Tsvangirai returns to Zimbabwe to bury his wife
March 9th, 2009 - 5:45 pm ICT by IANS
Johannesburg/Harare, March 9 (DPA) Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai returned home from Botswana Monday to prepare for the burial later this week of his wife, Susan, who was killed in a car ... Read more...
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Tsvangirai’s wife to be buried Wednesday
March 9th, 2009 - 10:36 am ICT by IANS
Harare, March 9 (Xinhua) Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's wife, who died in a car crash that injured her husband Friday, will be buried Wednesday, Tsvangirai's party said Saturday.
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Zimbabwe Prime Ministers party to probe his wifes death
March 8th, 2009 - 3:04 pm ICT by ANI
Harare (Zimbabwe), Mar. 8 (ANI): Zimbabwes Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirais party has said it will conduct its own investigation in the mysterious death of Tsvangirais wife. The Movement for Democratic Change ... Read more...
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Britain believes Tsvangirai crash an accident
March 8th, 2009 - 7:32 am ICT by IANS
London, March 8 (DPA) The British government said late Saturday it believed the car crash that injured Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and killed his wife Susan was indeed an accident and ... Read more...
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Zimbabwe’s prime minister leaves hospital after crash
March 8th, 2009 - 12:40 am ICT by IANS
Harare, March 7 (DPA) Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai Saturday left hospital one day after a road accident that left him injured and claimed the life of his wife Susan.
Tsvangirai met dozens ... Read more...
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Tsvangirai survives car crash, wife killed
March 7th, 2009 - 4:38 pm ICT by IANS
Harare, March 7 (DPA) Zimbabwe's new prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai was injured in a car crash that killed his wife Susan late Friday, confirmed party officials, who cited the suspicious circumstances as ... Read more...
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Zimbabwe PMs wife killed in accident, party terms it assassination bid
March 7th, 2009 - 1:41 pm ICT by ANI
New York, Mar 7 (ANI): Zimbabwes Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was hurt and his wife, Susan, has been killed in a car crash about 45 miles south of Harare.According to officials ... Read more...
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Zimbabwean prime minister injured, wife killed in car crash (Lead)
March 7th, 2009 - 1:13 am ICT by IANS
Harare, March 6 (DPA) Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was injured and his wife Susan died in a car crash Friday, party officials have confirmed.
"Morgan is badly bruised and cut, but I'm ... Read more...
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Zimbabwe Prime Minsiter Morgan Tsvangirai’s wife dies in car crash
March 7th, 2009 - 1:07 am ICT by David M N James
Zimbabwean Prime Minister was involved in a car accident which claimed the life of his wife Susan Tsvangirai.Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was involved in car crash as he was traveling with ... Read more...
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Zimbabwean Prime Minister Tsvangirai injured in car crash
March 7th, 2009 - 12:48 am ICT by IANS
Harare, March 6 (DPA) Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has been injured in a car crash Friday, a spokesman for his party said.
"I can confirm that he was involved in a car ... Read more...
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US has no plans to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe
March 6th, 2009 - 2:13 am ICT by IANS
Washington, March 6 (DPA) The US plans to keep sanctions in place on Zimbabwe until President Robert Mugabe ends political repression in the troubled African country, the State Department said Thursday.
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House approves easing US restrictions on Cuba travel
February 26th, 2009 - 9:13 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 26 (IANS) The US House of Representatives has approved a $410 billion spending bill that includes a provision easing the restrictions the Bush administration imposed on Cuban-Americans' travel and remittances ... Read more...
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Republican senator urges revision of US policy toward Cuba
February 24th, 2009 - 4:54 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 24 (IANS) Republican Senator Richard Lugar is pushing for a re-evaluation of US policy toward Cuba, considering that the economic embargo imposed in 1962 has not spurred democratic change in ... Read more...
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Tsvangirai urges the West to fund power-sharing government
February 23rd, 2009 - 3:11 am ICT by IANS
Harare, Feb 23 (DPA) Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai Sunday made an impassioned appeal to the international community to fund the country's new coalition government, calling the situation in the hunger- and ... Read more...
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Zimbabwean unity government sealed amid climate of distrust
February 14th, 2009 - 1:30 am ICT by IANS
Harare, Feb 13 (DPA) Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe swore some of his fiercest critics into a power-sharing government Friday, sealing the beginning of a reluctant union which Zimbabweans hope will end the ... Read more...
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Zimbabwe’s deputy minister appointee arrested
February 13th, 2009 - 11:34 pm ICT by IANS
Harare, Feb 13 (DPA) Roy Bennett, a former white farmer appointed deputy agriculture minister in Zimbabwe's power-sharing government, was arrested Friday, a spokesman for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party said.
He ... Read more...
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Tsvangirai promises change in Zimbabwe (Roundup)
February 12th, 2009 - 1:09 am ICT by IANS
Harare/Johannesburg, Feb 11 (DPA) Following his historic swearing-in as prime minister, Zimbabwe's former longtime opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai Wednesday pledged to work towards ending his country's humanitarian crisis and called for a ... Read more...
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Tsvangirai sworn in as Zimbabwe’s prime minister (Lead)
February 11th, 2009 - 9:00 pm ICT by IANS
Harare, Feb 11 (DPA) In an historic development, Zimbabwe's longtime opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was Wednesday sworn in as prime minister of a unity government headed by his arch-rival, President Robert Mugabe.
