ZIMBABWE’s MDC party, shocked by its overwhelming election defeat, has a battle on its hands to convince supporters it has any chance of taking power in the years to come.

Zimbabwe’s electoral panel declared that President Robert Mugabe has won re-election by a landslide, a result that could exacerbate tensions in the country.

President Robert Mugabe won the Zimbabwe presidential election with 61% of the vote, compared to 34% for challenger Morgan Tsvangirai, election officials said.

Prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai dismissed the election in Zimbabwe as a farce after his rival President Robert Mugabe’s party claimed a landslide victory that would secure another five years in power for Africa’s oldest head of state.

The main challenger to Zimbabwe’s long-time president, Robert Mugabe, says the election there is “null and void” due to alleged violations in the voting process.

Robert Mugabe’s party says it has withdrawn an unauthorised message on its Twitter feed claiming a resounding victory in Zimbabwe’s national elections.

Zimbabwean prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai says long-time ruler Robert Mugabe is ready to give up power if he loses the next election.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay arrived in Zimbabwe on the first mission to the troubled southern African nation by the world rights chief.

Zimbabwe’s president, appearing uncharacteristically conciliatory, said political violence must be “buried in the past” to move the nation toward free and unhindered elections.

Mass evictions in Zimbabwe six years ago have left thousands of displaced children without education and even forced some to seek work in the sex industry to support their families, rights group Amnesty International said today.

Twelve visibly wounded suspects accused of killing a police inspector have appeared in a Zimbabwe court, and their lawyer said they were tortured repeatedly by police in jail.

The failing health of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe could jeopardise efforts to resolve his nation's political crisis, South Africa's ruling party said.

Robert Mugabe has threatened to seize British businesses in retaliation for Western economic sanctions targeting him and his supporters over alleged human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe’s prime minister has been accused by state-run radio of trying to spark anti-government uprisings similar to those seen in Tunisia and Egypt.

Zimbabwe’s 86-year-old President Robert Mugabe denies having been gravely ill and describes reports that he recently underwent surgery in Malaysia as “naked lies crafted by the Western-manipulated media”, state radio reported.

Zimbabwe’s prime minister filed a lawsuit against President Robert Mugabe today, alleging he violated the constitution and a power-sharing agreement.

A world diamond network has vowed to expel any member who knowingly trades gems from two Zimbabwe mines where labourers have been killed and children enslaved.

A judge today acquitted a senior prime minister’s aide of all charges in a terrorism case that had strained Zimbabwe’s struggling coalition government since it was forged more than a year ago.

Zimbabwe’s prime minister said he would run against Robert Mugabe in presidential elections expected next year and called for an army of peacekeepers to protect voters.

Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe said he planned to regain his hold over the country he has ruled for nearly three decades.

The United Nations’ torture investigator blamed Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe for banning him from entering the country today.

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.

IN a bid to end feuding between Zimbabwe’s coalition partners, South African president Jacob Zuma met president Robert Mugabe and other leaders and appeared cautiously optimistic that their differences could be resolved.

Zimbabwean generals, known as hard-line supporters of President Robert Mugabe, today saluted former opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

Zimbabwe’s prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai has made fun of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s flagging political fortunes during a visit to the US.

In an impassioned appeal, Zimbabwe’s long-suffering Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai called for people to get over their obsession with his long-time enemy, President Robert Mugabe.

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 top bank official today admitted secretly raiding private accounts for hard cash to keep the country running.

A small church service was under way in Zimbabwe today for the wife of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who was killed in a car crash last week.

Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said today there was “no foul play” involved in a car accident that killed his wife and injured him.

Zimbabwe’s prime minister was heading home to resume his duties today after receiving medical treatment in Botswana.

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.

Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe has sent prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s family condolences after his wife was killed in a crash, state radio reported tonight.

Zimbabwean prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai today left the hospital where he was treated after a car crash that killed his wife.

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.

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai may be released from hospital today, a doctor said, a day after a crash with a truck carrying US aid in which his wife was killed.

Zimbabwean prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai was injured in a car crash on the outskirts of the capital today and his wife was killed, officials said.

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

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said today that land seizures would continue, and he called for the country’s last white farmers to leave.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is celebrating his 85th birthday with a lavish bash while the new unity government tries to raise funds to rescue the country’s collapsed economy.

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.