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Kimberley Process: Zimbabwe Action Mars Credibility

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:31:12 +0000

Source: Human Rights Watch (Johannesburg) - The credibility of the world's "blood diamond" monitoring group has been damaged after its failure this week to suspend Zimbabwe despite overwhelming evidence of serious ...

Zimbabwe white farmers seek $1.2m for welfare-union

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:34:35 +0000

Source: Reuters * CFU says 4,200 farmers face destitution * Government has partially compensated 200 farmers * Violence continuing on commercial farms By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE, Nov 6 (Reuters) - ...

Zimbabwe proposes local ownership of foreign firms

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:07:12 +0000

Source: Reuters * Businesses with asset value over $500,000 affected * Move could unsettle investors * Chamber of Mines, Implats taken by surprise (Adds Impala Platinum, paras 10-11) By Nelson Banya ...

Zimbabwe proposes local ownership of foreign firms

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:10:00 +0000

Source: Reuters HARARE, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government has proposed that Zimbabweans take 51 percent ownership of foreign companies in the country, including mines and banks, according to a copy of a draft ...

Zimbabwe's MDC ends unity government boycott

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:30:36 +0000

Source: Reuters MAPUTO, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's MDC has ended its boycott of the new unity government but will give President Robert Mugabe a month to fully implement a power-sharing deal, Prime Minister Morgan ...

ZIMBABWE: Kimberley Process ignores its own advice

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:24:00 +0000

Source: IRIN Zimbabwe's rough diamond trade has escaped a six-month suspension by the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) - an international initiative to stem the flow of conflict diamonds - after its own investigating team recommended earlier in 2009 that the country be temporarily barred from importing and exporting the gems.

FACTBOX-Africa the worst hit by AIDS, by far

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:33:37 +0000

Source: Reuters Nov 5 (Reuters) - Declining donor HIV/AIDS funding could have catastrophic consequences for millions who need treatment and undo progress made in fighting the disease, aid group Medecins Sans ...

Shrinking AIDS funding will reverse gains-MSF

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:33:25 +0000

Source: Reuters * Reduced AIDS funding will undo treatment gains * Donors are not honouring pledges By Peroshni Govender JOHANNESBURG, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Declining donor funding for HIV/AIDS could have ...

ZIMBABWE: Donors uneasy about Mugabe's threat

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:38:28 +0000

Source: IRIN Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's threat to appoint interim ministers to plug the gap left by the "disengagement" of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) from the unity government could lead to a review of donor funding, a highly placed official from a major donor country told IRIN.

MOZAMBIQUE: How to demine: The devil is in the detail

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:37:50 +0000

Source: IRIN The conversations of deminers are often illustrated with sketches on the reverse side of old reports or the toe of a boot drawing lines in the sand to show how a single mine can close 35km of road, make a bridge redundant or deny a community a swathe of farming land. They are a meticulous fraternity that knows the devil is very much in the detail.