Habakkuk in Zimbabwe
Christianity Today By a Zimbabwean pastor-scholar Posted 7/24/2008 We’re hungry, angry, and depending on a sovereign God. How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save? Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong?
Firm with licence to print Mugabe’s money
The Independent By Daniel Howden and Tom Armitage in Zurich Thursday, 24 July 2008 The Mugabe regime’s final lifeline is a small Vienna-based software company that helps it to keep printing the money it relies on for its survival, The Independent can reveal. Jura JSP, an Austro-Hungarian firm with just 50 employees, has been dealing
A Mugabe deal could land Britain with a dilemma
The Telegraph By David Blair 23 July 2008 A Zimbabwean opposition leader, lauded for his brave struggle against Robert Mugabe, arrives in London on an official visit as the new prime minister. Morgan Tsvangirai asks Britain to recognise his government and offer millions of pounds of aid. He urges the lifting of all sanctions and
Zimbabwean leaders agree to negotiations
The Washington Post By Craig Timberg Published: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai agreed Monday to start urgent negotiations toward forming a new government, a first but very tentative step toward ending that nation’s political stalemate. The deal signed on national television was vague, leaving aside nearly every
In Conversation – Remembering Zimbabwe
Inthenews.co.uk By Alex Stevenson 22 July 2008 Lauren St John has first-hand experience of politically inspired violence in Zimbabwe. But she still loved living in the country, where awe at its natural beauty sat side by side with an all-pervasive fear of violence and retribution. Oppression still lingers today, as Ms St John knows only
Towards a negotiated settlement in Zimbabwe
Speech given to Bulawayo Agenda meeting: President Room, Rainbow Hotel By David Coltart Friday18 July 2008 Introduction It is appropriate for me to open my speech by conveying hearty congratulations to Nelson Mandela on his 90th birthday. I think I speak on behalf of all here today in wishing him continued health and happiness as
Brown bids to toughen European sanctions on Zimbabwean regime
The Independent By Daniel Howden, Deputy Foreign Editor Monday, 14 July 2008 Britain’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, sought to toughen European Union sanctions against the Mugabe regime yesterday after a bruising diplomatic failure in New York, where China and Russia vetoed action on the Zimbabwe crisis from the UN Security Council. Britain will submit 36
Lament for democracy in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe
Chicago Tribune By Paul Salopek | Chicago Tribune correspondent June 29, 2008 To a nation living on its knees, violence-plagued polls seem a death knell JOHANNESBURG — Zimbabwe’s shattered opposition released its roll call of dead last week. The list, e-mailed to the international media, was clearly prepared in haste. It contains the kind of
Voters in main cities defy reprisal threats to avoid ‘sham’ presidential poll
Financial Times By Tony Hawkins in Harare and Tom Burgis in Johannesburg June 28 2008 Voters in Zimbabwe’s main cities boycotted yesterday’s presidential polls in defiance of the threat of reprisals against anyone not voting for the only candidate: Robert Mugabe. “None of us are bothering to vote,” said Angela, a young hairdresser. “I don’t
Leak reveals ruthless strategy to bomb and murder until election
The Zimbabwean Thursday, 26 June 2008 The ruling party in Zimbabwe has a detailed plan to murder opposition polling agents, bomb polling stations and march the electorate to the ballot box under armed guard to ensure an emphatic victory for Robert Mugabe in tomorrow’s uncontested presidential run-off. Minutes of a meeting of the regime’s top