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News Source: Voice of America
| 11 months ago
The Bush administration said Monday it will make a new diplomatic push in the first days of the new year to step up sanctions aimed at forcing Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe from power. The United States has formally dropped its support for power-...
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News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 11 months ago
Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says the international community is "close to a state of despair" over the situation in the country, where food is running out and hundreds have died from a cholera epidemic. Australia has stepped up its sanctions on...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 11 months ago
Britain has called on the president of its former colony, Zimbabwe, to step down, saying the president has made a power-sharing deal with the opposition "impossible." Britain's Africa Minister Mark Malloch Brown said Monday power-sharing is not a...
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News Source: South Africa News
| 11 months ago
The UN said on Friday that 1123 people had been killed by cholera with about 21 000 reported cases. Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, said there is "just not enough food" in Zimbabwe, which was once the bread basket of...
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News Source: African Path
| 11 months ago
News reports, "Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is "a mad dictator" who has lost all sense of reality, a United Nations human rights expert said on Monday. The only way Mugabe can be removed from power is for Europe to convince his "great...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 11 months ago
Zimbabwean officials added to banned list Switzerland has frozen the accounts of 11 more Zimbabwean officials and banned those persons from entering or travelling through the country. A majority of the officials are linked to President Robert Mugabe...
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News Source: Canadian Free Press
| 11 months ago
The African despot said he would only give up power when his people demanded it. ‘I will never, never, never, never surrender. Zimbabwe is mine, I am a Zimbabwean,’ he ranted. ‘Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans. Zimbabwe never for the British, Britain...
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News Source: Seattle Times
| 11 months ago
Zimbabwe — Along a road in Matabeleland, barefoot children stuff their pockets with corn kernels that have blown off a truck as if the brownish bits, good only for animal feed in normal times, were gold coins. In the dirt lanes of Chitungwiza, the...
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News Source: Al Jazeera
| 11 months ago
A deal on power-sharing in Zimbabwe will not work while Robert Mugabe remains president of the country, the senior US envoy to Africa has said. Jendayi Frazer, US assistant secretary of state for African affairs, said on Sunday that Washington does...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 11 months ago
The United Nations says it has "credible information" that Zimbabwe may have received Chinese weapons by way of the Democratic Republic of Congo...Security Council says Boeing aircraft delivered 53 tons of Chinese ammunition, meant for the Zimbabwean...