Catherine Bragg, the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and the UN’s Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, will also jointly launch an appeal for Zimbabwe today with senior officials from the Government.
A 35-year-old Indian man is facing allegations he failed to have a license or permit to carry seven diamonds in his possession, Zimbabwean authorities said. The Herald said Wednesday that Indian national Mannemala Deni Kamar Reddy is accused of violating...
Tendai Biti, who inherited a near-basket-case economy when he assumed the role of finance minister in March, was broadly optimistic about Zimbabwe’s prospects, but left little doubt of his concern that bickering within the government was holding the economy back....
December 1, 2009 For a while, the ceremonial groundbreaking on Tuesday was like most others, filled with handshakes, speeches, shovels and smiles. Then the yelling began a full-throated shouting match between Councilman Charles Barron and a trustee of the...
Aml Ameen and Karl Collins in Detaining Justice at the Tricycle, London. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Bola Agbaje's prize-winning first play, Gone Too Far!, vividly captured the racial tensions on London's streets. Her new play, the third in a season by...
It has been a quiet end to Thabo Mbeki’s “quiet diplomacy” on Zimbabwe, with little emerging from the first meetings of Jacob Zuma’s new task team in the country to suggest a major shift in approach. Instead, old disputes were...
Victoria Derbyshire Victoria Derbyshire ventured beyond her studio yesterday – to Zimbabwe, says Camilla Redmond In a bold move, Victoria Derbyshire 's FiveLive show came live from Zimbabwe yesterday – capitalising on the recent lifting of a ban on foreign...
The early press material for An Elegy for Easterly, the collection of short stories that this week won the Guardian First Book award , called Petina Gappah "the voice of Zimbabwe "...But too late: it is there on Amazon, which...
Petina Gappah became only the second short story writer to win the award in its 10-year history, the first being Yiyun Li in 2006. Gappah's collection of 13 stories, An Elegy for Easterly, tells of the lives of people, rich...
James Hansen , head of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, tells our US environment correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg why he hopes Copenhagen will fail to produce a deal on climate change. Pettina Gappah gives her reaction...
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