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Zimbabwean government bank balance 'down to $217'

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By David Smith - Jan. 30 - Finance minister tells journalists some of them have healthier accounts than the state Two hundred and seventeen US dollars – the equivalent of £138. That is all that remains in the public account of the Zimbabwean government, a bewildered finance minister announced on Tuesday. The paltry amount cast doubt over claims of a slow economic recovery and raised fresh questions about the fate of the country's diamond revenues – officials say almost $685m worth were sold last year. "Last week when we paid civil servants there was $217 [left] in government coffers," Tendai Biti, the finance minster, told journalists in the capital Harare, noting that some of them have healthier bank balances than the state. "The government finances are in a paralysis state at the present moment. We are failing to meet our targets." Zimbabwe's elections agency has said it needs $104m (£66m) to organise polls this year. Biti added: "The government has no money for elections … We will be approaching the ...

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At Year's End, News of a Global Health Success

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Tina Rosenberg - Dec. 19 (Opinion) - The stunning drop in global child mortality is proof that poor countries are not doomed to eternal misery. Here's how it happened.

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South Africa Since Mandela

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By BILL KELLER - Dec. 17 (Opinion) - The country is still making the transition from liberation movement to government.

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Documentary makers join forces to expose the evil of global poverty

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Killian Fox - Nov. 18 (Special Report) - Directors of films in the forthcoming BBC series Why Poverty? explain how they tackled the subject and what it taught them Are US billionaires destroying the American Dream? Can large-scale agricultural development have a positive effect in Africa? Are Bono and Bob Geldof actually doing any good? And can the history of human poverty over 10,000 years be told in less than 60 minutes? These and many other questions are being posed in a new series of documentaries and short films entitled Why Poverty? launching on Monday night on BBC1.

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Zimbabwe MPs get circumcised in Aids fight

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Telegraph Staff - Jun. 22 (Opinion) - In a rare show of political unity, the MPs from President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's rival MDC camp chatted calmly with reporters as they queued at a clinic set up inside the parliament complex. "When I went in t

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Zimbabwe to probe Mugabe cancer claim

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

OpenGlobe - By Tempodivalse, OpenGlobe contributors - Oct. 13 (News Report) - The party of Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, Zanu-PF, has created a committee to investigate claims made by Wikileaks regarding Mugabe's health. The leaked cables claimed that party officials told US diplomats the president contracted prostate cancer.

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Zimbabwe's Mugabe ill with cancer, leaked cables say - OpenGlobe

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

theopenglobe.org - By OpenGlobe contributors, Tempodivalse - Sep. 07 (News Report) - Confidential cables leaked by the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks last Friday suggest that Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe is gravely ill with prostate cancer. Extracts from the leaked cables were published by numerous Zimbabwe news outlets.

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Zimbabwe and its diamonds: Forever dirty

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Jul. 01 (News Analysis) - The Kimberley Process (KP) is in danger of collapse. Set up in 2003, the system is supposed to end the trade in “blood diamonds” which illicitly finance civil wars. But its Congolese chairman has unilaterally decided to let sales from Zimbabwe’s disputed Marange diamond fields resume. America, the European Union, Canada and Israel are hotly contesting the move. Rulings by the 49-member body, representing 75 diamond-producing and -trading countries, are supposed to be unanimous. Ever since diamonds were first discovered in a 60,000-hectare site in Marange in eastern Zimbabwe in 2006, reports of killings, torture, corruption, bribery, looting, smuggling and political skulduggery have been rife. The stakes are enormous. Tendai Biti, Zimbabwe’s finance minister, has described the field as “the biggest find of alluvial diamonds in the history of mankind”. Potential revenue has been estimated at $1 billion-2 billion a year. One mining expert involved in the area reckons it is “much, much more”. The IMF put Zimbabwe’s entire GDP last year at $7.5 billion.

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John Paul II's coffin brought out

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:11:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 29 - 29 April 2011 Last updated at 11:11 ET Workers paused for prayers before removing the coffin The Vatican has removed Pope John Paul II's coffin from its crypt in St Peter's Basilica ahead of his beatification on Sunday. The wooden coffin is to be placed

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In Libya, Inaction Was Not an Option

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Real Clear Politics - By Richard Cohen - Mar. 29 (Opinion) - The Libyan intervention established a precedent: There is such a thing as the international community and, as inchoate as it may be, it will insist on certain minimum standards even for dictators: Your people are not yours to kill.

