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by Peter Marimudza Wednesday 29 February 2012 HARARE -- A typhoid outbreak that began in Harare last year is steadily spreading across Zimbabwe with more than 3 000 cases reported although only one...

by Peter Marimudza HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has vowed to block a new constitution that would prevent him from running for president, while also insisting he would not permit restructuring of...

by Peter Marimudza HARARE -- More than half of Zimbabwe’s teachers have at one point during the past decade experienced some form of political violence including being threatened, beaten up, tortured...

by Peter Marimudza Monday 30 January 2012 HARARE – City health officials and independent doctors have warned of a possible cholera outbreak in Harare, already grappling with a typhoid outbreak that...

HARARE - The Roman Catholic church’s human rights arm on Sunday urged Zimbabwean authorities to declare chronic water shortages in the country a national disaster, amid rising cases of typhoid in the...

by James Mombe JOHANNESBURG – South African police were on Friday monitoring the situation at Itireleng informal settlement near Laudium, west of Pretoria, after an outbreak of xenophobic violence...

JOHANNESBURG – A group of asylum seekers have applied to the Pretoria High Court for an order directing the government to provide adequate refugee reception offices across South Africa. In an...

JOHANNESBURG – Hunger and chronic malnutrition are on the rise in Zimbabwe, the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said. The UN organisation said significant crop...

by Edward Jones HARARE – International rights group Amnesty International has said Zimbabwe should establish a commission of enquiry into systematic human rights violations by security forces in the...

by James Mombe JOHANNESBURG – Retired soldiers are harassing villagers in rural Buhera West constituency and threatening them with unspecified but severe punishment for backing Prime Minister Morgan...

by Edward Jones HARARE – Political violence is on the rise in five of Zimbabwe’s ten provinces as tensions rise with ZANU-PF stepping up campaigns in a bid to press for fresh general elections, which...

by Edward Jones HARARE – Zimbabwean rights groups have said the international community should apply more pressure to Harare to adopt a clear roadmap to new elections while demanding the...

by Own Corespondent JOHANNESBURG – More than 130 000 Zimbabweans have been issued permits to stay in South Africa, Pretoria said on Thursday while warning it would begin this month deporting any...

by Edward Jones HARARE – Zimbabwe’s continued failure to investigate past torture crimes such as during the Gukurahundi era and run up to the 2008 violent elections could fuel a repeat of violence...

by James Mombe JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwe’s political situation is increasingly turning volatile amid talk of elections to choose a new government to replace the ruling coalition that has kept the...

by Thulani Munda HARARE – Zimbabwe’s embattled white farmers says they are devastated at the dissolution of a regional court they had seen as their last hope for protection against President Robert...

by Thulani Munda HARARE – There has been a sharp increase in arson attacks against supporters of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party since the former opposition’s congress two weeks ago, the...

by James Mombe JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwe’s civil society groups have called for the demilitarisation of the country’s electoral institutions and processes, while also suggesting polls should be...

by Tobias Manyuchi, Friday 15 April 2011 HARARE – President Robert Mugabe on Thursday vowed to press ahead with a controversial scheme to force foreign-owned firms to sell controlling stake to local...

by James Mombe HARARE - Zimbabwe's unity government is in danger of collapsing Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Thursday, moments after one of his top allies was removed from the post of...