News about Zimbabwe that you can use
A dozen lieutenants of President Robert Mugabe were busting United States sanctions through safari operations which generated $17.5 million in 2004 despite a 50 percent decline in tourism.
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Former United Nations Development Programme representative to Zimbabwe Victor Angelo said a growing number of people within the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front realised that the party was on a suicidal path but they were not willing to stand up to President Robert Mugabe.
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Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo, Mashonaland Central governor Border Gezi and Mashonaland West governor Peter Chanetsa embarked on an unprecedented wave of violence in the run-up to the 2000 parliamentary elections to gain favour with President Robert Mugabe, a cable released by Wikileaks says.
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Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo refused to fire Movement for Democratic Change councillors from Chitungwiza after the party had dismissed all 23 for corruption, breach of the party’s charter and insubordination.
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United States embassy officials in Harare were aware that Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo had two “wives” almost five years before his acrimonious divorce with his first wife Marian. Both wives were on the United States sanctions list way back in 2005.
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Leaked documents that were circulating in March 2003 listed Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo as one of the top officials of the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front who had received more than one farm under the controversial land reform programme.
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Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo is named as one of the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front hardliners who were either enriching themselves from the government’s interventionist policies way back in 2003 or were unwilling to put pressure on Mugabe to make a change.
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Zimbabwe had laws regulating everything and anyone could be prosecuted for anything if someone put his mind to it, the World Food Programme country director for Zimbabwe Felix Bamezon said.
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Movement for Democratic Change treasurer Roy Bennett said President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front did not create the culture of a privileged few lording it over the masses.
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