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Zimbabwe judge: Torture can be raised in case

HARARE, Zimbabwe—Defense lawyers for a top prime minister's aide can raise torture allegations at his trial, a judge ruled Wednesday in a case that has shaken Zimbabwe's troubled coalition government. Judge Chinembiri Bhunu also ruled that a weapons ...

From ANGUS SHAW, Boston Globe,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Roy Bennett,  Morgan Tsvangirai,  Robert Mugabe

Trial for top Zimbabwean PM's aide gets under way

HARARE, Zimbabwe - The judge should not allow a top Zimbabwean prime minister's aide to argue that evidence against him in his weapons case was obtained through torture, prosecutors said at the start of the trial Monday. ...

From ANGUS SHAW, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Morgan Tsvangirai,  Roy Bennett,  Robert Mugabe,  Movement for Democratic Change

Zimbabwe: Regional summit set for Thursday

Zimbabwe's neighbors will hold a summit this week to try to break an impasse that threatens the southern African nation's unity government, a spokesman for Zimbabwe's prime minister said Monday. President Robert Mugabe, accused by the premier of ...

From ANGUS SHAW, eTaiwan News,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert Mugabe,  Morgan Tsvangirai,  Joseph Kabila

Zimbabwe: Mugabe takes sharp dig at Tsvangirai

Speaking Saturday at the state funeral of a former guerrilla leader who fought for independence from Britain in 1980, Mugabe, speaking of Tsvangirai's temporary withdrawal from the Cabinet, said: "Even if some person is not mentally stable he is still ...

From ANGUS SHAW, San Francisco Chronicle,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Movement for Democratic Change,  European Union,  International Monetary Fund,  World Bank,  United Nations

Zimbabwe foreign minister: UN trip a 'provocation'

Zimbabwe's foreign minister is calling a visit by the U.N. torture investigator "a provocation of the highest order." The foreign minister, a ranking member of President Robert Mugabe's party, on Friday sharply criticized Manfred Nowak for coming to ...

From ANGUS SHAW, TheNewsTribune.com,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Morgan Tsvangirai,  Manfred Nowak,  Robert Mugabe,  Human Rights Watch

Zimbabwe freezes assets of top company

The government has frozen the assets of one of Zimbabwe's oldest and largest companies, and the family behind the conglomerate suspects the action was taken to preserve the job of its CEO, who is close to President Robert Mugabe's party. The ...

From ANGUS SHAW, Taiwan News,  19 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Robert Mugabe,  Morgan Tsvangirai

Lawyer: Boardroom spat behind trouble in Zimbabwe

HARARE, Zimbabwe—The family behind one of Zimbabwe's oldest and largest companies believes a dispute with a businessman close to President Robert Mugabe's party has led the government to freeze the conglomerate's assets. The move comes as Zimbabwe ...

From ANGUS SHAW, Boston Globe,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Robert Mugabe,  Morgan Tsvangirai

President Mugabe calls for investment in Zimbabwe

President Robert Mugabe told businessmen Wednesday that their potential investments in Zimbabwe would be safe, while the finance minister announced the country is $5.7 billion in debt. Mugabe, opening a two-day meeting on investment in the once ...

From ANGUS SHAW, Taiwan News,  16 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Robert Mugabe,  International Monetary Fund,  Morgan Tsvangirai,  European Union,  Tendai Biti

Zimbabwe deal leads to few changes for pupils

HIGHFIELD, Zimbabwe—Stinking waste flows into the yard from the classroom toilets of B Block. Teachers hold lessons in the shade of trees outside: Much of the schoolroom furniture is piled into heaps of broken wood. Mutasa junior school was once the ...

From ANGUS SHAW, Boston Globe,  15 Sep 2009

Related Topics: David Coltart,  Robert Mugabe,  Morgan Tsvangirai,  United Nations,  UNICEF

The 'Zimdollar:' dead, but still used for bus fare

A woman pays her bus fare with 3 trillion in old Zimbabwe dollars - the equivalent of US$0.50. The collector accepts the brick of neatly folded bundles of a trillion each without bothering to count the notes. A minibus driver counts his ...

From ANGUS SHAW, Taiwan News,  16 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Robert Mugabe,  Tendai Biti

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