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WikiLeaks' collateral damage in Zimbabwe

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By James Richardson - Jan. 04 (News Analysis) - If Morgan Tsvangirai is charged with treason, WikiLeaks will have earned the ignominy of Robert Mugabe's gratitude When WikiLeaks whistleblowers began circulating in April footage of a 2007 Iraq war incursion in which US military personnel unwittingly killed two war correspondents and several civilians, the international community was aghast at the apparent murder. With sobering questions on the material's full context largely falling on deaf ears, the group was free to editorialise the scene as it pleased: "collateral murder" . But now, with the recent release of sensitive diplomatic cables , WikiLeaks may have committed its own collateral murder, upending the precarious balance of power in a fragile African state and signing the death warrant of its pro-western premier. Zimbabwe's Morgan Tsvangirai's call to public service has been a tortured one, punctuated by death and indignity. His numerous arrests and brushes with death began in 1997, when he emerged as the unlikely face of ...

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Shock as SA 'rape victim' charged

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:03:10 -0800

BBC News - Nov. 18 - South African rights groups have expressed shock at a decision to charge a 15-year-old alleged gang-rape victim with having underage sex. The girl was charged with statutory rape along with her alleged rapists, who are aged 14 and 16. The alleged rape

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The global political issues playing out at the World Cup.

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Brian Fung - Jun. 11 (News Analysis) - Since attending the World Cup is out of the question for most North Koreans, Pyongyang has solved its on-site fan shortage by recruiting a thousand Chinese citizens to fly the old red, white, and blue on its behalf. Among the members of the

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Forget The South Of France, Try Zimbabwe : NPR

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - Apr. 21 (News) -

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Op-Ed Columnist: Young Superheroes in a Hut

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nicholas D. Kristof - Apr. 11 (Opinion) - Zimbabwe is an example of what happens when bad leaders govern great countries.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Postcard From Zimbabwe

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nicholas D. Kristof - Apr. 08 (Opinion) - Nicholas Kristof addresses reader feedback and posts short takes from his travels. Here’s a measure of how President Robert Mugabe is destroying this once lush nation of Zimbabwe: In a week of surreptitious reporting here (committing journalism can

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The 2009 Failed States Index

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - Jun. 23 (Special Report) - It is a sobering time for the world’s most fragile countries—virulent economic crisis, countless natural disasters, and government collapse. This year, we delve deeper than ever into just what went wrong—and who is to blame.

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Mugabe Aides Said to Use Violence to Get Amnesty

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Celia W. Dugger - Apr. 10 (News Report) - President Robert Mugabe’s top lieutenants are trying to force the political opposition into granting them amnesty for their past crimes by abducting, detaining and torturing opposition officials and activists, according to senior members of Mr. Mugabe’s party.

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Why Zimbabwe opposition agreed to join Mugabe’s government

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Scott Baldauf - Jan. 31 (News Analysis) - It took 10 months of international mediation and arm-twisting, but Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party agreed Friday to join in a power-sharing government with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe

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To save Zimbabwe, South Africa must step up

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By John Hughes - Dec. 19 (Opinion) - Once one of the most beautiful and bountiful lands in Africa, Zimbabwe is fast becoming the worst disaster on the continent since Rwanda and Darfur.

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LRB � Mahmood Mamdani: Lessons of Zimbabwe

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The London Review of Books - By Mahmood Mamdani - Dec. 04 (Comment) - There is no denying Mugabe’s authoritarianism, or his willingness to tolerate and even encourage the violent behaviour of his supporters. His policies have helped lay waste the country’s economy, though sanctions have played no small part, while his refusal to share power with the country’s growing opposition movement, much of it based in the trade unions, has led to a bitter impasse. This view of Zimbabwe’s crisis can be found everywhere… but it gives us little sense of how Mugabe has managed to survive. For he has ruled not only by coercion but by consent, and his land reform measures, however harsh, have won him considerable popularity, not just in Zimbabwe but throughout southern Africa.

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Frustration high in Zimbabwe's Army, a Mugabe power base

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Scott Baldauf - Dec. 04 (Special Report) - With rampant inflation, high unemployment, and villagers forced to eat rats and wild fruits to survive, Zimbabweans have become quite accustomed to hard times. But this week, even Zimbabweans feel that things have taken a turn for the worse.

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Mob runs riot as Zimbabwe runs out of water

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Jan Raath - Dec. 02 (News Report) - The Zimbabwe National Water Authority turned off the pumps in the capital after it ran out of purifying chemicals. With cholera cases soaring above 11,000 across the country, and an anthrax outbreak ravaging the the countryside, David Parirenyatwa, the Health Minister, urged Zimbabweans to stop shaking hands to avoid spreading disease.

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3,000 dead from cholera in Zimbabwe

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Basildon Peta - Nov. 26 (News Report) - A senior official in the health ministry told The Independent yesterday that more than 3,000 people have died from the water-borne disease in the past two weeks, 10 times the widely-reported death toll of just over 300. "But even this higher figure is still an understatement because very few bother to register the deaths of their relatives these days," said the official, who requested anonymity.

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Food Crisis Expands In Tumultuous Zimbabwe

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - By Ofeibea Quist-Arcton - Nov. 25 (Special Report) - While Zimbabwe's political leaders continue to bicker over key Cabinet posts in a power-sharing government, many people are going hungry.

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