Harare  - Zimbabwean police have charged well-known white opposition politician Roy Bennett, whose arrest as a new government was being sworn in Friday provoked furore, with a lesser charge of insu

Hong Kong  - A Zimbabwean students' union was Sunday calling for Hong Kong to deport the daughter of President Robert Mugabe, who is studying at the city's top university.

The Zimbabwe National Students Union petitioned Chinese diplomats in Africa after learning that 20-year-old Bona Mugabe is an undergraduate student at the University of Hong Kong.

Students in the impoverished African nation, which is in the grip of a spiralling economic crisis and political turmoil, say Mugabe's daughter should be made to study back home.

Harare  - Zimbabwean ministerial appointee Roy Bennett, who was arrested Friday shortly before the swearing-in of a unity government, has been charged with treason, his lawyer said late Friday.

Bennett, the MDC's candidate for deputy agriculture minister, has been charged in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate President Robert Mugabe dating back to
2006, his lawyer Trust Maanda told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Harare  - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe swore some of his fiercest critics into a power-sharing government on Friday, sealing the beginning of a reluctant union which Zimbabweans hope will end the country's economic crisis.

Two days after he ceded a portion of his powers to long-time opposition leader Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Mugabe swore in ministers from the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and his own Zanu-PF into a 31-ministry coalition cabinet.

New York  - Zimbabwe's new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai should address immediately the economic and humanitarian crises in the country, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday in welcoming the new government leader.

Tsvangirai was sworn in as a political partner in the government of President Robert Mugabe, a deal that fulfilled an agreement reached last September between Mugabe and the opposition party headed by Tsvangirai.

Berlin  - Germany warned Wednesday that Zimbabwe's new unity government faces huge challenges, after the swearing in of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai as prime minister.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier welcomed Tsvangirai's appointment, but pointed to the huge economic and health challenges facing the impoverished country.