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Stakeholders in Zimbabwe's struggling health care system have agreed on the need to set up a national health fund to channel donor funds where they are needed given the reluctance of Western sources of assistance to directly fund the Harare power-sharing government.
Botswana President Ian Khama on Friday accused Zimbabwe's long-time leader Robert Mugabe of failing to honour a power-sharing deal and called for fresh elections in the troubled nation.
President Ian Khama of Botswana gave the simmering Zimbabwe crisis a stir on Friday with a state of the union speech in which he accused the ZANU-PF party of President Robert Mugabe of violating the 2008 Global Political Agreement for power-sharing in Harare and suggesting that new elections in Zimbabwe may be required to end a power stalemate.
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Zimbabwean police released the head of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Lovemore Matombo, and four other union officials arrested in Victoria Falls on Nov. 8, union Secretary-General Wellington Chibhebhe said by phone from Harare today.
Defence lawyers for a top aide to Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have demanded the judge take himself out of the case because of bias towards the prosecution, a defence lawyer said on Thursday.
Several aid organizations are planning to set up centers in Zimbabwe where victims of sexual abuse can get physical and psychological help.
Shiho Sakai of Japan has broken the women's 200-meter backstroke short-course world record. Sakai clocked 2 minutes, 00.18 seconds at a World Cup meet Saturday to break the mark of 2.00.91 set by Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe on April 11, 2008, in Manchester, England.
Harare - The head of Zimbabwe's national labour movement, detained for four days for holding an illegal meeting, has been freed after a magistrate told police they had no right to interfere with union business, lawyers said Friday. Lovemore Matombo...
The U.N. food chief said Saturday he was chilly but otherwise slept OK after his first night on a hunger strike to draw attention to the plight of the world's hungry before next week's U.N. food summit.
China’s position as the country’s largest foreign lender means that President Obama is likely to spend more time reassuring Beijing than pushing reforms.
Michael Phelps admitted Saturday he is in poor form after another disappointing performance saw him finish fifth in the men's 200m butterfly final as world records tumbled here at the shortcourse World Cup meet.
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