International Business News - ZWE http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Zimbabwe declared a national emergency over a cholera epidemic and the collapse of its health care system, and state media reported Thursday the government is seeking more international help to pay for food and drugs to combat the crisis. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/188784-zimbabwe-cholera.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081204/zimbabwe-declares-national-health-emergency.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081204/zimbabwe-declares-national-health-emergency.htm Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:46:37 EST A look at economic developments and stock-market activity around the world Wednesday: ___ http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/a-look-at-economic-developments-around-the-world.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:02:27 EST Riot police charged into a group of doctors and nurses protesting Zimbabwe's deepening economic and health crisis, eyewitnesses said Wednesday as deaths rose sharply from a cholera epidemic blamed on collapsing infrastructure. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/187865-aptopix-zimbabwe-violence.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/police-charge-protesters-in-zimbabwe.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/police-charge-protesters-in-zimbabwe.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:12:23 EST As children played near cesspools, their parents shook their heads at a public service announcement drifting over the radio Tuesday: It urged people to boil water before drinking it. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/187478-zimbabwe-water-crisis.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/zimbabwe-faces-water-cuts-amid-cholera-crisis.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/zimbabwe-faces-water-cuts-amid-cholera-crisis.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:09:00 EST Gunfire has broken out in downtown Harare when rampaging, unpaid soldiers attacked money changers and clashed with police. Associated Press reporters have seen running skirmishes between unarmed soldiers and police wielding guns and riot sticks. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081201/zimbabwe-soldiers-attack-money-changers-in-capital.htm Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:38:59 EST Police wielding guns and riot sticks skirmished with unarmed soldiers in Zimbabwe's capital Monday, after frustration over unpaid wages touched off a riot. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/186930-zimbabwe-chaos.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081201/zimbabwes-government-defies-court-on-land-reform.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081201/zimbabwes-government-defies-court-on-land-reform.htm Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:38:34 EST Zimbabwe health authorities say 425 people have died in a cholera outbreak and they are concerned it will worsen with the onset of the rainy season. More than 11,000 people have been sickened since August, the official Sunday Mail newspaper reported. The number of cases has shot up in the past two weeks. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081130/zimbabwe-cholera-toll-rises-as-rainy-season-comes.htm Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:42:01 EST A southern African regional court ruled Friday that 78 white Zimbabweans could keep their farms, saying the government's land grab policy was racially motivated. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081128/white-farmers-win-case-against-zimbabwe-land-grabs.htm Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:54:47 EST Britain will start next year to clear land mines left by Argentina on the Falkland Islands, a British ambassador said Friday. Ambassador John Duncan said Britain committed to a U.N. conference on the treaty banning the weapons that it will begin the clearing of the estimated 16,000 mines left on the islands. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081128/britain-to-start-clearing-mines-on-falklands.htm Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:18:02 EST Humanitarian organizations trying to prevent a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe from becoming a regional catastrophe are feeding unpaid hospital employees so they can keep working, the United Nations said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/184768-zimbabwe-cholera.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081128/un-takes-new-steps-in-zimbabwe.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081128/un-takes-new-steps-in-zimbabwe.htm Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:16:00 EST South Africa blocked Zimbabwe's opposition leader from flying to Morocco to receive an award because his travel documents had expired, officials said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/184319-zimbabwe-cholera.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081128/zimbabwe-opposition-says-agreement-at-hand.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081128/zimbabwe-opposition-says-agreement-at-hand.htm Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:31:45 EST The Israeli government has offered no plausible explanation for its unprecedented ban on international journalists entering the Gaza Strip, representatives of the foreign media said at a news conference Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081127/foreign-press-issues-plea-to-reopen-gaza-crossing.htm Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:56:44 EST Labor leaders called on Zimbabweans Thursday to demand more money for food and medication than they are allowed to take out of their bank accounts because of tight daily withdrawal limits. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081127/zimbabwe-labor-leaders-call-for-run-on-banks.htm Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:48:57 EST Zimbabwe, in the midst of a political and economic crisis, is seeing school attendance plummet, hospitals and clinics close, record cholera cases and millions going to bed hungry, according to a senior U.N. humanitarian official. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081127/zimbabwe-crisis-hurting-its-health-care-education.htm Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:02:43 EST Zimbabwe's opposition leader says talks aimed at resolving his country's political crisis are making no progress and that former South African President Thabo Mbeki should step down as mediator. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/zimbabwe-opposition-leader-no-progress-in-talks.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:02:50 EST Three makeshift tents in the hospital gardens of this gritty frontier town contain the most recent and unwelcome byproduct of Zimbabwe's destruction: Cholera. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/182225-zimbabwe-cholera.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/zimbabwes-new-export-cholera.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/zimbabwes-new-export-cholera.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:25:39 EST Zimbabwe's neighbors should close their borders in an attempt to bring down President Robert Mugabe, Botswana's foreign minister said Wednesday in the strongest call yet for action from Africa. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/botswana-close-zimbabwe-borders-to-hit-mugabe.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:42:47 EST An Associated Press photographer who was jailed by U.S. forces in Iraq and four other journalists from Uganda, Afghanistan and Cuba were honored Tuesday by a global press rights group for their work in war zones and confronting authoritarian regimes. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/181948-press-freedom-awards.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081125/press-freedom-group-honors-journalists.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081125/press-freedom-group-honors-journalists.htm Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:38:09 EST The Bush administration on Tuesday imposed financial sanctions on four people it called "cronies" of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe whose support allegedly allowed Mugabe to undermine democracy. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081125/us-imposes-sanctions-on-zimbabwe-cronies.htm Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:31:26 EST Lindsay Pasley is an eager young man in what used to be an older man's game--tobacco farming. He recently took 20 tons of his early prepared leaf to Clay's Tobacco Warehouse in the Appalachian foothills, where he said he earned enough to "have a nice Thanksgiving and Christmas." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/181815-tobacco-regrowth.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081125/10-years-after-settlement-tobacco-rebounds-in-us.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081125/10-years-after-settlement-tobacco-rebounds-in-us.htm Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:58:38 EST