Harare - Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Wednesday he had given President Robert Mugabe a deadline on the resolution of issues threatening to derail the country's unity government.
Tsvangirai was speaking ahead of a third meeting between the two leaders on Thursday over the unilateral claw-back by Mugabe of the telecommunications dossier from Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
Harare - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai held talks Thursday on critical issues that threaten to derail their unity government, including Mugabe's snatch of the telecommunications portfolio from his rival's party.
Zimbabwe's deputy prime minister Arthur Mutambara, leader of a breakaway faction of Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), who is the third signatory to September's power-sharing agreement confirmed the meeting, which he is also attending.
Harare - A coalition of human rights groups in Zimbabwe has vowed on Wednesday to campaign against a new constitution, which is being drafted by the power-sharing government as part of the deal between President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
The group called the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA), made up of churches, workers groups, students and other activists, said it was hopeful that it could win a referendum set for next year.
Harare - A committee responsible for drafting a democratic constitution, following the establishment of a new power-sharing government in Zimbabwe nearly two moths ago, was announced Sunday. The 25-member committee of deputies drawn from the country's 210- seat lower chamber of Parliament to draw up a new constitution was announced by the speaker of the House of Assembly, Lovemore Moyo, state radio reported.
The body will be responsible for drafting a new constitution by February 2010, to be judged in a referendum by July and finally passed by the end of the year.
Harare - Zimbabwe's new coalition government has decided to withdraw the country's worthless currency from circulation for at least a year and rely exclusively on other hard currencies, according to reports on Sunday. Economic planning minister Elton Mangoma was quoted in the state-controlled Sunday Mail newspaper as saying that the Zimbabwe dollar, whose value was sent crashing by an official policy of the former regime of President Robert Mugabe to print huge volumes of cash to keep up with state spending, "will be out at least for a year.
Harare - Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Wednesday he had given President Robert Mugabe a deadline on the resolution of issues threatening to derail the country's unity government.
Harare - Twenty-nine people di
Harare - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai held talks Thursday on critical issues that threaten to derail their unity government, including Mugabe's snatch of the telecommunications portfolio from his rival's party.
Harare - A coalition of human rights groups in Zimbabwe has vowed on Wednesday to campaign against a new constitution, which is being drafted by the power-sharing government as part of the deal between President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
Harare - A committee responsible for drafting a democratic constitution, following the establishment of a new power-sharing government in Zimbabwe nearly two moths ago, was announced Sunday. The 25-member committee of deputies drawn from the country's 210- seat lower chamber of Parliament to draw up a new constitution was announced by the speaker of the House of Assembly, Lovemore Moyo, state radio reported.
Harare - Zimbabwe's new coalition government has decided to withdraw the country's worthless currency from circulation for at least a year and rely exclusively on other hard currencies, according to reports on Sunday. Economic planning minister Elton Mangoma was quoted in the state-controlled Sunday Mail newspaper as saying that the Zimbabwe dollar, whose value was sent crashing by an official policy of the former regime of President Robert Mugabe to print huge volumes of cash to keep up with state spending, "will be out at least for a year.
