Tag Archives : Zimbabwe

The government of the much-beleaguered country of Zimbabwe has been in a power-sharing agreement between the two opposing factions of Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party and Tsvangirai’s MDC party. People hoped that such a much-awaited turn of events not too long ago will mean that the country would be able to surmount its massive economic woes, health crisis, [...]

After slamming the ‘evil’ West, Robert Mugabe seems to have opened the gates to ‘benevolent’ East for trade and investment in Zimbabwe. Of course Robert Mugabe had no option but to take help of China to retain power and survive the international sanctions against Zimbabwe. China was more than eager to step on the rich soil and reap profits [...]

Zimbabwe is witnessing yet another controversy in its very difficult political climate after the recent arrest of Roy Bennett, the Movement For Democratic Change treasurer and deputy agriculture minister-designate who stands trial for three-year-old terrorism charges. “They just assume the protagonists can manage on their own. But this has been a [...]

Roy Bennett who is a senior member of MDC and close associate of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was arrested before his trial scheduled on 19th October. This is the second time this important ministerial nominee of Unity government of Zimbabwe has been imprisoned on the charges of terrorism. Unfortunately first time was in February when coalition [...]

Zimbabwe’s National Housing and Social Amenities Minister Fidelis Mhashu did not really think he would be robbed when he was in South Africa. Unfortunately, when the Minister went to South Africa, he was not just robbed but was also assaulted and they took away his jewellery, money and electronic goods. In fact, the poor Minister suffered from deep [...]

Either Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is already senile (that’s understandable at his ancient age) or he is really just a mouthpiece of his military junta and political cabal. He has been ranting and raving about the enemies of his state while turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the objective and sordid reality of his land. One of his latest [...]

A team that is evaluating if Zimbabwe is accomplishing the international norms to avoid that the trade of diamonds feeds the conflict discovered that the military of the country are directly involved with the illegal mining and that the authorities perpetrated a horrible “violence against civil”, in agreement with the memo that the team [...]

During much of June, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Morgan Tsvangirai traveled abroad to seek aid for his ailing country. He received mostly warm support from the US and Europe. However, he failed to convince donors to come in with substantial aid to help Zimbabwe’s economy which is in ruins. The reason: aid givers are wary of the overstaying dictator [...]

The Zimbabwean army, controlled by the political party of President Robert Mugabe, violently seized the diamond fields of the country last year, and used the illegal income to buy the loyalty of insubordinate soldiers and enrich party leaders, according to a report released yesterday by organization Human Rights Watch. Zimbabwe‘s government [...]

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Japan holds the record for having the world’s longest life expectancy – at close to 90 years. The country also has one of the world’s lowest child mortality rates, indicated by WHO statistics: ‘For every 1,000 babies of both sexes born in Japan, 996 will make it past their fifth birthday [...]