India to train African craftswomen in basketry
January 10th, 2012 - 7:48 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) India's National Institute of Design (NID) will train craftswomen of rural Africa in basket weaving under a $1-million project.The government Tuesday said the programme will ... Read more...
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Melbourne world’s most liveable city; Mumbai fares poorly
August 30th, 2011 - 7:56 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, Aug 30 (IANS) Melbourne has pipped 139 other cities to be judged the best city in the world to live in, while India's commercial hub Mumbai was way below ... Read more...
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Zimbabwe to buy 14 locomotives from China
May 30th, 2011 - 12:36 pm ICT by IANS
Harare, May 30 (IANS) Zimbabwe plans to buy 14 locomotives for about $29 million from a Chinese company, a media report said.NRZ had already paid $2.9 million in advance in ... Read more...
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Mugabe hounding rivals in Zimbabwe
April 19th, 2011 - 2:53 pm ICT by ANI
Harare, Apr. 19 (ANI): Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has reportedly intensified his campaign of harassment against his opponents in Parliament.According to the New York Times, he has ordered the arrest of a ... Read more...
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Zimbabwe becoming a police state: Tsvangirai
March 19th, 2011 - 1:32 pm ICT by ANI
Harare, Mar.19 (ANI): Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said that the country is sliding into a 'police state' and regional leaders should intervene to save the shaky coalition he formed with ... Read more...
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UN official claims Zimbabwe activists may have been tortured
March 1st, 2011 - 2:43 pm ICT by ANI
Johannesburg, Mar. 1 (ANI): A United Nations torture investigator has confirmed that he had written the Government of Zimbabwe to express concern about allegations that state security agents had assaulted the 45 ... Read more...
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Zimbabwe to play three Tests at home after five years
February 24th, 2011 - 1:40 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, Feb 24 (ANI): Zimbabwe will play their first Test matches in more than five years in one-off home games against Bangladesh, Pakistan and New Zealand this year.Australia and South Africa have ... Read more...
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UN offered lucrative retirement package to Mugabe: Wikileaks
December 19th, 2010 - 7:24 pm ICT by ANI
Kuala Lumpur, Dec 19 (ANI): Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe turned down a lucrative retirement package offered by the former United Nations (UN) Secretary General, Kofi Annan, according to secret US diplomatic cables ... Read more...
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WikiLeaks cables reveal secret plan to remove Mugabe from power in Zimbabwe
December 9th, 2010 - 3:13 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 9(ANI): A coup was planned to remove Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe with the help of pressure from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, according to classified US diplomatic cables released by ... Read more...
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Huge circumcision programme gets under way in Southern Africa
July 22nd, 2010 - 7:17 pm ICT by IANS
Harare, July 22 (DPA) An unprecedented circumcision campaign covering 13 countries in East and Southern Africa is being unfolded in a bid to break the epidemic of AIDS that is wreaking havoc ... Read more...
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Mumbai terror suspect held near South Africa border? (Lead)
June 26th, 2010 - 7:36 pm ICT by IANS
Johannesburg, June 26 (IANS) Two Pakistanis, one a suspect in the Mumbai terror attack, were arrested in Zimbabwe as they tried to enter South Africa, a media report said Saturday. But a ... Read more...
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Pakistani terror suspects held at South Africa border
June 26th, 2010 - 12:13 pm ICT by IANS
Johannesburg, June 26 (DPA) Zimbabwe police arrested two Pakistani citizens on suspicion of terrorism when they attempted to cross the border into South Africa, news reports said Saturday.
At least one of ... Read more...
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Zimbabwe refuses to rule out opposing Howard’s ICC bid
June 25th, 2010 - 2:45 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, Jun 25 (ANI): Zimbabwean cricket chief and an associate of President Robert Mugabe, Peter Chingoka, has refused to rule out opposing John Howard as the International Cricket Council's next vice-president after ... Read more...
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Scoreboard: India vs Zimbabwe, Twenty20
June 13th, 2010 - 10:48 pm ICT by IANS
Harare, June 13 (IANS) Scoreboard of the second Twenty20 International between India and Zimbabwe here Sunday.
Zimbabwe:Hamilton Masakadza c Sharma b Dinda 2Brendan Taylor c Pathan b Mishra 27C ... Read more...
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Scoreboard: India vs Zimbabwe, Twenty20
June 12th, 2010 - 11:59 pm ICT by IANS
Harare, June 12 (IANS) Scoreboard of the Twenty20 match between India and Zimbabwe here Saturday:
ZimbabweHamilton Masakadza c Raina b Vinay Kumar 1Brendon Taylor lbw b Vinay Kumar ... Read more...
