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Villagers from Marange who have been displaced by diamond mining operations have been short-changed by the mining companies as they have not yet provided them with alternative accommodation.

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President Robert Mugabe is aiming. He wants to win the elections at the end of this month by 90 percent in what he said was a do-or die struggle. And if he was genuine, he was letting the people decide, peacefully.

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The scenarios are almost the same. In 2005 the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front went to the polls quite aware that there was a possibility it could lose following its near defeat in 2000. It is going to the 2013 polls quite aware that it lost the 2008 polls.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti, who says the government has no money for the elections due at the end of this month, is partly to blame for the lack of revenue from the country’s diamond operations.

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African giant pouched rats are being used to detect tuberculosis in Tanzania and they are faster than technicians. They can do what a technician takes the whole day to do in just seven minutes.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change says it does not agree with the Constitutional Court’s decision to have elections on 31 July because it subordinated key constitutional provisions to a date instead of subordinating the date to key constitutional provisions.

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The Constitutional Court today stuck by its previous ruling and ordered that elections be held on 31 July. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s spokesman Luke Tamborinyoka has accepted the court ruling.

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Zimbabwe activist Priscilla Misihairabwi Mushonga has come up with a simple plan to get men to vote. Women should just deny their partners sex unless they register to vote.

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British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday his government would use its leverage and influence to secure a proper election and a proper democratic transition in Zimbabwe.

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