Full Coverage: Zimbabwe

30.03.2007 Zimbabwe's powerful religious elites have stepped in where African leaders failed to act this week, reprimanding the country's leadership for its oppressive tactics and warning that only "a new people-driven Constitution" can avert a mass uprising.

28.03.2007 The leader of Zimbabwe's opposition was arrested Wednesday as the country's president prepared to attend a regional summit meeting that will address Zimbabwe's crisis. Human rights lawyers have not yet been able to access the detainees.

27.03.2007 After years of inaction, leaders from 14 Southern African nations will hold crisis talks later this week to try to halt Zimbabwe's slide into "full-scale humanitarian, social, and political crisis."

27.03.2007 In his second dispatch from Harare, Ontibile Kababongwe says that police are closely monitoring University of Zimbabwe students for fear that they might demonstrate in solidarity with arrested civil society leaders.

20.03.2007 Kansainvälisen ay-liikkeen verkosto on aloittanut sähköpostikampanjan tukeakseen Zimbabwen ammattiyhdistysliikettä ja oppositiorintamaa, jotka kamppailevat presidentti Mugaben vallan alla. Viestissä vaaditaan maan hallitusta kunnioittamaan ay-liikkeen oikeutta järjestäytymiseen ja mielenilmauksiin.

16.03.2007 A series of quotes from those involved in last week's police clampdown and from other rights activists over the past few years demonstrate the seriousness of the situation in Zimbabwe today.
From: Pambazuka News

16.03.2007 "The consequences of Zimbabwe falling down are grave - maybe a collapse of the country, Zaire-style, or Tsvangirai’s death in police custody, apartheid-style." James Waters on why events there "are more than a little embarrassing - they make me look stupid."

14.03.2007 In his second dispatch from Harare, a journalist who must remain anonymous because of the danger faced by independent reporters says that police are closely monitoring University of Zimbabwe students for fear that they might demonstrate in solidarity with arrested civil society leaders.

14.03.2007 Zimbabwen turvallisuuspoliisi teki tiistaiaamuna väkivaltaisen iskun ammatillisen keskusjärjestön ZCTU:n keskustoimistoon Hararessa. Poliisi pahoinpiteli henkilökuntaa ja pidätti talouspäällikön. He myös takavarkoivat dokumentit, jotka koskivat huhtikuun alkuun kaavailtua yleislakkoa.

14.03.2007 The headquarters of the Zimbabwe Trade Union Congress were raided by security forces yesterday as part of a "concerted effort to try and crush all civic organisations", according to the organisation's president, Lovemore Matombo.
+ EYE-WITNESS REPORT: 'It is a sorry sight for Zimbabwe but we pray that freedom will come'

12.03.2007 In an exclusive, on-the-spot report for OneWorld, a Zimbabwean journalist - who must remain anonymous to protect his safety - reports on yesterday's police clampdown in Harare in which a teenager was killed and scores of prominent civil society leaders were beaten and arrested.

08.03.2007 Aid agencies have hit out at a clampdown by President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party on Zimbabwean church groups carrying out human rights work.

07.03.2007 Paheneva kurjuus hautaa YK:n vuosituhattavoitteet Zimbabwessa niin koulutuksen, köyhyyden kuin terveydenhuollonkin osalta. Maa on käytännössä konkurssissa, ja ihmisten elinolot vaikeutuvat jatkuvasti. "Olemme täysin hukassa”, zimbabwelainen opettaja Maxwell Tambarare sanoo.

07.03.2007 Zimbabwen hallitus on taas kiristämässä otettaan ay-aktiiveista ennen huhtikuun alkuun ilmoitettua yleislakkoa. "Lapsenlapsemme haluavat aikanaan tietää, mitä me teimme lopettaaksemme tämän sekasotkun. Siitä saamme inspiraatiota", Suomessa vieraillut Zimbabwen ammatillisen keskusjärjestön ZCTU:n johtaja Lovemore Matombo kertoo.

06.03.2007 Zimbabwean parents not only have to contend with fees they cannot afford, but also with expensive essentials like uniforms, which now cost 600 times more than they did in 2006. Inflation is now running at around 1,600 percent, nearly 80 percent of the workforce are unemployed, and the minimum wage is nowhere near the cost of a basket of basic household items, forcing many parents to withdraw their children from school.