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Regional ministers seek donor help for Zimbabwe

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Southern African finance ministers agreed on Friday to push for donor help to rebuild Zimbabwe from economic collapse, and put the initial need at $2 billion, South Africa's foreign minister said.

U.N.'s Ban urges Mugabe to free detainees

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called on Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to release detained activists and said such a move would help unlock international humanitarian support.
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Zimbabwe's Children have nothing to celebrate about

This weekend Zimbabwe's president turns 85 and he looks forward to lavish celebrations next week while the children are left to starve and more than half the population is being fed by international aid.
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Zimbabwe cholera cases tops 75,000

So far at least 73 385 Zimbabweans have been infected with water-borne diarrhea disease since August and 3 524 have died, in Africa's deadliest cholera outbreak in 15 years.
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Will unity government finally come to Zimbabwe?

It's been nearly five months since a power sharing deal was signed between the Zimbabwe ruling party and the opposition in September, but until now none of it has been carried through. On Friday the opposition agreed to join a unity government with Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANUPF party -- this is looking positive again -- the big question however is; will the deal be carried out this time?
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No deal reached in Zimbabwe talks

On Monday Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and his rival Morgan Tsvangirai met and held talks about a power-sharing agreement but failed to reach consensus.
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Tsvangirai ready to 'deal with' Mugabe

In a new bid to bring peace to Zimbabwe, regional heads from South Africa and neighboring Mozambique will meet Robert Mugabe and the country's opposition leader on Monday.
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Zimbabwe Cholera deaths surpass 2, 000

Africa has seen its worse outbreak in nearly a decade with more than 2,000 people dead from Cholera and 40,000 others suffering from this normally preventable illness.
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Ghana ballot delivers blow to ruling party

NSAWKAW, Ghana - Electors in the last constituency to vote in Ghana's presidential run-off delivered a further blow on Friday to the ruling party, which was already trailing narrowly in the election and boycotted the final ballot.
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South Africa's Mbeki visit Mugabe Ahead of Election

Just two weeks ahead of Zimbabwe's run-off election, President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa met with President Robert Mugabe in what appeared to be a last-minute effort to avoid any tampering to the ballot in an election already marred by violence and intimidation.
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Mugabe Meets UN Official Ahead of Run-Off Election

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe met United Nations Special Envoy Haile Menkerios on Tuesday amid international concern over the country's widespread violence, just 10 days ahead of the a run-off presidential election.

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