Grace Mugabe, Zimbabwe's First Shopper, can't get to Rome's luxury goods
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HARARE, Zimbabwe - The leader of Zimbabwe's opposition was detained by police for about nine hours Wednesday amid ominous signs the government is tightening its grip on the country less than four weeks before a presidential runoff election. (article 4)
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was held for nine hours by police Wednesday and formally warned for allegedly breaching a security law after a campaign visit to a small town in western Zimbabwe. (article 7)
The detention came as the government toughened a security crackdown on the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, just weeks before the June 27 presidential runoff election. (article 7)
In recent days, CARE, one of the largest nonprofit groups working in the country, has been ordered by Zimbabwe's government to suspend all operations, which help 500,000 of the country's most vulnerable people. (article 2)
Tsvangirai and about 14 party officials were being held at a police station in Lupane, north of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city, said George Sibotshiwe (article 5)
Shunned but tolerated in Rome, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on Tuesday took the podium at a UN food security summit to accuse the west of manipulating commodity markets and plotting their countries' downfall. (article 16)
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Mugabe, Zimbabwe, Tsvangirai, Opposition, Food |
Source articles
- Zimbabwe clamps down on aid groups (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 06/04/2008, 484 words)
- Zimbabwe blocks access by aid groups (boston.com, 06/04/2008, 682 words)
- Zimbabwe blocks 'political' aid (BBC News, 06/03/2008, 636 words)
- Zimbabwe opposition leader detained, then freed (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 06/04/2008, 1068 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > WORLD (FOX News, 06/04/2008, 712 words)
- Zimbabwean opposition leader detained by police - (baltimoresun.com, 06/04/2008, 245 words)
- Zimbabwe opposition candidate detained for nine hours (L.A. Times, 06/04/2008, 536 words)
- Zimbabwe Lawmaker Describes Beatings of Activists (Washington Post, 06/04/2008, 582 words)
- Q&A: Zimbabwe elections (BBC News, 06/04/2008, 878 words)
- Harare diary: Jingles ring hollow (BBC News, 06/05/2008, 467 words)
- Robert Mugabe accuses West of trying to starve him out (timesonline.co.uk, 06/04/2008, 2428 words)
- Mugabe food talks trip 'obscene' (BBC News, 06/02/2008, 521 words)
- Eyes on Mugabe at Rome summit (BBC News, 06/02/2008, 744 words)
- Mugabe stirs scorn at summit over food crisis (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 06/03/2008, 457 words)
- Grace Mugabe, Zimbabwe's First Shopper, can't get to Rome's luxury goods (timesonline.co.uk, 06/05/2008, 421 words)
- Shunned leaders attack west (ft.com, 06/03/2008, 456 words)
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