Obama awards Zimbabwe group, blasts Mugabe
AFP - Mon Nov 23, 9:32 pm ETUS President Barack Obama has given an award to a leading women's rights activist in Zimbabwe, labeling Robert Mugabe a "dictator" in the process.
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Zimbabwe women, receiving rights award, speak out
AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 23, 7:51 pm ETPresident Barack Obama praised representatives of a women's organization whose members have been beaten by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's police force and face court trials for challenging Zimbabwe's government. He said their grassroots efforts could improve the African country.
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Obama honors Mugabe foes for defying a "dictator"
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 24, 12:55 pm ETU.S. President Barack Obama honored a group of women Monday who have confronted Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and said they had defied a dictator.
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Zimbabwe child mortality up 20 percent, U.N. says
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 24, 12:21 pm ETZimbabwe's infant mortality rate has risen by 20 percent over the past two decades as children under five succumb to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and pneumonia, a joint government and United Nations survey showed on Tuesday.
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Zimbabwe children, women's health declining sharply: UNICEF
EARTHtimes.org - Tue Nov 24, 11:11 am ETHarare - The health of Zimbabwe's children and women, particularly in the poorer parts of the country has worsened sharply, with 100 children under five dying of mostly preventable diseases each day, the United Nations said Tuesday. A survey carried ...
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Zimbabwe women, to receive rights award from Obama, speak out on their country's rights record
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Mon Nov 23, 7:26 pm ETWASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is praising a women's organization whose members have been beaten repeatedly by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe (moo-GAH'-bay)'s police force and face trials for challenging the government there.
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Refusing to live in the stink
The Oklahoman - Tue Nov 24, 7:34 pm ETWASHINGTON — As Americans count their blessings, it is useful to remember women who count their beatings — in the once-fair country of Zimbabwe , cursed by Robert Mugabe .Magodonga Mahlangu and Jennifer Williams, leaders of Women of Zimbabwe Arise, sit at a table at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights in Washington, quietly recounting acts of democratic courage that should be ...
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Rapaport Bans Zimbabwe's Marange Diamonds
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Nov 24, 1:26 pm ETNEW YORK----The Rapaport Group and the RapNet Diamond Trading Network have implemented an immediate trading ban on all diamonds from Zimbabwe’s Marange diamond fields due to severe human rights violations.
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Obama Issues Sharp Rebuke of Mugabe
International Herald Tribune - Mon Nov 23, 8:20 pm ETIn honoring Zimbabwe’s tenacious women protesters at the White House on Monday, President Obama bluntly referred to Zimbabwe’s president as a dictator.
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Brother's Brother collects medical supplies for Zimbabwe
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Tue Nov 24, 7:20 pm ETOn Tuesday, workers at the Brother's Brother Foundation warehouse in the North Side filled a 40-foot trailer with an estimated $300,000 worth of pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and other supplies destined for Nyadire.
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Darfur peacekeepers await news on abducted workers
AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 24, 1:52 pm ETThree weeks have passed without news of two kidnapped civilians working for the joint United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur, a UNAMID spokesman said on Tuesday.
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