Tag: zimbabwe
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July 21, 2008 10:17 AM EDT --
Zimbabwe, grappling with a record 2.2 million percent inflation, has introduced a new 100-billion-dollar bank note. The announcement came Saturday, ahead of a Monday release.
Battling a chronic . . .
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July 15, 2007 11:47 AM EDT --
We were on our way down Route 28 in Harwich traveling to the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge in Chatman, Massachusetts to go "birding" (one of Papa's favorite activities) when out of the . . .
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June 23, 2008 08:30 AM EDT --
In a move widely criticized by African and international observers, the electoral commission in Zimbabwe announced that a second-round run-off election will continue despite the withdrawal of opposition . . .
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April 08, 2008 08:14 AM EDT --
China reportedly is working on a deal with a major advertising agency. Their problem this week is the continuing fallout of the so called Tibet Riot- unhappy crowds trying to snuff out the traveling olympic . . .
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June 22, 2008 02:30 PM EDT --
It's official. Opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew today from the election in Zimbabwe against President Robert Mugabe, citing mounting violence. 84 year old Mugabe, who has bankrupted . . .
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March 26, 2008 09:34 AM EDT --
http://www.newsweek.com/id/129010?GT1=43002
In a nation with rampant hyperinflation, bread is a bargain at just $10 million. Inside Zimbabwe's collapsing economy.
By Scott Johnson | Newsweek . . .
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June 29, 2008 10:43 AM EDT --
If you have been catching news tidbits here and there on the Zimbabwe stolen election and the apparently crazy behavior of 84 year old strongman Robert Mugabe, you have probably been wondering what the . . .
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November 28, 2008 08:04 PM EST --
It always feels a bit strange to work on black friday. My wife reminded me, when I commented upon that, that we are not black friday shoppers. And while I usually enjoy shopping, I have no regrets . . .
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April 30, 2008 11:34 PM EDT --
Again America poises itself to take on the roll of hero trying to be the world's policeman. The U.S. is among several entities that have called for an international arms embargo on Zimbabwe. Political . . .
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November 21, 2008 02:20 PM EST --
November 19, 2008
Ontibile Kababongwe* , OneWorld UK
HARARE, Nov 19 (OneWorld) - Why has the Home Affairs Ministry become the bone of contention in the Zimbabwe party talks? It's . . .
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August 06, 2006 03:54 PM EDT --
Woke too early and sat, my futon couch propped at one end, chaise lounge style, bolstered with pillows, staring out the window. For hours. At noon I meditated, clearing my mind, and lay flat and came to . . .
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October 07, 2007 02:55 PM EDT --
Human rights activists in Britain are calling on Kenya Airways to refuse to carry a Zimbabwean asylum seeker who are being deported to Malawi today.
Amos Windolosi (31), a known member of the Zimbabwean . . .
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June 05, 2008 12:37 PM EDT --
U.K. & U.S. Diplomats Attacked In Zimbabwe
The Scotsman
5 June 2008
A CONVOY of British and US diplomats was attacked at gunpoint in Zimbabwe today, the US embassy said. A spokesman said . . .
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June 28, 2008 10:16 PM EDT --
The Zimbabwe runoff election has been denounced as a "sham", due to the fact that opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew a few days back in the face of massive and violent intimidation . . .
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August 20, 2008 10:35 AM EDT --
August 13, 2008
Alison Raphael , OneWorld US
WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (OneWorld) - Power-sharing talks between Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai . . .
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July 30, 2006 03:52 PM EDT --
In May, security agents in Zimbabwe told Jenni Williams that if she continues to organize demonstrations she is going to pay for it with her life.
Williams received the threat upon being released from . . .
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December 11, 2006 07:23 PM EST --
As the sun sets and the clear blue water turns to golden grey, light fades in the endless African sky. Mountain peaks in the distance bow their tops in silence as day falls into night.
In the . . .
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November 13, 2008 05:02 AM EST --
Saudi Arabia is a country that uses special police force , called the "Society for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice," to make sure that only "one narrow sect of Islam . . .
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December 23, 2007 06:23 PM EST --
Since the 1950s the Stone Sculpture produced by the Master Artists of Zimbabwe has justifiably been called the best known expression of sub-Saharan contemporary art. I've personally met with, . . .
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April 20, 2008 11:52 PM EDT --
I wanted to share this small piece of hopeful news, with a hat tip to grannyhelen, who was the first to share an article on this with me. For those of us who love peace and seek a nonviolent world, . . .
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