20120104 AFP Zimbabwe police blocked an annual retreat of Anglican priests, invoking a security law that bars public gatherings without official clearance, a church spokesman said Tuesday.
20111227 AP HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwean state radio says 11 people died, most of them children, in a Christmas Day boating accident on a lake outside the capital.
20111212 Reuters (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was endorsed again by his party to stand for elections expected next year, but analysts say even for a veteran political survivor, the 87-year-old leader will find it harder to convince voters to extend his rule after 32 years in power.
20111211 Reuters (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's 87-year-old president Robert Mugabe on Saturday brushed aside calls to step down, telling supporters who endorsed him as candidate in the next presidential election that he would not quit as long as the West maintained sanctions on his party.
20111122 Reuters (Reuters) - More than a million people in Zimbabwe will require food aid between now and March 2012, a United Nations agency said Monday, despite recent improvements in the country's grain production.
20111117 Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe won praise on Wednesday as a great African figure and "old friend" of Beijing, underscoring China's commitment to boosting business ties to a leader shunned by Western governments.
20111103 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States agreed to a compromise allowing Zimbabwe to export diamonds that human rights groups say are tainted by abuses, to prevent the paralysis of the global system for stopping trade in "blood diamonds," the State Department said on Wednesday.
20111103 Reuters HARARE (Reuters) - Political violence is on the increase in Zimbabwe and supporters of President Robert Mugabe and state security agents are to blame, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Wednesday.
20111010 Reuters HARARE (Reuters) - The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams on Sunday issued a strong criticism of the government of Robert Mugabe and told thousands of cheering Anglican members in Harare not to retaliate against attacks on the church in Zimbabwe.
20111009 Reuters HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will question the Anglican Church's silence on Western sanctions against him and its position on homosexuality, and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will press him to end violent suppression of the church and its priests at a meeting expected on Monday.
20111007 Reuters HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Thursday said the country's coalition government was illegitimate and needed to give way to an elected administration, but said he could not determine when a fresh vote could be held.
20111007 Reuters BLANTYRE (Reuters) - The Archbishop Bishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, wants to meet Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe during his visit to Africa and call on him to end a violent suppression of the Anglican Church and its priests in the country.
20111006 Reuters HARARE (Reuters) - Six year after Zimbabwe's mass slum clearance evicted 700,000 people, many of the children of those made homeless have yet to return to school, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
20110930 Reuters HARARE (Reuters) - Mining firms in Zimbabwe have mostly met a September deadline by which they were required to submit plans to transfer a 51 percent stake in their operations to locals, empowerment minister Saviour Kasukuwere said on Thursday.
20110914 Reuters HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's empowerment minister, who has been leading a drive to force foreign miners to give 51 percent stakes to locals, told a mining conference on Wednesday the law could be waived.
20110914 Reuters HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe had no intention to cancel the mining licences of foreign mining groups and will continue talks with some miners over a law requiring them to give Zimbabweans a 51 percent stake in their local holdings, the country's mines minister said on Wednesday.
20110913 Reuters HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe and Zimplats, the local unit of the world's second-largest platinum producer Impala Platinum, said on Tuesday they had agreed to produce a revised plan for a law requiring mining firms to turn over a 51 percent stake to local blacks.
20110831 Reuters HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe needs $13 billion -- about double its estimated GDP -- to revive its dilapidated energy sector, but is still a "long way" from having a normal relationship with the World Bank, a senior bank official said on Wednesday.
20110820 Reuters HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government has given foreign companies including miners and banks a 14-day ultimatum to submit plans on how they propose to transfer majority stakes to local owners or risk losing permits, state media reported on Friday.
20110817 Reuters HARARE (Reuters) - A retired Zimbabwean army general and key figure in internal battles over President Robert Mugabe's succession in his ZANU-PF party has died in a fire at his farmhouse, government officials said on Tuesday.
