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A community portal about Zimbabwe with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, and formerly known as the Republic of Rhodesia, is a landlocked country in the southern part of... [more]

A community portal about Zimbabwe with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, and formerly known as the Republic of Rhodesia, is a landlocked country in the southern part of the continent of Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It borders South Africa to the south, Botswana to the west, Zambia to the northwest, and Mozambique to the east. The name Zimbabwe derives from "dzimba dzemabwe" meaning "houses of stone" in the Shona language. Its use as the country's name is a tribute to Great Zimbabwe, site of the capital of the Munhumutapa Empire.

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Zimbabwe child mortality up 20 percent, U.N. says

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's infant mortality rate has risen by 20 percent over the past two decades as children under five succumb to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and pneumonia, a joint government and United Nations survey showed on Tuesday. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday a survey it carried with Zimbabwe's government in May this year showed the number of children dying under the age of five had risen by 20 percent since 1990, the baseline year for the UN's Millennium Development Goals. However, UNICEF had said in a March 2005 report that the under-5 mortality rate rose 50 percent between 1990-2005 ... Read Full Story

Obama honors Mugabe foes for defying a "dictator"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama honored a group of women Monday who have confronted Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and said they had defied a dictator. "They often don't get far before being confronted by President Mugabe's riot police," Obama said at a ceremony for Magodonga Mahlangu and the organization she helps lead -- WOZA, which stands for Women of Zimbabwe Arise. "By her example, Magodonga has shown the women of WOZA and the people of Zimbabwe that they can undermine their oppressors' power with their own power -- that they can sap a dictator's strength with their own," he said, presenting the ... Read Full Story

Obama awards Zimbabwe group, blasts Mugabe

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US President Barack Obama has given an award to a leading women's rights activist in Zimbabwe, labeling Robert Mugabe a "dictator" in the process. Obama presented Magodonga Mahlangu and her organization Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) with the 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in a White House ceremony. "Each time they see Magodonga beaten back, beaten black and blue during one protest, only to get right back up and lead another, singing freedom songs at the top of her lungs in full view of security forces, the threat of a policeman's baton loses some of its power," he said. WOZA has united ... Read Full Story

Zimbabwe women, receiving rights award, speak out

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After the beatings by President Robert Mugabe's policemen, the overcrowded, lice-ridden jail cells, the degradation of nightly strip-searches, Jenni Williams and Magondonga Mahlangu still cling to hope for Zimbabwe. They talk of hope that the devastated country still may be able to write a homegrown constitution, which would lead to real elections and recovery from the depths that a decade of increasingly malign misrule has dug. How can these women, together arrested more than 50 times for leading nonviolent protests against the Mugabe government, still think such things? "Look," Williams says, flinging out her arms, "we're trying to be optimistic here!" Both women laugh. ... Read Full Story

In Zimbabwe Five Die As Cholera Returns

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A woman in Harare and her children draw water from a stagnant pool in Harare. It has started raining in Zimbabwe , bringing natural water, but also spreading sewage which flows in the streets. Morgan Tsvangirai has now become complicit in the deaths of Zimbabweans by failing to implement policies that could have avoided the cholera outbreak that is now claiming lives yet again in Zimbabwe. The people that he was their champion, that he had gone into government to fight in their corner against Mugabe. yet, instead of fighting Mugabe to reduce the US$22 million foreign travel bill for Ministers (Tsvangirai included), he ... Read Full Story
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Zimbabwe : Talks On Power-Sharing Finally Begin
Harare — Zimbabwe's three governing political parties have finally started dialogue to save their shaky power sharing arrangement after missing a two week deadline. Representatives from President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF and the two Movement for ...  
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Zimbabwe : Zimbabwean Activist Receives Kennedy Award for Human Rights...
In the early 1980s, Zimbabwe's Magodonga Mahlangu witnessed the massacre of thousands in Matabeleland, including family members, and she decided it was intolerable that the people of Zimbabwe were forbidden to know the truth about what was happening ...  
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Commonwealth offer for Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe will be offered a seat back in the Commonwealth within two years as long as it agrees to political and economic reform. President Robert Mugabe pulled the nation out of the Commonwealth, which he denounced as an "evil organisation", in 2003 ...  
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Zimbabwe: Talks Resume Between Zanu PF and MDC
The country's three main political parties have finally begun discussing crucial outstanding issues in the Global Political Agreement to try to end the long running dispute between Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai.  
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Zimbabwe and the 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.
More about those awards last night. Most importantly Zimbabwean activists Magondonga Mahlangu and Jenni Williams were awarded the The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award this year. The two women representing Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) were awarded for their courageous human rights activism in Zimbabwe. WOZA, says its website, creates space to allow Zimbabweans to [...] Related posts:Tsvangirai meets Obama On Friday. Statement from the...  
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