Zimbabwe crisis 'threatens lives'
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Archbishop Pius Ncube says regional intervention is needed as Zimbabwe's crisis is "life-threatening".
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HARARE, Zimbabwe - Things have gotten so bad in Zimbabwe that people have taken to telling a wry joke: "What did we have before candles?" The answer: "Electricity." Zimbabwe once boasted one of Sub-Saharan Africa's most vibrant economies, but four years of turmoil have erased that progress.    The agriculture-based economy has been decimated by the often-violent seizure of thousands of white-owned farms for reallocation to black Zimbabweans, coupled with erratic rains...
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Calling Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe a "megalomaniac," a leading Zimbabwean dissident says international and regional pressure must be used to resolve an economic disaster in the African nation.
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Zimbabwe will collapse within six months, possibly leading to a state of emergency, says a report sent to aid workers.
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ZIMBABWEâS security forces have been put on high alert in the capital, Harare, ahead of todayâs ruling in the treason trial of the popular opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who could face the death sentence if found guilty.
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's government on Wednesday warned that the opposition would pay "a heavy price" for what it called a campaign of violence to oust it from power.
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Zimbabwe's President Mugabe accuses the US and Britain of a relentless campaign to destabilise his country.
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HARARE  - England skipper Michael Vaughan turned up the pressure ahead of the opening match against Zimbabwe by warning that his team will quit the tour if they are forced to meet Robert Mugabe.
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Living conditions in Zimbabwe will worsen unless the government takes urgent action to stabilise the economy, the IMF says.
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HARARE, Dec 11  (IPS) - With an economy tottering on the brink of collapse  and an unenviable political situation, civil society  organisations in Zimbabwe have every reason to worry about the  implications of the interim agreement on trade in goods that  their country has just signed as part of the economic partnership  agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU).
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Zambia said 1.5 million people would be displaced by floods and aid agencies warned the lives of tens of thousands were in danger on Monday as rising waters inundated southern Africa.
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GRANDE BAIE, Mauritius  - Southern Africa should  treat AIDS as a political, social and economic crisis because  it is killing off people crucial to its development, Malawian  President Bingu wa Mutharika said on Monday.
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Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, nursing a deep head wound and limping, was sent to hospital on Tuesday when he arrived at court with dozens of others arrested during political protests.
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Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was detained in hospital with a deep head wound on Tuesday as world outrage grew over the government's violent crackdown on political protests.
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Zimbabwe will put 40,000 more people on life saving anti-retroviral drugs by the end of the year despite an economic crisis that has hobbled the country's health care, state media reported on Tuesday.
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HARARE - Zimbabwe said it had put its security forces on high alert to deal with what it said was an opposition plan to unleash violence on Friday when a court is due to pass judgment in the treason trial of its leader.
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President Mugabe tells MPs that strict price controls will continue as Zimbabwe battles its worst ever economic crisis.