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The BBC reports:

On Thursday, [Zimbabwe president Robert] Mugabe said a deadly cholera outbreak had been stopped, as aid workers warned it was worsening.
He said Western powers were plotting to use cholera as an excuse to invade and overthrow him.
The World Health Organization says the outbreak has not been contained and the death toll has […]

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Okay, maybe unofficially.
On June 6, the National Post reported that “It’s a sad day when those that can afford to buy a loaf of bread need to cart 600-million Zimbabwean dollars to the store.” Less than two months later, a sad day has turned downright miserable: you could trudge to that same store with […]

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Zimbabwe’s opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, announced yesterday that his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party is pulling out of the presidential run-off election, even though he won the main election held a few weeks ago. He says President Robert Mugabe’s widespread use of rape, torture, beatings and murder to intimidate opposition voters has made […]

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Human Rights Watch has just released its report on the ongoing violence in Zimbabwe, entitled “Bullets for Each of You.” The title is taken from a Zimbabwean army address to villagers in Karoi, a small city in the province of Mashonaland West:

“If you vote for MDC in the presidential runoff election, you have seen […]

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A Chinese freighter brimming with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and three million rounds of AK-47 ammo has docked at the South African port of Durban, with Robert Mugabe’s landlocked fiefdom in Zimbabwe as its intended final destination. The shipment is especially disconcerting because Mugabe has refused to release two-week-old election results that would almost certainly […]

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In spite of official recognition of Mugabe’s loss in the parliamentary vote, nearly two weeks later the government is still refusing to release the results of the all-important presidential election, even though independent observers and early official vote counts show the MDC’s Morgan Tsvangirai as the clear winner. Early fears were that Mugabe’s party, […]

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Zimbabwe’s voters may have finally put an end to Robert Mugabe’s wacky reign of terror, error and kleptocracy.
Results posted outside voting centres seemed to show a landslide win on Saturday for opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s party, but Mugabe’s government has warned that any claims of victory before the official results are released will be treated […]

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