornycroft Harare 23 April 2006 The Zimbabwe government is making it possible for some white farmers to legally remain on their land, and for others to return home, after they were evicted du
By Peta Thornycroft Harare 27 March 2006 James Murap stands in parched maize crops near Harare (File photo - Nov. 2, 2005) USAID's Famine Early Warning Systems Network, FEWSNET, has listed Zimbabwe as
The European Union Tuesday tightened sanctions against Zimbabwe president, Robert Mugabe. The EU foreign ministers added 37 more people to the EU list of individuals under a visa ban and asset freeze that already includes the president and members o
South Africa's two most powerful leaders, the president and head of the ruling party, have warned the situation in Zimbabwe is dire and that urgent steps are needed to avoid a collapse in the country. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from Johannesburg,
Humanitarian officials are expressing growing concern over deteriorating health and sanitation conditions in Zimbabwe as crisis talks between political parties show no signs of progress. VOA's Scott Bobb reports from our Southern African Bureau in J
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that only a concerted international effort led by Zimbabwe's neighbors can end the political and humanitarian crisis in that country. On Monday, Rice reiterated her call for Zimbabwean President Robert M
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has appointed eight ministers to head key portfolios in an acting capacity. The appointments were made as Movement for Democratic Change leaders meet in Johannesburg. Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe (file photo) P
By Peta Thornycroft South Africa 21 October 2009 South Africa's President Jacob Zuma (file photo) Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has met South African President Jacob Zuma, the outgoing chairman of the Southern Africa Development Communit
Zimbabwe's human rights lawyers are considering pulling out of participation in drafting a new constitution because they say more than 40 percent of the delegates are politicians while civil right activists and other non governmental organizations m
By Peta Thornycroft Harare 19 June 2006 The founding legal secretary in Zimbabwe's divided opposition Movement for Democratic Change, David Coltart, has announced he has joined the faction of the party lead by scientist Arthur Mutambara. -----------
By Tendai Maphosa London 18 December 2007 It has been another difficult year for Zimbabwe, with a seemingly ever-increasing political and economic crisis that has forced an estimated 3 million Zimbabweans into exile. From London, Tendai Maphosa spoke