News Source: News 24
| about 1 month ago
Zimbabwe's neighbours will hold a summit this week to try to break an impasse that threatens the Southern African nation's unity government, a spokesperson for Zimbabwe's prime minister said Monday. President Robert Mugabe, accused by the premier of...
News Source: Inter Press Service
| about 1 month ago
The past week brought new scrutiny of Zimbabwe's human rights record with the deportation of a senior U.N. official sent to investigate torture there, and demands by a coalition of civil society groups that the international community address human...
News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 month ago
Chairman Joseph Kabila, also president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, met with President Robert Mugabe and principals in Harare's unity government to follow up an assessment last week by troika foreign ministers. Spokesperson Yunassy Muchanga...
News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 month ago
Officials of the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme opened a four-day meeting in Windhoek, Namibia on Monday to decide among other matters whether to bar the sale of Zimbabwean diamonds on world markets due to alleged human rights violations. The...
News Source: Daily Nation
| about 1 month ago
President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai mandated Mozambique, Zambia and Swaziland to tackle the Zimbabwean crisis. Mr Tsvangirai’s spokesman, Mr James Maridadi told various news agencies that the prime minister had received an...
News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 month ago
An international campaign group says the Kimberley Process, an international watchdog set up to monitor so-called "conflict diamonds", is failing. Britain-based group Global Witness says diamonds are regularly smuggled from Ivory Coast and says...