The Insider

Zimbabwe was ranked the riskiest investment destination in 2009 along with Afghanistan by United States credit rating company Dun and Bradstreet, according to one of the cables released by Wikileaks.

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Jestina Mukoko, the director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, said she was abducted from her home on 3 December 2008 by seven men who refused to identify themselves.

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At least 32 Movement for Democratic Change and civil society activists remained in custody though High Court judge Yunus Omerjee had ruled that police should immediately release 23 MDC and civil society members who had been located in police custody but were not subject to detention orders.

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At least 14 Movement for Democratic Change and civic activists were expected to spend the 2008 Christmas in jail or police cells, but what was more astonishing was that police were either refusing that they were detaining them or denying access to them.

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United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon criticised President Robert Mugabe for the crisis in Zimbabwe which had resulted in an outbreak of cholera in the country and accused him of not forthcoming to ask for help.

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Mutare acting regional magistrate Livingstone Chipadza, who had been arrested for sanctioning the release of deputy Minister of Agriculture-designate Roy Bennett, was acquitted of criminal abuse of duty.

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Attorney-general Johannes Tomana reasserted his legitimacy as the government’s top prosecutor when he responded to criticism from Finance Minister Tendai Biti and Minister of Information Communications Technology Nelson Chamisa who accused him of being “divisive” for refusing to release the passport of Movement for Democratic Change treasurer Roy Bennett.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s former spokesman George Sibotshiwe said he was afraid the Movement for Democratic Change leader might be losing support for failing to make progress on the outstanding issues in the Global Political Agreement.

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The prosecution of legislators from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change, which the party claimed was aimed at overturning its majority in the House of Assembly, was a futile exercise because eight of the 10 Members of Parliament from the smaller faction of the MDC were solidly behind the MDC-T.

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