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Zimbabwe sanctions vetoed at UN

A draft resolution to impose sanctions on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and a number of his key allies has been vetoed at the UN Security Council.

Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai withdraws party from election saying to continue would cost supporters' lives

The opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday pulled out of this week's presidential election in Zimbabwe, saying he is not prepared to ask people to die by voting for him, and accusing Robert Mugabe of "waging a war against the people..."

Zimbabwe On The Brink: Eyewitness

George Nyathi writes from his home in Harare: "The police foot patrols have been heightened with hordes of riot police officers now a common sight on the streets of Harare and its twin city, Bulawayo. The situation is really tense and signs are that this once vibrant country is headed for serious disaster pending the announcement of the final election results..."

No help for Zimbabwe's homeless

Church leaders say that almost nothing has been done to house 700,000 people in Zimbabwe who lost their homes and livelihoods in demolitions last year.

Indictment of the world

The past week's events in the Middle East have confirmed Zimbabwean's fears that in eyes of the world some lives are intrinsically more valuable than others. And we now know without a doubt that our lives, those of millions of Zimbabweans ravaged by years of misrule and the extinction of democracy in our homeland, are less valuable than those of the Israeli people.

Zimbabwe 'asks farmers to return'

Zimbabwe's white farmers say they have been invited to apply for land - in an apparent U-turn by the government which has seized their land.

Zimbabweans have 'shortest lives'

Life in Zimbabwe is shorter than anywhere else according to a World Health Organisation report. Zimbabwe's women have an average life expectancy of 34 years and men on average do not live past 37. women's life expectancy had fallen by two years in the last 12 months. Poverty, because of the crumbling economy, and deaths from Aids are responsible for the decline.