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...
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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 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.
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and the opposition have agreed to further mediation by former South African President Thabo Mbeki to break a four-week deadlock over cabinet posts. The announcement comes less than a month after President Mugabe, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and a smaller...
Zimbabwe's leaders have agreed that power-sharing talks have broken down over the allocation of Cabinet posts and called Friday for former South African President Thabo Mbeki to mediate an end to the deadlock.Mbeki negotiated a power-sharing deal that was signed by President Robert Mugabe and the...
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai failed to reach agreement to break a deadlock over cabinet posts in talks on Friday, a spokesman for the opposition MDC said. The men have held several face ...
JOHANNESBURG: Zimbabwe's inflation rate has surged to 231 million per cent as the Opposition appealed to South Africa's former president, Thabo Mbeki, to rescue the power-sharing deal he brokered last month with the President, Robert Mugabe. The ...
But Nelson Chamisa, spokesman of Tsvangirai's MDC formation, told reporter Blessing Zulu of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that ZANU-PF and the MDC were "three ...
Zimbabwe's official annual inflation rate reached 231 million percent in early October, from the July estimate of 11.2 million percent, and the deadlock in talks between the ruling ZANU-PF and opposition parties is likely to push hyperinflation ...
HARARE (AFP) — Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe agreed on Friday to allow in outside mediation in a bid to break a four-week deadlock over cabinet posts in ...
ANALYSIS 10 October 2008 Violet Gonda Former South African President Thabo Mbeki is expected in Zimbabwe early next week, according to a statement by the Mutumbara MDC.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's political rivals agreed on Friday to seek renewed mediation from former South African President Thabo Mbeki to try to end deadlock over posts in a unity government, the sides said. President Robert Mugabe, opposition ...
AFP - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Thursday that power-sharing talks with President Robert Mugabe's government had stalled and outside mediation was needed to break the deadlock.
SEVERAL journalists were on Wednesday barred by MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai's security guards from entering his Strathaven home where the prime minister-designate was scheduled to hold a press conference.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe's justice minister says the country's leaders have called for former South African President Thabo Mbeki to help break deadlocked power-sharing talks. Patrick Chinamasa says parties decided mediation was necessary and ...
PRESIDENT Mugabe is expected to meet MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai and Professor Arthur Mutambara of MDC to come up with guidelines for the negotiators in their consultations in the allocation of ministries. Today's meeting follows one held by ...
zimZimbabwe's opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), says a deadlock over power sharing arrangements with President Robert Mugabe is plunging the country into deeper economic hardship. MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai is calling for ...