Thursday, January 15, 2009
Rights activist is ‘threat to society’
A top Zimbabwean human rights activist facing charges of recruiting people for insurgency training and terrorist bombings is a “threat to society” and must remain in custody, the country’s attorney general said. The activist, Zimbabwe Peace Project director Jestina Mukoko, is behind bars with eight other activists, mainly from the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change. They have been jailed on remand for allegedly recruiting people for banditry training in Botswana.
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Zimbabwe cholera epidemic: over 2,000 dead
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe has now killed more than 2,000 people, it was confirmed today. Almost 40,000 have also now contracted the normally preventable disease as the crisis resulting from a collapsed health service threatens the entire region. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said the outbreak in Robert Mugabe’s shattered nation now represented the worst in Africa in nearly a decade.
MorePasipamire Recounts Ordeal After Abduction: Zimbabwe
An opposition activist abducted by Zimbabwean security forces last month recalled Tuesday spending long nights listening to the screams of other detainees being tortured. An opposition activist abducted by Zimbabwean security forces last month recalled Tuesday spending long nights listening to the screams of other detainees being tortured.
MoreZambia to dispatch cholera kit to Zimbabwe
Zambia has purchased drugs and other medical kits which will be dispatched to help neighboring Zimbabwe contain cholera which has killed hundreds of people in the country, a senior government official said here Tuesday. Ministry of Health Spokesperson Dr Canicius Banda said the medical kit, valued at 2 billion Zambian kwacha (approximately 400,000 U.S. dollars), is expected to be dispatched to Zimbabwe on Wednesday.
MoreZimbabwe Education in Chaos as 2008 Exams Still Unmarked
Zimbabwe’s government is frantically mobilising teachers to mark last year’s public examinations, amid fears schools may fail to reopen for the new term on January 27, plunging education deeper into chaos. Zimbabwe’s once admired public education sector is in crisis, weighed down by incessant strikes for more pay by teachers that disrupted learning for most of last year and a severe brain drain that has seen thousands of the best qualified teachers leave for better paying jobs abroad.
Prayerful Fast for Zimbabwe
Two clerics have joined Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, in fasting in solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe, which faces a collapsing economic and political order and reports of a military alert amid fears of a coup - writes Hans Pienaar.
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