Ending Mugabe's Threats

Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsavangiri regards President Robert Mugabe as a threat, and with good reason. Mugabe's thugs gave him a merciless beating which resulted in a fractured skull and a beside news conference that brought Zimbabwe to the world's front pages. ...

Zim Meeting Disappoints: Mugabe Endures

The SADC emergency meeting on the Zimbabwe crisis is winding up, and Robert Mugabe is pleased with the results. Although he reportedly received a behind the scenes scalding over his mismanagement of Zimbabwe's economy and the latest wave of human rights abuses, the dictator...

Zimbabwe Arrests Opposition Leaders Again

While  embattled president Robert Mugabe attends a regional meeting convened in Tanzania to address the Zimbabwe crisis, police have arrested key opposition figures and shut down the headquarters of the main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change"HARARE,...

Mugabe: Zimbabwe is Mine

Actually, Mugabe's actions have spoken for themselves in recent weeks/months/years. His insistence on keeping power has been demonstrated by the beatings, killings and arrests of those who dare speak out against him. Once again Mugabe relies on anti-colonial rhetoric to paint...

Archbishop to South Africa: Step Up to Zimbabwe

South Africa's "quiet diplomacy" with Harare has been too quiet. One would think that SA President Thabo Mbeki is waiting for the Zim crisis to solve itself; it way well do, but it would not be pretty."The head of the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe, Archbishop Pius Ncube,...

The Struggle Continues: Mugabe Opponents Vow to Retake Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe remains in the news. Check out some other articles by NP'ers as well. Zimbabwe finds itself on the brink every so often these past few years; perhaps this time critical mass has been achieved."President Robert Mugabe's opponents have vowed to unite to drive him from...

Security Council Briefing on Zimbabwe

Evelyn Leopard reports that Britain has asked the UN to brief the Security Council on the economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe. On Friday, March 17th "Britain's U.N. Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry said he asked for "a humanitarian briefing" because of the attacks on...

African Union Speaks Out Against Mugabe

As Jordan reports for NP, the Zimbabwean dictator's comment that his critics can go "hang" has riled a number of countries, some of whom have criticized Mugabe's policies for many years. But prior to the latest round of political repression in Zimbabwe, the African Union has...

Mbeki must change his stance on Zimbabwe - Leon

"Cape Town - Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Monday called on President Thabo Mbeki to urgently review government's approach to Zimbabwe, after Sunday's arrest of opposition Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai."The arrest and detention... [of]...

Zimbabwe Oppositon Leader Beaten

Cris Chinaka reports today that the weekend detention of Morgan Tsvangirai(bio) was not merely an infraction against what remains of a democratic process in Zimbabwe. The head of Zimbabwe's main opposition party received head injuries and his face, according to his lawyers,...

Zimbabwe Opposition Chiefs Arrested

Robert Mugabe is the anti-Mandela. One of the heroes of the Rhodesian War and one of the fathers of independent Zimbabwe, he has turned into a despot, unwilling to let democracy take its course. His supposedly pro-Zimbabwean measures have reduced Zimbabwe's economy to ruins,...