Stories about Zimbabwe from April, 2008
Zimbabwe: Bread and Roses
Comrade Fatso is a blogger as well as a musician in Zimbabwe. Listen to his song, Bread and Roses: “The hit song from Comrade Fatso and Chabvondoka's new album, House...
Zimbabwe: Operation Mavhoterapapi
Victims of Operation Mavhoterapapi in Zimbabwe: “It has been reported that a teacher in Mudzi has also been murdered and 8 women have been abducted. We are awaiting verification of...
Zimbabwe: Boycott Independence celebrations
Should Zimbabweans boycott Independence celebrations?: “A young man has written to Kubatana asking us to forward his “plea” to people to boycott the Independence celebrations even if they want to...
Zimbabwe: A safe waypoint for the chinese Olympic Torch
Tomas Muarramuassa comments on his blog, Muarramuassando[Pt], about the passage of the Olympic Torch by Africa. He says it should come to Zimbabwe because “the only place in the world...
Mugabe criticized because he endangered White interests
In a commentary at Babilown (Fr), Eloi Goutchili compares Robert Mugabe and Paul Biya, president of Cameroon for over 25 years, concluding that only real difference between them is the...
Zimbabwe: Questioning Mbeki's power
Hope is totally disappointed by the South African President, Thabo Mbeki: “Mbeki, after going to Harare to see Mugabe, says today that there is “no crisis”…I cannot believe I am...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe's rebel government
Robb discusses Mugabe's decision not to attend SADC meeting: “So when Zambian President Mwanawasa called for an emergency meeting of SADC in Lusaka today, Mugabe couldn't be bothered to attend....
Zimbabwe: The opposition leader, Robert Mugabe!
Hope blogs about the “opposition leader, Robert Mugabe”: “The opposition leader, Robert Mugabe, has a long history of using taxpayers’ money to prop up his regime. His election rallies and...
Zimbabwe: Blank Billboards
Comrade Fatso writing about billboards in Zimbabwe: “The billboards are blank. Like the people’s faces. Everything seems to have stopped. Billboards that used to be megaphones for products now become...
Zimbabwe: Post-election violence
Post-election violent attacks in Zimbabwe: “The two men in these images are both MDC office bearers in the Mashonaland East Province of Zimbabwe. They were beaten on Tuesday night by...
Zimbabwe: Election officials arrested
Arrests of election officials in Zimbabwe: “Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights confirm the details of the arrests of three more ZEC officials.”
Zimbabwe: Bread, Milk and Toilet Paper
Comrade Fatso on the situation in Zimbabwe: “The parallel realities we live in have become the only reality now. The other one is paralysed. So bread is now hustled on...
Tunisian Journalist Covers Elections in Zimbabwe
Bassam Bounenni, a Tunisian journalist who blogs at Wherever I Roam, That's My Home, describes covering the elections in Zimbabwe for Al Jazeera [Fr]: “We have been stopped repeatedly and...
Trinidad & Tobago: This & That
Trinidadian blogger Jeremy Taylor lets loose on everything from the tour of the Olympic torch to the elections in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe: Fighting for democracy with FrontlineSMS
Kenny writes about the use of FrontlineSMS in Zimbabwe: “A local NGO seeking to promote human rights and good governance, Kubatana were the very first users of FrontlineSMS when it...
Zimbabwe: An eyewitness account
An eyewitness account of elections in Zimbabwe: “I travelled up to Zimbabwe on Tuesday the 25th March to help the MDC Tsvangirai faction with election preparations. I volunteered to help...
Zimbabwe: Verifying votes in secrecy
Brenda Burrel blogging about the latest turn of events in Zimbabwe: “According to the MDC’s latest press statement the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has disbanded the National Command Centre and...
Iran: Mugabe and Ahmadinejad
Moeeni, an Iranian blogger, has published a photo of Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with president Robert Mugabe from Zimbabwe. The blogger considers[Fa] Ahmadinejad's close relationship with leaders like Mugabe who...
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe in photos final edition
The story of Zimbabwe in pictures has come to an end: “Many thanks for your overwelming response to our photo-newsletter. This is our final edition. As you read this Zimbabweans...
Zimbabwe: Media crakdown
Peta Thornycroft blogs about media crackdown in Zimbabwe: “There has been a heavy crackdown on Zimbabwe’s small group of journalists, many of them forced to work under cover.”
Zimbabwe: A country of starving billionaires
From My Zimbabwe today: “Now the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has rewarded the people of Zimbabwe with a new $50 000 000.00 bank note to reduce the number of notes...
