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‘Politics of demonization’ breeding division and fear

February 22, 2017 Global Author#ThisFlag, Angola, Botswana, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, FeesMustFall, human rights, India, Iran, mass atrocities, Politics of demonization, South Africa, Thailand and Turkey, Trump, Zimbabwe

The State of the World’s Human Rights, delivers the most comprehensive analysis of the state of human rights around the world, covering 159 countries including 10 in Southern Africa. It warns that punishment of dissenting views and politically-motivated attacks on peaceful protests and the right to freedom of expression are on the rise in countries such as South Africa, Zambia… Read More

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Zimbabwe: Dangers of an Exclusively Religious Nation

December 1, 2016 Global AuthorBishop Muzorewa, Mbuya Nehanda, Religious Nation, secular values., Sweden, the Czech Republic or Japan, Zimbabwe

I was born and raised in Zimbabwe and I never got to witness the struggle that brought my country independence. I grew up enchanted by stories of the liberation struggle and as a child, one of my many ambitions was to become a soldier…apart from being a superhero with super powers. Like everyone else born after independence, I was referred… Read More

Comrade Robert Mugabe assumes African Union leadership

January 30, 2015 Global AuthorAfrican Union, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe president calls on Africa to harness resources for its own ends as members urged to tackle infrastructure, climate change, conflict and Ebola Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s 90-year-old president, has assumed the chairmanship of the African Union (AU) with a call for members to improve infrastructure and tackle climate change, conflict and Ebola, and with a familiar rallying cry that Africa’s... Read More

African Union: President Robert Mugabe should urgently address human rights concerns

January 30, 2015 Global AuthorAfrican Union, AU, Boko Haram, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe should use his position as the Chairperson of the African Union (AU) to address key human rights concerns in different parts of the continent, including his own country, Amnesty International said today. President Robert Mugabe takes over the rotating position from the Mauritanian president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz which will see him in charge for the... Read More

Zimbabwe Supreme Court to rule on access to lawful abortion

March 24, 2014 Global AuthorAbigail Matsvai, Abortion laws, OSISA, Zimbabwe, ZWLA

Harare, 24 March – On Tuesday 25th March, the Zimbabwe Supreme Court will deliver its judgment in a landmark sexual and reproductive rights case brought by the Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association (ZWLA). The ZWLA argued that the government should pay maintenance for a child who was born because the authorities failed to provide the mother – a rape survivor –... Read More

Zimbabwe tops Africa’s literacy rate as Malawi trails at position 28

January 17, 2014 Global AuthorAfrica News, kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Tunisia, Zimbabwe

BLANTYRE--Malawi has been ranked 28 on the literacy rate record in Africa whereas Zimbabwe has for the third consecutive time been ranked at the apex of the list, the latest list by the African Economist Magazine reveals. Malawi is on position 28 with 62.7 percent, 30 percent behind Zimbabwe which has 90.7 percent. Education activists in the country have attributed... Read More

Why America and Europe will work behind the scene to have Joyce Banda elected

January 15, 2014 Global AuthorApartheid South Africa, Cashgate, FRELIMO, Joyce Banda, Malawi, Mozambique, Muluzi, Renamo, USA, Zimbabwe

Soon after independence in 1975, the country of Mozambique was plunged into a protracted civil war pitting the ruling FRELIMO party against the RENAMO rebels. RENAMO fighters will always be remembered as some of the most brutal fighters Africa has ever seen. In the later 1980s a woman refugee crossed into Mulanje district. Her story was particularly distressing. Read More

Mugabe savages West as new term starts

August 23, 2013 Global AuthorAfrican Leaders, mugabe, UK, USA, Zimbabwe

HARARE — Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe began a new five-year term in office on Thursday and immediately launched the now traditional vitriolic attack on the West, which has questioned the manner of his landslide victory in elections held last month. . Read More

Zimbabwe: Women forced to flee their homes for refusing to reveal their vote

August 7, 2013 Global AuthorAmnesty international, election fraud, mugabe, Zimbabwe

Women political activists in rural Zimbabwe told Amnesty International they have been threatened with violence and forced to flee with their children for refusing to reveal their vote to supporters of Robert Mugabe’s party during harmonized elections. The women said they resisted instructions from Zanu-PF supporters to feign illiteracy, blindness or physical injury, which would have meant someone else marking… Read More

Zimbabwe’s MDC considers protests against Mugabe landslide

August 2, 2013 Global Authorelections, mugabe, Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe

Tsvangirai calls Zimbabwe election “huge farce” (01:30) By Ed Cropley HARARE | Fri Aug 2, 2013 10:49am EDT (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change said on Friday it could take to the streets to challenge President Robert Mugabe’s victory in elections it rejects as a farce and which face skepticism from the West. No results of the presidential vote on July 31… Read More

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