Douglas Rogers

Zimbabwe police raided a house used by executives of prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party, saying they were searching for weapons, the country’s finance minister said today.

ZIMBABWE’S prime minister yesterday withdrew, at least temporarily, from a coalition government with hard-line President Robert Mugabe, setting back already troubled efforts to end Zimbabwe’s political and economic crises and international isolation.

Zimbabwe’s prime minister is to boycott the country’s troubled unity government over the “persecution” of a top aide being tried on trumped up coup charges.

ZIMBABWE’s government has ordered all state schools to slash their fees as it struggles with an economic crisis desperately crying out for massive foreign aid, a local official newspaper said yesterday.

Zimbabwe’s prime minister has left the country for medical treatment after he was injured in a car crash that killed his wife, state media reported today.

The Zimbabwean prime minister’s party today called for an investigation into the car crash that injured Morgan Tsvangirai and killed his wife, but warned Zimbabweans not to jump to conclusions about the cause.

The wife of Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was killed in a car crash today.

PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday said a national unity government was “the only way out” of Zimbabwe’s crises and urged the international community to support it.

A leading aide of Zimbabwe prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai was charged with terrorism today in what was widely seen as a plot to wreck the country’s new coalition government.

ZIMBABWEAN opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday appointed Tendai Biti to be finance minister in a unity government with President Robert Mugabe.

Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will become prime minister tomorrow as part of a power-sharing agreement with president Robert Mugabe the country hopes will help solve its growing crisis.

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe today risked a Western backlash by declaring he was ready to form a government on his own if the opposition refused to join him in power-sharing.

Southern African leaders ended an all-night summit on forming a unity government in Zimbabwe but the regional leaders and representatives of Zimbabwe’s opposition disagreed on the results.

ZIMBABWE’S opposition MDC insisted yesterday an “equitable” sharing of powerful ministries and the resolution of other outstanding political issues were key to the formation of a unity government.

A Zimbabwean human rights activist missing for three weeks was taken to court accused, according to state media, of plotting to overthrow President Robert Mugabe.

A Zimbabwean human rights activist missing for three weeks suddenly appeared in court today accused of plotting to overthrow President Robert Mugabe.

British-based exiles from Zimbabwe will today stage a dramatic tableau outside the country's embassy in London depicting its president as a twisted Father Christmas who deals out disease and death.

A defiant Robert Mugabe today boasted that no other African country had the courage to remove him from power.

ZIMBABWE’s neighbours will launch an urgent humanitarian campaign in the hope of saving the country from economic collapse and a cholera epidemic, South African president Kgalema Motlanthe said yesterday.

ZIMBABWE’S opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) may boycott a meeting to discuss a constitutional bill that would allow President Robert Mugabe to form a unity government, an opposition official said.

Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will attend a summit in Harare next week aimed at saving an agreement to form a unity government with President Robert Mugabe, a spokesman said yesterday.

ZIMBABWE’s parties are close to breaking a deadlock over power-sharing at talks between President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition MDC said yesterday.

ZIMBABWEAN president Robert Mugabe has sworn in two vice presidents ahead of talks on forming a cabinet, a government official has said, a move that could further endanger power-sharing negotiations.

ZIMBABWE’S inflation rate soared to 231 million per cent, but the country’s economic and political crisis showed no sign of ending as the opposition MDC declared a deadlock in power-sharing talks.

I WISH to emphasise the grave situation facing all Zimbabweans around the world now.

The North is not ready to take over policing powers which could salvage the power-sharing government, the Alliance Party claimed today.

Britain today gave a cautious welcome to a power-sharing deal signed today between political rivals in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe today looked to be on the brink of an historic power-sharing deal that could finally end Robert Mugabe’s 28-year monopoly on power in the country.

The main opposition leader in Zimbabwe has said that if Robert Mugabe cannot agree at the negotiating table to surrender most of his powers, he should put the decision to his people in a new election, the main opposition leader said.

ZIMBABWE’S main opposition party said yesterday the latest talks on power-sharing with the ruling ZANU-PF that resumed on Friday in South Africa did not reach agreement.

ZIMBABWE’s opposition won the vote for speaker of the first parliament since disputed elections in March — apparently claiming votes even from the ruling party of autocratic President Robert Mugabe yesterday amid stalled talks over sharing power.

The candidate for Zimbabwe’s main opposition party was given the top job in parliament today after MPs were sworn in some five months after they were elected.

Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe intends to open parliament next week for the first time since MPs were elected four months ago, threatening to undermine power-sharing talks.

South African president Thabo Mbeki, mediating in Zimbabwe’s post-election crisis, will travel to Harare today amid growing optimism a power-sharing deal can be reached between the ruling party and opposition.

ZIMBABWE’S opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will run the country under a mooted draft agreement while President Robert Mugabe will become ceremonial president, a South African newspaper reported yesterday.

ZIMBABWE’s rival parties resumed power-sharing talks yesterday, a day ahead of the expiry of a deadline to conclude discussions to end a ruinous political crisis.

Senior negotiators from Zimbabwe’s main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and the ruling ZANU-PF party began talks yesterday and a report indicated they were close to reaching a deal on forming a unity government.

ZIMBABWE’s rival parties have moved closer to a deal to allow fully fledged talks on the country’s crisis, state media said yesterday, after sanctions against Robert Mugabe’s regime were vetoed at the UN.

Zimbabwean government and opposition officials met in South Africa in a bid to find a way out of their country’s troubles following the recent presidential election run-off.

Zimbabwean government and opposition officials met in South Africa today to try to find a way out of their country’s deadly crisis.

Zimbabwe’s opposition party today denied state media reports that it will hold talks with Robert Mugabe’s ruling party.

Zimbabwe’s political leaders clashed today over whether to talk about how to resolve the country’s crisis as the US called for UN sanctions against President Robert Mugabe and his officials.

Robert Mugabe will face pressure from African leaders to agree a power-sharing deal in Zimbabwe today, after claiming victory in an internationally-condemned unopposed election.