Soon to depart his Harare post, U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee in an interview with VOA on Thursday described as "wrong-minded" those who argue that the national unity government formed in February might need to stay in place for ...Read More
HARARE (AFP) – An arms dealer who said he was tortured into testifying will be allowed to take the stand in the terror trial of a top ally of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a judge ruled Wednesday. The trial of Roy ...Read More
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A judge ruled Wednesday in a trial that has shaken Zimbabwe's coalition government that defense lawyers for a top prime minister's aide can raise allegations that the main witness against him was tortured. Judge Chinembiri Bhunu also ...Read More
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -A senior U.S. diplomat flew in Tuesday to try to revive a U.S.-brokered pact between Honduras' deposed president and the coup-imposed government ahead of elections this month. Ousted President Manuel Zelaya declared the accord a failure last week when ...Read More
Beirut, Lebanon - Lebanon's feuding leaders have struck a deal on the formation of a new government – five months after a Western-backed coalition secured a narrow electoral victory against the Hezbollah-led opposition. The formation of a national unity government, which ...Read More
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's ally Roy Bennett went on trial accused of terrorism on Monday in a case that has stoked tensions in the unity government of Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF.
After initial arguments, the ...Read More
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri will announce a new national unity government in the next two days after clinching a deal with the opposition on its make-up, politicians from both sides said on Saturday.
Lebanon has been without ...Read More
The United States Friday expressed disappointment that efforts to resolve the four-month-long political crisis in Honduras have hit another roadblock. Rival parties in the dispute over who is the Central American country's rightful president failed to meet a deadline Thursday ...Read More
Manuel Zelaya, the ousted president, said the deal had failed after the interim leader announced a government without his participation.
"Practically speaking, we have decided not to continue with this theatre of Mr Micheletti," Mr Zelaya said, speaking on Radio Globo.
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South African President Jacob Zuma is expected to take a leading role in monitoring follow-through by the partners in Zimbabwe's government of national unity in implementing a deal concluded late Thursday in Maputo, Mozambique, by the GNU principals with the ...Read More
Johannesburg; and Harare, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's on-again, off-again coalition government is on again. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai announced Thursday that he had suspended his "disengagement" from the powersharing government with President Robert Mugabe, adding that Mr. Mugabe has 30 days ...Read More
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says his party has ended its partial boycott of the power sharing government and has given President Robert Mugabe one month to resolve outstanding disputes in the coalition. Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai made the announcement ...Read More
An aide to ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says a deal designed to end the country's political crisis has failed, after interim leader Roberto Micheletti announced the formation of a new cabinet.
Mr. Micheletti said late Thursday he is installing a ...Read More
* Businesses with asset value over $500,000 affected * Move could unsettle investors * Chamber of Mines taken by surprise (Adds Chamber of Mines, paragraphs 2-3) HARARE, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government has proposed that Zimbabweans take 51 percent ownership of all foreign ...Read More
Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Honduras’s acting president RobertoMicheletti formed a national unity government without the backingof Manuel Zelaya, the ousted head of state, Agence France-Pressereported. Micheletti said in a statement read on national radio andtelevision late yesterday his Cabinet was created ...Read More
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran de facto leader Roberto Micheletti said on Thursday night he would install a national unity government without the participation of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. The rival leaders had agreed last week to end a four-month political crisis ...Read More
JOHANNESBURG — Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe announced at the conclusion of a gathering of southern African leaders late Thursday night that his party had called off its boycott of cabinet meetings with President Robert Mugabe, but it was ...Read More
