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  1. S. Africa's Mbeki Awaited In Harare As Power-Sharing Deal Remains Elusive

  2. Tsvangirai to Tour Southern Africa as Zimbabwe Talks Remain Deadlocked

    by , 19th August 2008 at 07:30 AM (Tracking the News)
    Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai begins a tour of southern Africa Monday, seeking help in advancing power-sharing talks with the party of President Robert Mugabe.

    The two leaders left a regional summit in South Africa Sunday still deadlocked over who would control a proposed national unity government.

    Zimbabwe's justice minister, Patrick Chinamasa, told state media today that the negotiations will continue under the mediation of South African President ...
  3. Zimbabwe Opposition Says Manicaland Constituency Sealed By War Veterans

    by , 19th August 2008 at 07:28 AM (Tracking the News)
    By Jonga Kandemiiri

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    Zimbabwe opposition officials on Monday reported another abduction in Manicaland province following the brief kidnapping last week of the wife of an opposition activist there.

    MDC officials ...
  4. UN official to monitor Zim power-sharing talks

    by , 7th August 2008 at 08:55 AM (Tracking the News)
    By Bathandwa Mbola

    Pretoria - A senior United Nations political official is expected to arrive in South Africa on Wednesday to monitor the power-sharing talks which are paving a way to end the instability in Zimbabwe.

    Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Haile Menkerios will be back in the country in his capacity as the UN’s high-level representative to the Reference Group which was set up by President Thabo Mbeki.

    Mr Menkerios’s arrival ...
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  5. Banks run out of money

    by , 7th August 2008 at 08:48 AM (Tracking the News)
    HARARE, 4 August 2008 (IRIN) - Attempts to tame Zimbabwe's multimillion percent annual inflation rate had an inauspicious beginning on 1 August when banks turned customers away after running out of cash.

    Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono sees the introduction of a new currency that will lop off ten zeroes from the old currency, effectively revaluing Z$10 billion to one Zimbabwe dollar, as the solution to the country's hyperinflation.

    On 4 August, US$1 was equivalent ...
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