By Peta Thornycroft Southern Africa 12 October 2007 There is growing concern in Zimbabwe that presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for next March will not live up to the expectations of the people. Peta Thornycroft reports that one of t...
By Peta Thornycroft Southern Africa 11 October 2007 A group of 12 Zimbabwe women who say they regularly have been mistreated in police custody have produced an interim report they say documents shocking statistics of violence against members of their...
By Tendai Maphosa London 21 September 2007 The Zimbabwean ambassador to the United Nations has accused British Prime Minister Gordon Brown of trying to dictate who should attend the European Union-African Union summit by threatening to stay away if P...
By Peta Thornycroft 20 September 2007 The division in Zimbabwe's broad opposition movement appears to be widening as a long-serving activist for constitutional reform has accused the Movement for Democratic Change of treachery for supporting a consti...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 26 June 2007 The U.N. Children's Fund says it is very concerned by the rapidly deteriorating condition of children and women in Zimbabwe. UNICEF says it needs more than $6 million immediately to address the urgent needs of chil...
By Peta Thornycroft Southern Africa 16 June 2007 Hours before the first South African-mediated talks between Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) were due to begin in Pretoria, police in Harare seized the...
By Peta Thornycroft Harare 13 May 2007 A woman begs in a street in Harare, Zimbabwe (File) Prices of consumer goods, particularly groceries, have doubled in a month in Zimbabwe. Peta Thornycroft reports for VOA that Zimbabwe shopkeepers and consumers...
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 02 April 2007 Zimbabwe is bracing for a two-day general strike by trade unions angry over low wages and deteriorating economic conditions. The stay-at-home days have been called as security forces continue their crackdown o...
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 30 March 2007 Leaders of Zimbabwe's ruling party met Friday to decide whether President Robert Mugabe should stand for reelection next year. There are reports that some party leaders believe the 83-year-old president shoul...
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 14 March 2007 Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says police brutally beat him and other opposition leaders following their arrest on Sunday. Mr. Tsvangirai was interviewed by a radio reporter who was at the...