Harare - Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) claimed Saturday that it had unearthed a "plot" by government lawyers and intelligence agents to secure convictions against its lawmakers in a bid to reverse its majority in parliament.
"Johannes Tomana, the deputy attorney-general is leading this plot," the party said in a statement, without giving details.
Tomana could not be reached for comment but deputy information minister Bright Matonga dismissed the claims.
Harare - The Zimbabwe government finally yielded Friday to major pressure and announced it was lifting a three-month ban on the distribution of food aid in the hunger-stricken country, according to state radio.
A bulletin quoted a statement from the welfare ministry as saying that the government had "with immediate effect lifted the suspension of operations of private voluntary organizations and non-governmental organizations."
Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is about to form a new government on his own, effectively breaking off talks with his pro-democracy opponents, the Movement for Democratic Change, state press reported Wednesday.
"We shall soon be setting up a government," the state-controlled daily Herald newspaper quoted him as saying. "The MDC does not want to come in apparently." He said he would be appoint cabinet ministers who would be "managers." He described his last cabinet as "the worst in history."
Harare - Zimbabwe's new parliament was to be sworn in Monday in the first part of a plan by President Robert Mugabe to try to force opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai into a power-sharing deal on his terms.
The 210 members of the lower House of Assembly are to be sworn in by the clerk of parliament in a colourful ceremony in Harare. Members of the Senate or upper house, will also be sworn in.
Mugabe's move to convene parliament risks derailing talks between his Zanu-PF party and Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on the formation of a government of national unity.
Harare - Newly elected legislators of the Movement for Democratic Change, the main party opposing President Robert Mugabe's ZANU(PF), will attend the controversial opening of Zimbabwe's new parliament next week, a spokesman said Friday.
"We are gathering on Sunday and we will get sworn in on Monday at 10 am," said Eddie Cross, an MDC member of parliament from the western city of Bulawayo.
"Then at the first sitting on Monday afternoon, we will vote in a new speaker," Cross said.
Harare - Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) claimed Saturday that it had unearthed a "plot" by government lawyers and intelligence agents to secure convictions against its lawmakers in a bid to reverse its majority in parliament.
Harare - The Zimbabwe government finally yielded Friday to major pressure and announced it was lifting a three-month ban on the distribution of food aid in the hunger-stricken country, according to state radio.
Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is about to form a new government on his own, effectively breaking off talks with his pro-democracy opponents, the Movement for Democratic Change, state press reported Wednesday.
Harare - Zimbabwe's new parliament was to be sworn in Monday in the first part of a plan by President Robert Mugabe to try to force opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai into a power-sharing deal on his terms.
Harare - Newly elected legislators of the Movement for Democratic Change, the main party opposing President Robert Mugabe's ZANU(PF), will attend the controversial opening of Zimbabwe's new parliament next week, a spokesman said Friday.
