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Zimbabwe ( ; officially the Republic of Zimbabwe) is a landlocked country of southern Africa. It shares a 125-mile (200-kilometre) border on the south with the Republic of South Africa and is bounded on the southwest and west by Botswana, on the north by Zambia, and on the northeast and east by Mozambique.
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Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe who is accused of ethnic cleansing, has reportedly been asked by the United Nations to champion tourism.
Mugabe, 88, has been honored as a "leader for tourism" by the UN's World Tourism Organization along with his political ally Michael Sata, the 75-year-old president of Zambia. The pair signed an agreement with UNWTO Secretary General Taleb Rifai at their shared border at Victoria Falls, the Guardian reports.The two southern African countries will also co-host the UNWTO's general assembly in August 2013.UNWTO officials told the Guardian the agency had not appointed Mugabe to any formal position, but acknowledged he will receive an open letter like other heads of state who have joined its leaders for the tourism campaign.The development, however, has stunned human rights advocates who regard Mugabe as a tyrannical dictator."It is an absolute scandal -- and an affront to the people of Zimbabwe, who didn't vote for Mugabe as their president but had...The United Nations human rights chief said Friday that Western sanctions against Zimbabwe's president and his loyalists should be suspended, at least until elections...
A Zimbabwean man was killed while trying to rescue his friend from attacking crocodiles in northwest Zimbabwe, a fishing club said Wednesday.The National Anglers' Un...
Zimbabwe's justice minister rejected allegations that the country has state sponsored violence and he vowed not to recognize gay rights after meeting with the U.N. h...
Zimbabwe's justice minister rejected allegations that the country has state sponsored violence and he vowed not to recognize gay rights after meeting with the U.N. h...
State prosecutors in Zimbabwe say an opposition politician at a Ford Motor Company car show got into the latest model on display and drove it away. He faces car thef...
An animal welfare group in Zimbabwe says poachers are now targeting rare anteaters because of a growing demand for exotic animal parts for Asian traditional medicine...
Sixty-five miners are awaiting rescue underground at a platinum mine on Tuesday after conveyor equipment collapsed in southern Zimbabwe.National Mine Workers Union h...
The U.N. human rights chief says Zimbabwe's president has acknowledged the nation faces "current problems" but blames influences of the past.U.N. High Commissioner f...
Zimbabwe's prime minister said Tuesday that political violence is continuing despite denials by perpetrators who have targeted his supporters.Prime Minister Morgan T...
In a May 10 story about a Zimbabwe home for the elderly visited by Britain's Princess Diana, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Princess Diana opened the...
Mineworkers union: 65 Zimbabwe miners trapped underground
A mineworkers union says 65 miners are trapped underground at a platinum mine in southern Zimbabwe.National Mine Workers Union head Shadreck Pelewelo said Tuesday th...
Wildlife authorities say rangers shot dead a poacher in northwestern Zimbabwe and seized 28 elephant tusks from a bush hideout.The National Parks and Wildlife Author...
Zimbabwe's president said Thursday that homosexuality doesn't belong in Zimbabwe and it violates women's rights by denying the union of men and women needed to bear ...
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Organizers of a classical music festival in Zimbabwe say authorities arrested a prominent British music personality at a concert in the second city of Bulawayo.The c...
State radio says 13 people died and six were seriously injured in Zimbabwe when a crowded minibus burst a tire and slammed into a tree.State radio reported Saturday ...
The United Nations human rights chief said Friday that Western sanctions against Zimbabwe's president and his loyalists should be suspended, at least until elections...
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