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The Insider has added seven more Wikileaks cables on Zimbabwe bringing our total to 55. Our cable search indicates that Wikileaks has now released 115 cables that mention Zimbabwe, some…

This is what we thought 11 years ago when the Movement for Democratic Change inflicted its first victory over the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front in the referendum for…

The signing of the Global Political Agreement by Zimbabwe’s three key political parties -the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change may have saved Zimbabwe from tougher European Union sanctions according to a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change may be using the constitutional drafting process to delay elections because it has realised that though it won more seats in the 2008 elections than its main rival the Zimbabwe African People Union- Patriotic Front most people do not share its views on the new constitution. 

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Rwandan leader Paul Kagame was warned eight years ago not to go the Robert Mugabe way when he won his second term of office as the country’s president but last year he contested the elections and won another seven-year term.

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Zimbabwe has the third highest number of asylum seekers in the United Kingdom, after Afghanistan and Iraq, according to figures released this week. The figures were for the 10 year period from 2001 to 2010.

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Britain had no say over President Robert Mugabe’s recent visit to Rome where he attended the beatification of Pope John Paul 11 because the Holy See is not a member of the European Union and the Vatican has bilateral relations with Zimbabwe.

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India refused to endorse a statement by the Community of Democracies condemning Zimbabwe’s 2008 elections which appeared to have been spearheaded by the United States and went on to withdraw its support for a Diplomat’s Handbook which it had earlier endorsed.

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The black and white television set that has been my faithful partner for the past 17 years has just packed up. But I cannot send it for repairs because nominally…

Britain is committed to European Union sanctions on Zimbabwe and will not be “shifted by coerced signatures on a partisan petition”, the Minister for Europe David Liddington told the House of Commons.

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