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In Washington, U.S. President George W. Bush ordered sanctions and called for a UN arms embargo on [Robert Mugabe]'s regime, describing the election as "a sham... that ignored the will of the people of Zimbabwe" and condemning Mugabe's "blatant disregard" for human rights.
It was a different story in the Herald, Zimbabwe's state-run daily newspaper, which said that huge voter turnout was "a slap in the face for detractors who claimed this was a 'Mugabe election' that did not have the blessing of the generality of Zimbabweans.
In the days before Friday's vote, one television personality called Mugabe the "perfect presidential candidate for Zimbabwe" and another asked a government official whether backing opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was "the equivalent of selling your family into...
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According to Zimbabwe's Herald newspaper, a mouthpiece for the ZANU-PF party whose officials are believed to be reaping the proceeds from sales of Marange diamonds, Zimbabwean Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu told the meeting in Namibia that his country needed more technical help from the Kimberley Process to get Marange in order.
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... Africans accused of planning a coup in Zimbabwe against nearby Equatorial Guinea were constitution... Canadians in foreign jails" Calgary Herald (17 November 2003) A9. . (28) Treasury Board of Ca...
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...The Zimbabwe government-backed Harare Herald initially reported...
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...18 report in Zimbabwe's state-owned Herald newspaper. . Since 2000, the Zimbabwe government h...
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... off the souls of young people" (Sunday Herald, May 22, 2005). . Following the opposition's succe...
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SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader [Kim Jong Il]'s health has worsened and he can no longer walk normally, a South Korean legislator said yesterday. Liver and heart problems and worsening diabetes are to blame for the reclusive communist leader's difficulty in walking, opposition legislator Chung Hyung-keun said at a party meeting, according to his office.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- More than 80 international scientists and academics condemned South Africa's AIDS policies as ineffective and immoral and called for the firing of the country's health minister in a letter to President Thabo Mbeki released yesterday. The scientists called Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang an embarrassment to South Africa. They called "for the immediate removal of Tshabalala-Msimang as health minister a...
...Witch doctors OK'd. HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Tribal healers, often known as witch doctors, a... to grant sick leave of up to a week, the Herald newspaper, a government mouthpiece, reported. 'Cro...
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... and documentation organization in Zimbabwe and, except for a brief return to Canada (as senio..., he began his career with the Montreal Herald, then the Kingston Whig-Standard, the Regina Leade...
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... off the souls of young people" (Sunday Herald, May 22, 2005). . Following the opposition's succe...
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... by Bishop Kunonga in the state-controlled Herald newspaper in Harare that Bishop Mwamba is "an avow...