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African Union team jets in ahead of elections
By Our reporter at June 18, 2013 | 9:04 PM | 0 Comment
A 10-member African Union (AU) pre-observer team has arrived in Zimbabwe to assess the prevailing situation as the country braces for harmonised elections slated for 31 July 2013. This arrival comes as Zanu-PF has indicated that it will not apply to the Constitutional Court for an extension of the date of elections by two weeks. The party says there is no legal basis more...
Zimbabweans better placed to solve own problems: Dlamini-Zuma
By Our reporter at June 18, 2013 | 1:04 AM | 0 Comment
ZIMBABWEANS are better placed to resolve their own problems regarding the holding of presidential and parliamentary elections and regarding President Robert Mugabe's decision to call an election on July 31, the head of the African Union commission said on Monday. Zimbabwe's Supreme Court, sitting as a Constitutional Court ordered President Mugabe two weeks ago to set more...
Zimbabwe sanctions: Zanu-PF slams EU’s ‘cheap propaganda’ and ‘arrogance’
By Our reporter at July 25, 2012 | 2:41 AM | 2 Comments
The Zimbabwean Government has dismissed as a non-event the European Union extension of Zimbabwe sanctions by another year. Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi told journalists in Harare yesterday that Government wanted the EU to unconditionally lift the embargo. He added that the Western bloc is trying to hoodwink the public with its 'cheap propaganda' more...
South Sudan seeks Zimbabwe support
By Our reporter at May 16, 2012 | 12:58 AM | 0 Comment
A delegation from South Sudan has called on the Zimbabwean government to support the rebuilding of its country. A visiting delegation is seeking Zimbabwe's support at the African Union to help resolve the current crisis with its northern neighbour. The South seceded from Sudan last year after years of a bitter conflict, but still has unresolved issues with the more...
Libya: Mugabe attacks African “sellouts”
By Our reporter at September 27, 2011 | 1:58 AM | 1 Comments
PRESIDENT Mugabe has described as "sellouts" those African countries that recognized Libya's transitional government. Libya's new government led by the National Transitional Council was given full membership of the United Nations at the just ended General Assembly. The African Union also voted to recognize the NTC. Adressing reporters Sunday on his return from the more...
Mr Facilitator, do not forget the sanctions
By Dambudzo Mapuranga at July 28, 2011 | 12:41 PM | 2 Comments
SANCTIONS imposed on Zimbabwe by America and the European Union are an act of aggression. Much like war which causes monumental developmental and humanitarian damages sanctions have wrecked havoc on the life of ordinary Zimbabweans. The only difference between outright war and sanctions is that sanctions are financially low-cost. Chester Crocker (the former US more...
Charles Taylor prophecy comes true!
By Our reporter at July 4, 2011 | 8:40 PM | 0 Comment
By Walter Chari “...And here I am, a former African Head of State who has been transplanted from our continent to an isolated jail cell in the Netherlands, awaiting trial at the hands of a court behind which the powerful nations are to be found,... Today it is me and God only knows who it will be tomorrow”. This was written by the former Liberian President, more...
NATO exceeding mandate in Libya: Zuma
By Our reporter at June 14, 2011 | 2:53 PM | 0 Comment
NATO is abusing a United Nations resolution to protect Libyan civilians from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's forces in order to pursue regime change and political assassinations, President Jacob Zuma of South Africa said on Tuesday. Zuma, who has visited Libya twice since March on behalf of the African Union (AU) to seek a solution to the civil war, said Nato had overstepped more...
Colonists want to come back: Mugabe
By Our reporter at May 4, 2011 | 1:24 AM | 0 Comment
THE forthcoming African Union Summit to be hosted by Equatorial Guinea next month is critical in light of the machinations by Western countries in North Africa and the return of colonists in full force, President Mugabe has said. He said this just before holding a closed door meeting with the special envoy from Equatorial Guinea President, State Secretary in Charge of more...