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Tsvangirai sworn in as Zimbabwe’s prime minister
February 11th, 2009 - 5:58 pm ICT by IANS
Harare, Feb 11 (Xinhua) Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change, was sworn in Wednesday as prime minister in a unity government.
Tsvangirai, 56, was sworn in by President ... Read more...
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Zimbabwe’s MDC signs up to join Mugabe-led government
January 31st, 2009 - 12:33 am ICT by IANS
Harare, Jan 30 (DPA) Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Friday voted to go into government with President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party, ending the party's nearly five-month campaign for a more ... Read more...
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Zimbabwe opposition leader confirms joining unity government
January 29th, 2009 - 8:55 pm ICT by IANS
Harare, Jan 29 (Xinhua) Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader, Thursday confirmed he would join a unity government led by President Robert Mugabe, according to media reports. "It's ... Read more...
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Tsvangirai ”to enter power-sharing government” with Mugabe
January 28th, 2009 - 1:05 pm ICT by ANI
Harare, Jan.28 (ANI): Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has decided to enter the unity government with President Robert Mugabe, a senior advisor to the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader said ... Read more...
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SADC says Zimbabwe impasse over, MDC calls claims malicious
January 27th, 2009 - 7:27 pm ICT by IANS
Pretoria/Brussels, Jan 27 (DPA) Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Tuesday blasted as "malicious" assurances given by southern African leaders at the end of a 12-hour summit that the party had ... Read more...
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SADC leaders begin third summit on Zimbabwe political crisis
January 26th, 2009 - 10:52 pm ICT by IANS
Pretoria, Jan 26 (IANS) The leaders of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) began an extraordinary summit here in South Africa Monday, in yet another attempt to eke a compromise from Zimbabwe's ... Read more...
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Mugabe threatens to break off talks with opposition
January 19th, 2009 - 12:27 pm ICT by ANI
Harare, Jan.19 (ANI): Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Sunday threatened to break off power-sharing talks with the opposition, if the latters leader Morgan Tsvangirai declined to sign a deal in their ... Read more...
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Zimbabwe’s opposition says power-sharing ‘political suicide’
January 18th, 2009 - 11:24 pm ICT by IANS
Harare, Jan 18 (DPA) Zimbabwe's opposition said Sunday it will not "commit political suicide" by entering into a government with President Robert Mugabe without the power to deliver change.Speaking at a national ... Read more...
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Zimbabwe opposition leader says Mugabe regime ”collapsing”
January 16th, 2009 - 12:20 pm ICT by ANI
Johannesburg, Jan.16 (ANI): Zimbabwe''s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has claimed that the Robert Mugabe''s regime is ''collapsing''.
Speaking in Johannesburg, the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) told The Daily ... Read more...
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New US president to completely review policy on Pakistan
October 31st, 2008 - 12:54 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 31 (ANI): One of the greatest foreign policy challenges for the next United States Administration is what to do about Pakistan, Steven Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations ... Read more...
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Zimbabwe opposition threatens to quit unity government
October 13th, 2008 - 4:24 pm ICT by IANS
Harare, Oct 13 (Xinhua) Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has threatened to pull out of a national unity government if President Robert Mugabe's party controls all the key ministries, media reported Monday. ... Read more...
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Mugabe breaks power-sharing deal, handing key ministries to his ZANU-PF party
October 11th, 2008 - 7:29 pm ICT by ANI
Harare, Oct.11 (ANI): Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has violated his ZANU-PF party''s power-sharing deal with the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai by allocating the three important portfolios ... Read more...
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Myanmarese commemorate ”Saffron Revolution” anniversary in New Delhi
September 27th, 2008 - 6:53 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Sept 27 (ANI): Scores of Myanmarese nationals gathered in New Delhi on Saturday to take out a march to commemorate the first anniversary of Saffron Revolution, when thousands of ... Read more...
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Talks on Zimbabwe cabinet deferred
September 17th, 2008 - 7:48 am ICT by IANS
Harare, Sep 17 (DPA) Talks set for Tuesday between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai on the appointment of ministers in a new unity government have been postponed indefinitely.While ... Read more...
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Mugabe, Tsvangirai sign Zimbabwe power-sharing deal
September 15th, 2008 - 7:35 pm ICT by ANI
Harare (Zimbabwe), Sept.15 (ANI): Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday signed a power-sharing deal that will end months of political crisis and violence after bitterly-disputed elections.
Mugabe, ... Read more...
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Zimbabwe ruling, opposition parties sign power-sharing deal
September 15th, 2008 - 5:09 pm ICT by IANS
Harare, Sep 15 (Xinhua) Zimbabwe's ruling party and the opposition formally signed here Monday a power-sharing deal which is aimed at solving the political and economic crisis in the country. The deal ... Read more...
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Division of powers in Zimbabwe government still cloudy
September 14th, 2008 - 9:41 pm ICT by IANS
Harare/Johannesburg, Sep 14 (DPA) Details of the deal are still unclear Sunday as the differing parties in Zimbabwe's power-sharing agreement continued to form a coalition government.Although the composition of the new government ... Read more...
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