Harare Politics News

The charges carry a death penalty upon conviction. The MDC says Mugabe is frustrating efforts to swear in Bennett, along with other senior MDC officials, as required by a political agreement signed last year between the rival parties. Arms dealer...

Former president Thabo Mbeki has been formally removed as the Southern African region's mediator in the Zimbabwe crisis, government announced this week. At the same time, the South African team appointed by President Jacob Zuma is tasked with producing results...

Charles Nqakula, former defence minister and current adviser to President Jacob Zuma, will lead a team to facilitate talks on the Zimbabwean power-sharing agreement, the presidency said on Thursday. Nqakula would work with "special envoy" Mac Maharaj, who returns to...

Zimbabwe will be offered a seat back in the Commonwealth within two years as long as it agrees to political and economic reform. President Robert Mugabe pulled the nation out of the Commonwealth, which he denounced as an "evil organisation",...

It also accuses the Commonwealth of ignoring conflicts between member states, backtracking on a pledge to encourage democratic principles set out at a summit in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1991, and of failing to defend good government. The 53-member organisation, linked...

South African President Jacob Zuma has postponed his visit to assess Zimbabwe’s troubled power sharing agreement after the feuding parties missed a deadline to kick start negotiations but his advisors have expressed impatience over delays to conclude the talks. Regional...

Mabasa Sasa Sharm El-Sheikh — CHINA'S partnership with Africa provides the best example of how countries should relate globally at the economic, political and cultural levels, President Mugabe has said. Addressing the opening session of the Fourth Ministerial Conference of...

African mediators were set to meet on Friday with President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in a bid to revive Zimbabwe's unity deal, paralysed over the arrest of an aide to the premier. Tsvangirai, the former opposition leader,...

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe used the U.N. summit on world hunger Tuesday to lash out at the West and defend land reforms blamed for plunging his people into starvation...Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Mugabe said the policy under which...