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  • Zimbabwe mining taxes disappear

    Millions of dollars in royalties paid by diamond mining firms in eastern Zimbabwe have disappeared, a parliamentary committee found, amid fears they could be used to finance harassment in forthcoming ...

  • Robert Mugabes party asks court to delay Zimbabwe elections

    Robert Mugabe at the SADC meeting of regional leaders, who called for the Zimbabwe election deadline to be pushed back. Photograph: Ferhat Momade/AFP/Getty ...

  • U.S. State Departments Yamamoto At Senate Hearing On Zimbabwe

    U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Written statement by Acting Assistant Secretary Donald Yamamoto, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African ...

  • AU on collision course with Sadc over Zimbabwe elections

    The African Union has dispatched a nine member advance team of election observers to Zimbabwe ahead of polls President Mugabe wants held by July 31.Mugabe, through his Justice minister Patrick Chinamasa on Tuesday filed a Constitutional Court application seeking a two week extension to the poll date following advice from regional leaders at the weekend.But indications are that the veteran ruler ...

  • Zimbabwes president goes back to court to delay July 31 polls for at least 2 weeks

    HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's highest court said Wednesday it has received an application from longtime President Robert Mugabe's party to delay crucial elections by at least two weeks following pressure from regional leaders. Mugabe has insisted he is merely abiding by a previous court order in holding general elections on July 31. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a longtime Mugabe ...


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  • Record Zimbabwe debts to Equatorial Guinea

    Equatorial Guinea has emerged as one of Zimbabwe's main creditors following massive unpaid oil deliveries since the surrender of coup plotter Simon Mann from Harare to Malabo in ...

  • US was against Zim unity govt

    In a 2007 report from the US Embassy in Harare, a possible national unity government in Zimbabwe is described as "less attractive." President Robert Mugabe is called "the devil" and Morgan Tsvangirai is described as "a flawed ...

  • Zim diamond certification scandal revealed

    Zimbabwean diamonds worth US$ 160 million have been exported to India following a Kimberley Process certification by a South African businessman, although Zimbabwe diamonds are barred from such ...

  • Zimbabwe war of appointments

    President Robert Mugabe is accused of a rush of illegal appointments to Zimbabwean embassies, governor posts and other prominent positions to party followers and family members. The MDC struggles to reverse the ...

  • Zimbabwes first cattle bank opens

    William Mukurazita's deposit at the bank has four legs and moos. Zimbabwe's first "Cattle Bank" has just opened its books in a unique kind of banking where owners bring in their animals as collateral against cash loans. For many rural poor in this southern African country once wracked by world-record inflation, it's the first bank account they've ever had. ...

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