International Business News - Zimbabwe 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 South Africa's presidential spokesman said Wednesday that power-sharing talks between Zimbabwe's ruling and opposition forces were under way at a secret location. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/south-africa-official-zimbabwes-talks-underway.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:26:29 EDT Australia's government denied a newspaper report Tuesday that claimed Zimbabwe has used Australian air space for illegal trade with China. The Age newspaper said the regime of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has regularly commandeered Air Zimbabwe flights through Australian air space over the Indian Ocean to China in the past year. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/australia-says-its-air-space-not-used-by-zimbabwe.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:09:50 EDT European Union foreign ministers agreed Tuesday to toughen sanctions against Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to pressure him to share power with the opposition ahead of the opening of talks between Zimbabwe's rival parties in South Africa. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/95617-zimbabwe-talks.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/diplomats-zimbabwe-talks-to-get-under-way.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/diplomats-zimbabwe-talks-to-get-under-way.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:01:15 EDT Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe and his main political rival have signed an agreement on Monday to begin power-sharing negotiations to end the country's political crisis. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/94910-thabo-mbeki.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/zimbabwe-mugabe-tsvangirai-mbeki-elections.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/zimbabwe-mugabe-tsvangirai-mbeki-elections.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:54:21 EDT Three months after the voting and violence began, Zimbabwe's embattled President Robert Mugabe and his bitter opposition rival agreed Monday to hold talks immediately about sharing power to end the country's political crisis. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/94877-robert-mugabe.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/opposition-zimbabwe-power-sharing-talks-deal-made.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/opposition-zimbabwe-power-sharing-talks-deal-made.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:23:34 EDT The photographs of the tortured body of an opposition official are blurry but chilling. Posted on the "This is Zimbabwe" blog, they show charred, lacerated limbs and blank eyes staring out from the face of the official, Gift Mutsvungunu, frozen in a death grimace. A note accompanying the pictures says the picture quality is bad because the photographer was shaking with fear. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080720/zimbabweans-use-blogs-text-messages-for-info.htm Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:54:37 EDT Zimbabwe's beaten down opposition may end up being forced to accept what it swears is unacceptable--a power-sharing deal with President Robert Mugabe. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080719/sharing-power-with-mugabe-may-be-only-option.htm Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:44:47 EDT White farmers asked a regional court Thursday to hold the Zimbabwean government in contempt, saying government supporters were beating and harassing plaintiffs in a suit challenging Zimbabwe's farm evictions. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080718/white-farmers-want-zimbabwe-govt-held-in-contempt.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:48:22 EDT White farmers asked a regional court Thursday to hold the Zimbabwean government in contempt, saying government supporters were beating and harassing plaintiffs in a suit challenging Zimbabwe's farm evictions. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080717/white-farmers-want-zimbabwe-govt-held-in-contempt.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:11:45 EDT Official inflation soared to 2.2 million percent in Zimbabwe--by far the highest in the world--and has shot as high as 70 million percent in the past year for some basic goods sold on the black market, the state central bank said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080717/official-zimbabwe-inflation-at-2-2-million-percent.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:15:27 EDT Zimbabwe's opposition said Tuesday it hopes a meeting this week between the South African president and a top African Union official will result in a second mediator joining efforts to resolve their nation's crisis. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080715/zimbabwe-opposition-calls-for-2nd-mediator.htm Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:45:45 EDT Zimbabwe's opposition says 14 of its members have been freed after being cleared of charges of committing political violence. The Movement for Democratic Change says the activists were acquitted Monday after the state failed to produce its key witness--a police officer who died early that day. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080715/14-zimbabwe-opposition-activists-freed.htm Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:09:45 EDT British Prime Minster Gordon Brown will press the European Union to take harsher action against Zimbabwe, after Russia and China vetoed proposed new sanctions at the U.N. Security Council, his office said Saturday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080712/britain-to-press-eu-to-act-against-zimbabwe-regime.htm Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:55:28 EDT All Africans must speak out about injustices in places like Zimbabwe, Liberia's leader said Saturday during a speech honoring former South African President Nelson Mandela. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/90291-south-africa-mandela.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080712/liberias-president-denounces-zimbabwe-vote.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080712/liberias-president-denounces-zimbabwe-vote.htm Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:49:51 EDT The failure of the U.S. campaign for international sanctions on Zimbabwe's leaders returns the focus to South African efforts to end the deadly political crisis and to questions about whether President Thabo Mbeki is the right mediator. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/90134-un-zimbabwe.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080712/focus-now-on-south-africas-zimbabwe-efforts.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080712/focus-now-on-south-africas-zimbabwe-efforts.htm Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:15:49 EDT Russia and China vetoed U.S.-proposed sanctions on Zimbabwe's leaders Friday, the global community's latest attempt to take action against an authoritarian regime widely criticized for a violent and one-sided presidential election. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/89883-robert-mugabe.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/russia-china-veto-sanctions-zimbabwe.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/russia-china-veto-sanctions-zimbabwe.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:28:28 EDT Zimbabwe's opposition party reported Friday that at least 113 of its members have been killed in political violence since the country held its first round of presidential voting in March. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/89550-zimbabwe-elections.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/zimbabwe-government-opposition-meet-in-sa.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/zimbabwe-government-opposition-meet-in-sa.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:20:35 EDT Zimbabwe warned the U.N. Security Council Thursday that the sanctions it is considering could push the African nation toward civil war. Zimbabwe's U.N. mission also said in a letter to the council that the punitive measures proposed by the U.S. and Britain against President Robert Mugabe's government could turn Zimbabwe into another Somalia, a Horn of Africa nation where warring factions have clashed for the past 17 years. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/zimbabwe-warns-un-of-civil-war.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:16:23 EDT Zimbabwean government and opposition officials met in South Africa on Thursday to try to find a way out of their country's crisis, with the opposition pressing for an end to attacks on its supporters. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/89450-zimbabwe-elections.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/zimbabwean-factions-resume-talks-in-south-africa.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/zimbabwean-factions-resume-talks-in-south-africa.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:03:18 EDT The European Parliament on Thursday called for tighter economic sanctions against President Robert Mugabe's government in Zimbabwe and urged the international community, including African nations, not to recognize his re-election. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/eu-parliament-calls-for-mugabe-sanctions.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:56:12 EDT