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At last, some good news from Zimbabwe

March 30, 2009 12:51Updated May 30, 2010 12:47
HARARE, Zimbabwe — At last, some good news from Zimbabwe. Inflation has plummeted and prices now appear stable. And the cholera epidemic has peaked, although it has already taken more than 4,000 lives and is expected to kill hundreds more before it is fully controlled.

Car crash kills wife of Zimbabwe's new prime minister

March 6, 2009 16:11
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Susan Tsvangirai, a great support to her husband, was killed in a car accident Friday.

Doctors Without Borders: Zimbabwe restricting access

Elizabeth Chiles ShelburneMarch 5, 2009 22:01Updated May 30, 2010 12:46
BOSTON — As Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic spins "out of control," the group Doctors Without Borders took the unprecedented step of of criticizing President Robert Mugabe's government. The group's president Christoph Fournier, who recently returned from Zimbabwe, urged the government to provide "unrestricted access" for aid organizations to carry out their work.

Mugabe has cake and eats it while much of Zimbabwe goes hungry

March 1, 2009 16:53
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Robert Mugabe had his cake and ate it, too, as you can see from this photograph. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters). In fact it was a cake weighing 187 pounds and painted like a Zimbabwe flag. It was for Mugabe's 85th birthday party held over the weekend in the northwestern town of Chinhoyi, near the president's birthplace, Zvimba. More than 3,000 attended the festivities.

Zimbabwe GlobalPost Correspondent

December 13, 2008 19:18
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November 3, 2008 19:45
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Robert Mugabe agrees to change election date: report

June 17, 2013 02:05
The 15-country Southern Africa Development Community on Saturday called on Mugabe to delay the elections and make sure there was enough time to enact reforms that would ensure the polls are free and fair.

Zimbabwe has slim chances of holding free and fair elections: HRW

June 5, 2013 10:38
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Zimbabwe’s chances of holding free and fair elections are 'slim' unless the state security sector is reformed, Human Rights Watch has said in a report documenting abuses ahead of upcoming polls.

Zimbabwe court orders elections held by July 31

May 31, 2013 12:26
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"The elections should take place no later than 31st July 2013," the court's Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku said.

Zimbabwe: Trouble ahead, trouble behind

June 2, 2013 08:58
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JOHANNESBURG — With elections looming in Zimbabwe, the country’s top human rights defender is mired in an unprecedented position: having to defend herself.
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