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 ...

A judge dealt a setback to prosecutors in a trial that has strained Zimbabwe's coalition government, ruling Monday that statements made by a key witness who claims he was tortured are inadmissible. Roy Bennett, a top aide to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, has pleaded not ...

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 ...

In a dusty field in northern Zimbabwe, villagers clap and sing as they receive desperately needed seed and fertilizer for their crops, their only source of food and income. In this poor village in Bindura district, about 70 kilometres (45 miles) north of Harare, families live and die by the seeds they plant and the rains that fall. Donors have ...