Posts Tagged ‘Mugabe’

Mugabe says talks ‘inconclusive’

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe says talks with the opposition reached no result, but will continue later on Monday.

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Zimbabwe to discuss sharing power

Monday, July 21st, 2008

President Robert Mugabe, left shakes the hands of Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the main opposition leader in Zimbabwe at the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the two parties in Harare, Monday, July, 21, 2008. Both of the leaders said they were committed to the talks. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)Zimbabwe’s president and opposition leader on Monday signed an agreement calling for formal talks on sharing power.


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Inside Mugabe’s violent crackdown

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

As the one-time "breadbasket of Africa" plunges deeper into crisis, two prominent Africa-watchers analyze President Robert Mugabe’s devastating legacy. Produced by NBC News' Yuka Tachibana. (NBC News Web Extra)When Robert Mugabe told security officials he had lost Zimbabwe’s presidential election and planned to give up power, a top general responded the choice was not Mugabe’s alone to make.

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AU unlikely to confront Mugabe

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Fellow African leaders showed little willingness to stand up to President Robert Mugabe and condemn the longtime Zimbabwe ruler’s disputed, violent reign Sunday ahead of his arrival at an African Union summit.

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Mugabe sworn in after discredited vote

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, centre, is seen at his inauguration ceremony at State house in Harare, Sunday, June, 29, 2008. Mugabe was sworn in  following a run off election in which he was the sole candidate following the withdrawal of Morgan Tsvangirai, the main opposition leader in Zimbabwe. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)President Robert Mugabe has been sworn in for a sixth term, just hours after electoral officials said he won a discredited runoff.


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Mugabe claims ’sweeping victory’

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Robert Mugabe says he is heading for a “sweeping victory” in the unopposed run-off vote to choose Zimbabwe’s president.

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Zimbabwean leader’s reality: Mugabe is Right

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

epa01396459 Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe with a young child at his last election run off campaign rally in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe, 26 June 2008. President Mugabe used his final campaign speech to make a fresh offer to negotiate with the opposition MDC after the ballot.  EPA/STRRobert Mugabe’s mother told him when he was a child that he had been chosen by God to be a great leader. No wonder he thinks only divine power — not elections, not foreign critics, not a crumbling economy or a much younger opposition leader — can unseat him.

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Mugabe ‘preparing to be sworn in’

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Robert Mugabe is expected to be sworn in as Zimbabwe’s president on Sunday after a landslide poll win, official sources say.

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Mugabe says he’s open to talks

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, center, and his wife Grace, right, greet supporters on their arrival at an election rally at Mahuwe business centre, in Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe, Wednesday June 25, 2008. Zimbabwe plunged deeper into international isolation just two days before a presidential runoff widely dismissed as a farce, as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II stripped Mugabe of his knighthood in the most high-profile rebuke to date of his regime of terror. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said Thursday that he is “open to discussion” with the opposition, which is boycotting Friday’s runoff vote.

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Zimbabwe opposition pulls out of runoff

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Some thousands of ruling party Zanu PF militia, some of them armed with sticks and stones, occupy the venue of the proposed Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) rally in Harare, Sunday, June, 22, 2008.   The main opposition party was given approval by the courts to hold a rally ahead of a run off election set for June 27, but some thousands of ruling party militants blockaded the site of the opposition's main pre-election rally Sunday in yet another show of the intimidation that has characterized President Robert Mugabe's campaign.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew Sunday from the runoff election against President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, citing mounting violence against his party.

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