20100527
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Zimbabwe's newly created media commission said Wednesday licenses have been granted to allow four new private daily newspapers to start operating, in the first concrete move to relax tough media rules.

"The Zimbabwe Media Commission is committed to the establishment of a free media that is a market place where citizens have easy access to a wide range of quality information," said the commission's chairman Godfrey Majonga.

20100523
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Harare — PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has written a strongly worded letter to President Robert Mugabe warning him that he risks plunging the country into a constitutional crisis following his unilateral appointment of three High Court judges last week.

Sources said Tsvangirai's letter was delivered on Friday, a day after Mugabe appointed controversial former Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairman, George Chiweshe, the Judge President of the High Court.(20100522)