Zimbabwean officials have sharply criticized Britain's foreign minister for what one called his "very patronizing" remarks on sanctions, saying those comments could hurt the African nation's power-sharing negotiations. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband incurred the wrath of Arthur Mutambara, Zimbabwe's deputy prime minister, when he ...

Zimbabwe's high court on Monday struck out evidence from the main witness in the treason trial of a top aide to Premier Morgan Tsvangirai, after a judge accepted he had been tortured into testifying. Roy Bennett, the treasurer of Tsvangirai's party, is accused of plotting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe in 2006 in a conspiracy already dismissed by ...

Zimbabwe has suspended its public outreach efforts to gather views on a new constitution, throwing another obstacle on the path toward fresh elections, state media said Thursday. Funding problems caused the latest hitch in the process, which began in July but has been repeatedly delayed, said the state-run Herald newspaper. "All constitutional programmes have been suspended by the management committee ...