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Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace
The SwampBy Mark Silva updated at 11:45 am, 2 and 3:45 pm EDT President Barack Obama, who has pledged to place diplomacy ahead of confrontation and reached out to a skeptical world with offers of mutual understanding, was awarded the Nobel......Tags: Football, Human Rights, Los Angeles Times, Islam, Politics
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Zimbabwe activists fined for watching Arab Spring video
World NowMunyaradzi Gwisai was sentenced to pay $500 and serve 420 hours of community service when a Zimbabwe court handed down its decision Wednesday. So were five other Zimbabwean activists. What landed them in court? Watching a video of the Arab Spring... -
Security forces accused of poaching elephants, rhinos in Zimbabwe
L.A. UnleashedHARARE, Zimbabwe — The leader of a U.N. program to protect endangered species on Thursday charged that Zimbabwean security forces are spearheading poaching of elephants and rhinos in the troubled country. At a news conference Thursday in Harare,... -
Mugabe signs constitution into law, paving way for vote
ReutersHARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe signed a new constitution into law on Wednesday, replacing a 33-year-old document forged in the dying days of British colonial rule and paving the way for an election later this year. Approved...Tags: Elections, National Government, Robin Williams, United Nations, Politics
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Zimbabwe's PM says his is poised to win elections, sweep in change to end years of isolation
Associated PressHARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday he is poised to sweep to victory in upcoming presidential elections and return the nation to the world community after years of isolation. "We are going to be new brooms"...Tags: Elections, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Labor Legislation, Politics
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Mugabe seems as ensconced as ever
The two stuffed lions flanked Robert Mugabe like a couple of eczema- ridden dogs, but the Zimbabwean president seemed delighted by the effect.
"Are you afraid?" he taunted foreign journalists after his party's resounding victory in 2005 parliamentary...Tags: Death, Elections, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Politics
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Archive story: Mugabe foe beaten, group says
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterZimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, was severely beaten Sunday by police after being arrested on his way to an anti-government protest rally, opposition movement members said. Tsvangirai and at least 120 members of the Movement for...Tags: Assault, Death, Lawyers, U.S. Department of State, Los Angeles Times
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Defending Thabo Mbeki
James Kirchick has pounded out several Op-Ed articles on South Africa and Zimbabwe and gotten them published in major newspapers, like “South Africa’s unseemly alliance." His claim that the leaders of South Africa's ruling African National...Tags: Elections, Politics, Robert Mugabe, George H.W. Bush, National Government
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In Zimbabwe's theater of fear, dissent plays on
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe stage was a small room in the Harare Central Police Station. The audience, about 20 bored policemen and plainclothes intelligence officers. The two actors were shaking, not with stage fright but the real thing. Anthony Tongani stammered and forgot...Tags: Death, Arts and Culture, Los Angeles Times, Politics, Road Transportation
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Zimbabweans flood South Africa, where compassion has ebbed.
The two men stared at each other for a long moment, captor and captive: a white game farmer named Andre Nienaber, with mirrored sunglasses, neatly pressed khaki clothes and an aura of military precision; and a 16-year-old Zimbabwean orphan named Peter...Tags: Death, Career and Workplace, Politics, Illegal Immigrants, Disasters and Accidents
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In Zimbabwe, even loyalists are disloyal
Everything you'd expect to find in the office of a senior official in Zimbabwe's ruling party was there: the dominating portrait of President Robert Mugabe, the yellowing photos of liberation martyrs and heroes. The only discordant note was in the words...Tags: Elections, Death, Civil Rights, Inflation and Deflation, World War II (1939-1945)
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