News Source: The New York Times
| 12 days ago
An international body charged with stopping the illicit trade in diamonds that fuel conflict has decided not to suspend Zimbabwe , officials said Friday, though its investigators had concluded Zimbabwe’s military had organized smuggling syndicates...
News Source: News 24
| 12 days ago
Zimbabwe's white farmers said Friday they are trying to raise $1.2m a month to help 4 200 people who face destitution after being forced off their land. The Commercial Farmers' Union (CFU), which represents white Zimbabwean farmers, said that that...
News Source: Financial Times
| 12 days ago
The treaty would provide mechanisms to help resolve disputes and sharply reduce the price of political risk insurance, helping ease concerns about Zimbabwe’s political stability that have inhibited investment despite interest from South African...
News Source: Macleans
| 12 days ago
Investigators for the world's diamond control body say the gems were mined by virtual slaves who had been told to dig or die, and were smuggled out by soldiers who rape and beat civilians. Yet the Kimberley Process, the diamond body, said those gems...
News Source: Christian Science Monitor
| 12 days ago
A regional coalition meeting in Mozambique pressed the leaders to resolve their differences.. Zimbabwe's on-again, off-again coalition government is on again. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai announced Thursday that he had suspended his "...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 12 days ago
Those who campaign against ''blood diamonds'' have described the gem trade's certification as ''farcical'' after Zimbabwe escaped an export ban despite a massacre of miners last year. Human rights groups had called on the Kimberley Process, which...