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Zimbabwe parties split over Iranian’s visit

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:42:47 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Tsvangirai says the country should keep its distance Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ‘s visit to Harare, Zimbabwe met with a cheering Zanu-PF party welcome at the airport, while Morgan Tsvangirai’s shared government party, Movement for Democratic Change, has criticized the Iranian leader’s state visit. Ahmadinejad is officially opening the Zimbabwe International Agricultural Fair in Bulawayo. [...]

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Nestlé pressured into closing Zimbabwe factory

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:52:23 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Vevey, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Food multinational Nestlé says it has closed its milk production plant in Zimbabwe after the government pressured it to take milk from a non-contracted supplier 19 December during a surprise visit from government officials. Two days later, Monday, two of the plant’s managers were called into the Harare police station for [...]

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Other world news in brief

Sean Ecker — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:13:31 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The UN General Assembly has approved 114 to 18, with 44 abstentions, the controversial Goldstone report into atrocities in the Gaza war in the winter of 2008/09, and recommended that the Security Council act if both Israel and the Palestinians had not conducted their own investigations within three months. CNN, New York Times Honduras‘ former [...]

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Zimbabwe blocks entry to UN torture expert

Sean Ecker — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:25:33 +0000

GenevaLunch.com A UN official in charge of investigating charges of torture who was invited to Zimbabwe is on his way to Johannesburg, South Africa Thursday 29 October after being denied entry to the country at the airport in Harare. Manfred Nowak, the UN’s special rapporteur on torture, told reporters that his invitation had been rescinded by [...]

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Zimbabwe leaders fail to come to agreement: few options left

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:47:08 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai met for four hours, the first meeting since Tsvangirai pulled out of the coalition government in mid-October, and his spokesperson says the talks ended with no agreement. “We are worlds apart on fundamental issues,” the BBC quotes him as saying. The pullout and failed meeting effectively [...]

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Southern Africa grouping calls for end to Zimbabwe sanctions

Sean Ecker — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:11:04 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Southern African nations meeting in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo,8 September called for an end to Western sanctions on Zimbabwe. Sanctions have been in place since before a unity government was formed in 2008 with President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). The call to lift sanctions is [...]

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Zimbabwe Prime Minister Tsvangirai’s wife killed in car crash, PM in hospital

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:40:41 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Susan Tsvangirai, the wife of Zimbabwe’s prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, was dead at the scene of a crash that has put her husband in hospital in “stable” condition. The pair were traveling to a rally 60km from the capital, Harare, reports Al Jazeera, when they were hit by a “haulage truck” whose driver appears to [...]

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Tsvangirai says yes to unity govt in Zimbabwe

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:01:03 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Morgan Tsvangirai says his party will become part of a unity government when he is sworn in as prime minister of Zimbabwe 10 February, after the Southern African Development Community (SADC) proposed a new timetable. Aid agencies have refused to provide the country with more aid unless a unity government is in place: more than [...]

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Zimbabwe talks collapse

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:54:55 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Morgan Tsvangirai called it “the darkest day” while Robert Mugabe said he hoped for a new round of talk, but South African mediators say that 12 hours of final talks have led to no agreement. BBC