Harare - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai held talks Thursday on critical issues that threaten to derail their unity government, including Mugabe's snatch of the telecommunications portfolio from his rival's party.
Zimbabwe's deputy prime minister Arthur Mutambara, leader of a breakaway faction of Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), who is the third signatory to September's power-sharing agreement confirmed the meeting, which he is also attending.
New York, Apr 10 : Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's aides are using violence to get amnesty for their past crimes.
Top lieutenants of the president are trying to force the political opposition into granting them amnesty for their past crimes by abducting, detaining and torturing opposition officials and activists, The New York Times quoted a senior member of Mugabe's party, as saying.
Harare - Expectations that decades of violent repression meted out by President Robert Mugabe's henchmen would end with the creation of the new coalition government have been bitterly disappointed, a leading local human-rights body said Thursday.
Instead, "not much has changed yet" to the "almost inherent Zimbabwean culture of political victimization and discrimination," said the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO forum in its latest report.
Hong Kong - Hong Kong lawmakers and human rights activists on Tuesday called for the wife of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to be banned from the city after she was granted diplomatic immunity over an alleged assault.
Grace Mugabe, 43, escaped prosecution for allegedly attacking a British photographer who took pictures of her on a shopping trip to Hong Kong in January.
Hong Kong - The wife of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has been granted diplomatic immunity over an alleged attack on a newspaper photographer in Hong Kong, officials said Sunday.
The city's Department of Justice decided 43-year-old Grace Mugabe is entitled to immunity despite a police investigation that concluded there was enough evidence to prosecute her over the January 15 incident.
Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said Saturday his party's fight with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change was over and demanded an end to political violence in the country.
Mugabe was addressing mourners, including Tsvangirai, at the burial of former army commander Vitalis Zvinavashe at Heroes' Acre cemetery in Harare.
Tsvangirai attended, despite being himself in mourning for his late wife, Susan.
Harare - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai held talks Thursday on critical issues that threaten to derail their unity government, including Mugabe's snatch of the telecommunications portfolio from his rival's party.
New York, Apr 10 : Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's aides are using violence to get amnesty for their past crimes.
Harare - Expectations that decades of violent repression meted out by President Robert Mugabe's henchmen would end with the creation of the new coalition government have been bitterly disappointed, a leading local human-rights body said Thursday.
Hong Kong - Hong Kong lawmakers and human rights activists on Tuesday called for the wife of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to be banned from the city after she was granted diplomatic immunity over an alleged assault.
Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said Saturday his party's fight with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change was over and demanded an end to political violence in the country.
