News about Zimbabwe that you can use
The Daily News applauded the Southern African Development Community’s decision to block President Robert Mugabe from the SADC chairmanship saying the regional organisation had seen the light at last.
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It was an elaborate dress rehearsal. Everything was planned to the last detail. There would be 12 to 15 journalists. The two United States diplomats would sit as planned with the US and Zimbabwe flags behind them. The press would be seated in a semi-circle because the effect sought was conversational.
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All journalists were removed from the European Union sanctions list last week but there were also some surprise removals. Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front spokesman Rugare Gumbo was, for example, removed while “self appointed Anglican bishop” Norbert Kunonga remained on the list.
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President Robert Mugabe and 111 others remain on the European Union sanctions list for the coming year. There are also 11 companies, mostly associated with the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front, on the list.
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British Foreign Minister William Hague yesterday said his country would create 125 000 new jobs in Zimbabwe over the next four years but said sanctions will continue because political reforms remain slow and politically motivated looting, violence and intimidation continue.
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A British non-governmental organisation Global Witness says the government should cancel the contract of diamond miner Anjin, a joint venture between a Chinese and a Zimbabwean company.
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The International Monetary Fund warned that Zimbabwe’s fragile economic recovery could be derailed by mismanagement at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.
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President Robert Mugabe’s: “So Blair, keep your England and let me keep my Zimbabwe,” speech at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, received mixed reaction from the country’s two leading dailies.
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The World Summit on Sustainable Development was going to be another useless talk shop as people like President Robert Mugabe were going to talk about eradicating poverty and disease and empowering their nations and protecting the country’s national resources yet back home he would be all out to crush opponents and all voices of democracy.
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The Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front newspaper, The People’s Voice, called it American madness. But it warned that no Western power was mighty enough to intimidate the heroic people of Zimbabwe.
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