Posts Tagged ‘zimbabwe’
Saturday, May 26th, 2012
BBC Radio 3 classical music presenter Petroc Trelawny is arrested in Zimbabwe for not having a work permit.

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BBC presenter held in Zimbabwe
Tags: arrest, arrested, bbc, Classical music, Law, petroc, petroc-trelawny, Radio, zimbabwe
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
Faced with high shipping costs, Zimbabwe hardly has any coins, making it a headache for millions of people to try to get every transaction to add up to a whole dollar.
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Using U.S. Dollars, Zimbabwe Finds a Problem: No Change
Tags: action, border, coin, cost, currency, dollar, ebay inc|ebay|nasdaq, get-every, inflation (economics), king, nsa, shipping-costs, us dollar (currency), zimbabwe
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Friday, January 6th, 2012
Ever since President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe began to control the diamond mines on the Mozambique border, the nearby towns have become shadows of what they once were.
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Diamond Crackdown in Mozambique Leaves Smugglers Behind
Tags: become-shadows, border, control-the-diamond, Diamond, diamond-mines, diamonds, mozambique, mugabe, zimbabwe
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
An MP is freed in Zimbabwe after spending Christmas in jail for allegedly saying President Robert Mugabe had had gay sex, local media report.
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MP freed after ‘Mugabe gay’ jibe
Tags: christmas, gay, local-media, Media, mugabe, president, zimbabwe
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Friday, November 11th, 2011
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai call for political violence to end, as tension rises ahead of elections.

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Zimbabwean rivals call for peace
Tags: election, morgan, mugabe, political-violence, president, prime-minister, rise, tension, zimbabwe
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Monday, October 10th, 2011
The Archbishop of Canterbury is meeting the Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in Harare, Lambeth Palace says, ending doubts it would take place.
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Archbishop in meeting with Mugabe
Tags: archbishop, doubts, ending-doubts, lambeth, lambeth-palace, meeting-the-zimbabwean, mugabe, president, president-robert, robert, zimbabwe, zimbabwean
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011
The Archbishop of Canterbury requests a meeting with President Robert Mugabe amid reports of violence against Anglicans in Zimbabwe.

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Archbishop seeks Mugabe meeting
Tags: amid-reports, archbishop, mugabe, president, president-robert, violence, zimbabwe
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
A senior army officer in Zimbabwe accuses Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of being a security threat after he urged military chiefs to stay out of politics.

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Zimbabwe PM ‘a security threat’
Tags: army, military, morgan, morgan-tsvangirai, officer, Politics, prime, prime-minister, sec, Security, security-threat, senior-army, stay-out, threat, zimbabwe
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Monday, June 6th, 2011
A leaked version of Zimbabwe’s voters’ roll contains 2.5m too many names, including four times more centenarians than live in the UK, finds a South African study.

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Zimbabwe ‘phantom voters’ exposed
Tags: africa, leak, roll-contains, south, south-africa, voters, zimbabwe
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Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Even as Zimbabwe’s president boasts that he will live to 100, officials in his party and in South Africa worry about what will happen if he dies in office.
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Health in Doubt, Mugabe, 87, Vows to Stay in Power
Tags: cia, even-as-zimbabwe, mugabe, robert, president, president-boasts, south-africa, zimbabwe
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Saturday, April 9th, 2011
President Robert Mugabe’s party is pushing for a quick election because of fears that the health of Mr. Mugabe, 87, is ebbing.
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Allies of Zimbabwe’s President Push for Quick Vote
Tags: border, election, Health, mugabe, mugabe, robert, politics and government, president, president-robert, quick-election, robert, the-health, tsvangirai, morgan, zimbabwe
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Friday, March 25th, 2011
One of the ministers in charge of Zimbabwe’s police tells the BBC she is in hiding for fear she would be arrested as part of a Zanu-PF plot against the MDC.

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Zimbabwe MDC minister ‘in hiding’
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
The leaders of Uganda, Zimbabwe and South Africa condemn the air strikes on Libya, saying the West is employing double-standards.

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Africa leaders attack Libya raids
Tags: africa, condemn-the-air, leader, south, south-africa, strikes, uganda, west, zimbabwe
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Thursday, March 17th, 2011
A Zimbabwe court grants bail to six activists accused of treason for attending a lecture about the Egypt uprising but they remain in custody while they raise the money.

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Zimbabwe ‘Egypt’ activists bailed
Tags: activists, court-grants, egypt, gypt, mai, Money, zimbabwe
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Friday, March 11th, 2011
With the arrest of an official from the party opposed to Robert Mugabe, power-sharing was deteriorating.
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Arrest Imperils Power-Sharing Government in Zimbabwe
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