South Africa: Cabinet Says Region 'United' on Zimbabwe

The South African government said today that Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders are "united in their resolve" to help Zimbabweans find "a lasting… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Deploy Human Rights Monitors, Urges Group

A prominent human rights organisation has urged southern African heads of state meeting in Zambia this week to deploy human rights monitors in Zimbabwe. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Review of New CD by Lucky Moyo

This charming, vivid poetic and revolutionary CD captures the threats that cut across globe and race. “I Have Got Issues” can be compared to the biblical book of… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Protestors Demand Affordable Food

Hundreds of members of a Zimbabwe civic organisation held a peaceful demonstration over food supplies and prices in Sakubva, in the city of Mutare today. Read more »

Africa: Zimbabwe Crisis "Intolerable," Says Annan

Zimbabwe's "downward spiral" was "intolerable and unsustainable," former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in Johannesburg on Sunday. Read more »

Zimbabwe: U.S. 'Deplores' Mugabe Actions, Offers Food Aid

The United States on Tuesday announced the release of more food aid for Zimbabwe along with strong criticism of President Robert Mugabe's government. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Govt-Opposition Talks on Track, Says South Africa

South Africa's foreign ministry has rejected a newspaper report that Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has ordered negotiators for his ruling Zanu-PF party to boycott… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Central Bank Pleaded With Govt to Avoid Collapse - Report

Zimbabwe's central bank governor, Gideon Gono, has spent more than three years trying to persuade the government to change course and avoid economic collapse, the Mail and… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Rulers Employ 'Divide-and-Rule' Tactics - Report

Zimbabwe's rulers have adopted a deliberate strategy of exacerbating tensions between the two wings of the country's divided opposition, according to a new report by a… Read more »

Africa: Civil Society Discusses Darfur, Zimbabwe at Summit

African officials and members of civil society organizations across the continent have been debating the twin crises in Darfur, Sudan and Zimbabwe ahead of the African Union Summit… Read more »

Africa: Ethiopian, Zimbabwean Women Journalists Honored

The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) has honoured an Ethiopian publisher for her courage and a Zimbabwean reporter for her achievements in journalism over a period… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Parliament's Human Rights Probe to Continue, Says MP

The South African member of the Pan African Parliament who successfully proposed that the body should investigate reports of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe has denied that the… Read more »

Africa: AU Chair Urges Zimbabwe to Respect Law

The African Union chairman, President John Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana, has reiterated his concern at the recent behaviour of the Zimbabwe government. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Human Rights Lawyers Released

Two of Zimbabwe's top human rights lawyers were released on bail Monday, one day after a High Court Justice ordered their release. Read more »

Zimbabwe: "We Have Reached the Tipping Point"

Democracy advocates in southern Africa have been posing the question recently: When does Zimbabwe reach a "tipping point", where popular opposition to the regime of aging… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Tutu and Albright - A Cry for Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe, long plagued by the repressive leadership of President Robert Mugabe, has reached the point of crisis. Leaders of the democratic opposition were arrested and beaten, and… Read more »

Africa: Tutu Reflects - We Live in a Moral Universe; Zimbabwe Tests Our Resolve, Our Judgment

Nobel Peace Prizewinner, cleric and champion of justice for the world's poor: retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu still moves at a blistering pace, leaving aides and admirers… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Catholic Bishops Warn of Mass Uprising

The bishops of Zimbabwe's powerful Catholic Church have issued an unusually strongly-worded letter to their congregations drawing an analogy between the current struggle and the… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Doctor Describes Human Rights Horror

Tuesday's arrest of Movement for Democratic Change leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, boosted the expressions of international outrage that began accelerating in early March over the… Read more »

Southern Africa: Mbeki Heads For Regional Talks on Zimbabwe

President Thabo Mbeki will represent South Africa at this week's extraordinary high-level summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which is expected to discuss… Read more »

Zimbabwe: U.S. Says Mugabe 'Personally Responsible' for Attacks

The United States Government has said that it holds President Robert Mugabe "personally responsible" for the recent brutal attacks on opposition leaders. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Police Prevent Medical Evacuation of Tortured Leaders

Two women severely assaulted by police in last weekend's beating of opposition leaders in Harare, Zimbabwe, were prevented Saturday from traveling to South Africa for medical… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Africans Should 'Hang Heads in Shame' - Tutu

Africans should "hang our heads in shame" at this week's suppression of opposition protest in Zimbabwe, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa said today. Read more »

South Africa: Gov't Calls on Zimbabwe to Respect Law

Under fire for failing to speak out on human rights abuses in Zimbabwe, the South African government Tuesday night issued a cautiously-worded appeal for its neighbour to respect… Read more »

South Africa: Army Offers to Train Somali Troops

South Africa's defence minister, Mosiuoa Lekota said today that although the deployment of the country's troops as peacekeepers in Somalia was "improbable," the armed… Read more »