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Al Jazeera Kicked out of Zimbabwe

Jun 22nd, 2008 | By Staff | Category: Media Watch

Al Jazeera has been denied permission to operate in Zimbabwe, a source in the Ministry of Information and Publicity told Metro.
Its Harare bureau will be moved to Johannesburg.
The source said the government was not happy with its plans to fire its correspondent Supa Mandiwanzira who is being accused of not being objective.



MDC MP Mukonoweshuro survives attack

Jun 12th, 2008 | By Staff | Category: Politics

The MDC ’s International Affairs Secretary,Eliphas Mukonoweshuro,MDC-Gutu South., on Thursday escaped an attack by the army and Central Intelligence operatives.
“I have been chased by a car of hit men. It is a combination of Zanu-PF hoodlums and army officers who are campaigning for Zanu-PF.
“They call that campaigning but they use guns, machetes and spears to [...]



GNU is the Only Route

Jun 7th, 2008 | By Charles Pemhenayi | Category: Analysis, Politics

Emmerson Mnangagwa, the ZANU-PF secretary for legal affairs, recently said that a Government of National Unity (GNU) was “unavoidable” given the make-up of the country’s politics, while MDC’s secretary-general Tendai Biti told a Kenyan journalist that the run-off would not solve the crisis in the country adding that there was still room for negotiations to [...]



Welshman Ncube resisting MDC Coalition?

Jun 7th, 2008 | By Philip Mangena | Category: Investigations, Politics

In a shocking revelation,Metro has established that the Mutambara faction Secretary General, Welshman Ncube is scuttling the MDC unity pact and instructed all MPs not join MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai when he visits their constituencies.
It has also emerged that some in the faction had argued that their faction should not have fielded parliamentary by-election candidates [...]