Tsvangirai survives car crash, wife killedHARARE - Zimbabwe’s new prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai was injured in a car crash that killed his wife Susan late Friday, confirmed party officials, who cited the suspicious circumstances as a possible indication of foul play. Zimbabwean prime minister injured, wife killed in car crashHARARE - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was injured and his wife Susan died in a car crash Friday, party officials have confirmed. Tsvangirai urges the West to fund power-sharing governmentHARARE - Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai Sunday made an impassioned appeal to the international community to fund the country’s new coalition government, calling the situation in the hunger- and disease-wracked country ‘dire’. Loyalists praise Mugabe as he turns 85JOHANNESBURG/HARARE - State media and party loyalists in Zimbabwe praised President Robert Mugabe as he turned 85 Saturday, with a lavish party and banquet planned for next week. Zimbabwean unity government sealed amid climate of distrustHARARE - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe swore some of his fiercest critics into a power-sharing government Friday, sealing the beginning of a reluctant union which Zimbabweans hope will end the country’s economic crisis. Zimbabwe’s deputy minister appointee arrestedHARARE - Roy Bennett, a former white farmer appointed deputy agriculture minister in Zimbabwe’s power-sharing government, was arrested Friday, a spokesman for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party said. Zimbabwe civil servants to get salary in foreign currencyHARARE - Zimbabwe’s new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said that starting this month all civil servants would be paid in foreign currency. Tsvangirai sworn in as Zimbabwe’s prime ministerHARARE - Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change, was sworn in Wednesday as prime minister in a unity government. Tsvangirai sworn in as Zimbabwe’s prime ministerHARARE - In an historic development, Zimbabwe’s longtime opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was Wednesday sworn in as prime minister of a unity government headed by his arch-rival, President Robert Mugabe. Tsvangirai promises change in ZimbabweHARARE/JOHANNESBURG - Following his historic swearing-in as prime minister, Zimbabwe’s former longtime opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai Wednesday pledged to work towards ending his country’s humanitarian crisis and called for a process of national healing. Zimbabwean currency reduced by trillion to oneHARARE - Zimbabwe’s central bank slashed another 12 zeroes off the country’s worthless currency Monday, shrinking 1 trillion Zimbabwe dollars into a single Zimbabwe dollar. Zimbabwe’s MDC signs up to join Mugabe-led governmentHARARE - Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Friday voted to go into government with President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party, ending the party’s nearly five-month campaign for a more equitable power-sharing deal. Zimbabwe opposition leader confirms joining unity governmentHARARE - Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader, Thursday confirmed he would join a unity government led by President Robert Mugabe, according to media reports. Pay US dollars in Zimbabwe, but don’t expect changeHARARE - At each till in a large supermarket in the upmarket Avondale suburb of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare is a small, much-handled cardboard tray containing boiled sweets, boxes of matches and a few loose eggs. Zimbabwe’s opposition says power-sharing ‘political suicide’HARARE - Zimbabwe’s opposition said Sunday it will not ‘commit political suicide’ by entering into a government with President Robert Mugabe without the power to deliver change. Zimbabwe unveils 100 trillion dollar banknoteHARARE - The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has introduced a new family of trillion Zim-dollar banknotes in denominations of 100 trillion, 50 trillion, 20 trillion and 10 trillion that went into circulation Friday, starting with the 10 trillion notes, a media report said. Zimbabwe court blasts leaders for worsening economyHARARE/JOHANNESBURG - The protracted wrangling by Zimbabwe’s political leaders is furthering the deterioration of the nation’s economy, Zimbabwe’s high court head said Monday. Mugabe to form government without opposition: ReportHARARE - Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has hinted that he will soon form a government even if the country’s opposition leader does not become part of it, a state-run newspaper reported Saturday. |