Zimbabwe Insider - Part 1538

  • Mugabe has a shouting match with UN envoy

    President Robert Mugabe had a 20-minute shouting match with the United Nations under-secretary-general for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief coordinator Jan Egeland over Operation Murambatsvina...

  • UK minister says there is progress in Zimbabwe

    The reform process in Zimbabwe was progressing although movement was slow and was quite often obscured by events, Britain’s Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign...

  • Chombo fires Mutare mayor

    Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo on 22 July fired Mutare mayor Misheck Kagurabadza for allegedly misusing public funds, but the mayor said he had been...

  • Clean up continues despite Chombo’s promise

    Demolitions of structures, including an industrial complex in Harare, continued under Operation Restore Order despite an undertaking by Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo that the...

  • Zimbabweans can vote in the UK

    Zimbabweans can vote in the United Kingdom even though the country withdrew from the Commonwealth, according to Lord McNally, British Minister of State for Justice....

  • Chombo stops Murambatsvina

    Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo announced on 15 July 2005, that the government was halting Operation Restore Order (Murambatsvina) for 10 days to allow low-density...