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Ahmadinejad starts Africa tour
April 23rd, 2010 - 3:06 am ICT by IANS
Harare, April 23 (IANS) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Thursday arrived at the Zimbabwean capital as part of his two-nation Africa tour.
Ahmadinejad was received by his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe at the airport, ... Read more...
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India to play One-day tri-series in Zimbabwe
April 16th, 2010 - 6:51 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, April 16 (IANS) India will play a One-day tri-series in Zimbabwe during May-June that will involve Sri Lanka as the third team, it was announced by the Indian cricket board here ... Read more...
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Ponting mulls opening batting for rest of India-Australia ODI series
November 2nd, 2009 - 4:39 pm ICT by ANI
Mohali, Nov 2(ANI): Australian skipper Ricky Ponting's decision to open the batting in the third ODI of the seven game series against India may develop into something more lasting.Ponting has indicated that ... Read more...
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The travails of Zimbabwe’s child `terrorist’
July 13th, 2009 - 1:46 pm ICT by IANS
By Columbus Mavhunga
Harare, July 13 (DPA) A three-year-old Zimbabwean, nicknamed the "world's youngest terrorist" after his abduction last year by state security agents and imprisonment for three months, is struggling to adjust ... Read more...
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Umpire Aleem Dar lists ills of Zimbabwean cricket
May 31st, 2009 - 4:23 pm ICT by IANS
Harare, May 31 (Xinhua) International Cricket Council (ICC) Elite Panel umpire Aleem Dar believes the lack of four-day cricket at the under-19 age level will have a negative impact on the future ... Read more...
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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.
Susan Tsvangirai will ... Read more...
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Loyalists praise Mugabe as he turns 85
February 22nd, 2009 - 2:43 am ICT by IANS
Johannesburg/Harare, Feb 22 (DPA) State media and party loyalists in Zimbabwe praised President Robert Mugabe as he turned 85 Saturday, with a lavish party and banquet planned for next week.
Zimbabwe's defence ministry ... Read more...
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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 past ‘worst case scenario’: Red Cross
February 10th, 2009 - 9:59 pm ICT by IANS
Geneva, Feb 10 (DPA) Warning that the cholera crisis in Zimbabwe had surpassed the initially estimated "worst case scenario", the International Federation of Red Cross Societies (IFRC) said Tuesday that it was ... Read more...
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Zimbabwean currency reduced by trillion to one
February 2nd, 2009 - 5:14 pm ICT by IANS
Harare, Feb 2 (DPA) Zimbabwe's central bank slashed another 12 zeroes off the country's worthless currency Monday, shrinking 1 trillion Zimbabwe dollars into a single Zimbabwe dollar.The move by Reserve Bank governor ... 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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Cholera kills over 2,200 in Zimbabwe
January 17th, 2009 - 8:02 am ICT by IANS
Geneva/Harare, Jan 17 (DPA) Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic has continued its rapid spread, with the toll reaching 2,225 Friday, the UN said in Geneva.According to the organisation, 42,675 people have been infected with ... Read more...
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Zimbabwe unveils 100 trillion dollar banknote
January 16th, 2009 - 5:29 pm ICT by IANS
Harare, Jan 16 (Xinhua) The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has introduced a new family of trillion Zim-dollar banknotes in denominations of 100 trillion, 50 trillion, 20 trillion and 10 trillion that ... 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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Zimbabwean soldiers being fed elephant meat
January 10th, 2009 - 1:36 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 10 (ANI): A wildlife campaigner has told the BBC News that Zimbabwean soldiers are being given elephant meat for their rations.Jonny Rodrigues, from the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, said ... Read more...
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Mugabe accuses UK of spreading cholera among Zimbabweans
December 13th, 2008 - 6:12 pm ICT by ANI
Harare, Dec.13 (ANI): Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has accused Britain of waging "biological warfare" against his people through a cholera outbreak that has killed at least 800 people so far. Health ... Read more...
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Mugabe, Tsvangirai agree to share power after a decade of bitter enmity
September 12th, 2008 - 3:11 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sep 12 (ANI): Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai have agreed to share power after a decade of bitter enmity and a brutal election campaign that saw ... Read more...
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Zimbabwe’s rival parties reach powersharing deal: Mbeki
September 12th, 2008 - 5:31 am ICT by IANS
Harare, Sep 11 (Xinhua) Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party led by President Robert Mugabe and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Thursday reached a powersharing agreement, South African President Thabo Mbeki said. ... Read more...
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Mugabe warns he will form government without powersharing
September 4th, 2008 - 7:03 pm ICT by IANS
Harare, Sep 4 (DPA) Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is putting opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai under pressure, threatening to set up a government on his own if the latter doesn't agree to a ... Read more...
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