| June 28, 2008 | - Robert Mugabe, ruler of Zimbabwe since 1980, was sworn in as president after he ran unopposed and won more than 85 percent of the popular vote, a percentage roughly equal to the national unemployment rate. He called for “unity” and invited former candidate and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to attend his inauguration. “This,” said a spokesman for Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), “is an unbelievable joke.” Mugabe supporters entered the house of an MDC councillor and shouted “Let's kill the baby” as they shattered the legs of his 11-month-old son, Blessing; a plan was discovered that called for 2 million MDC members to be “internally displaced”; and 3 million Zimbabweans were living in South Africa, where 62 people were killed in recent anti-immigration rioting.
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Times Online
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AFP
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CBS News
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| June 21, 2007 | -
Zimbabwe's rate of inflation reached 11,000 percent and was predicted to approach 1.5 million percent by the end of the year.
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Zimbabwe's rate of inflation reached 11,000 percent and was predicted to approach 1.5 million percent by the end of the year.
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Guardian
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| April 1, 2007 | - In Zimbabwe, scores of teenagers were beaten by riot police and dragged from a disco.
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iol.co.za
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| February 7, 2007 | -
Zimbabwe outlawed inflation.
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NY Times
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| January 12, 2007 | - Mengistu Haile Mariam, the former dictator of Ethiopia who now lives comfortably in Zimbabwe, was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment on genocide charges.
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New York Times
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| December 1, 2006 | - Poor Zimbabweans were happily eating dog
food.
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Institute for war and peace reporting
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| May 7, 2006 | -
Zimbabwe was facing an acute tampon shortage.
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Times Online
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| April 25, 2006 | - Due to extreme inflation, toilet paper in Harare, Zimbabwe, cost $145,750 per roll (or U.S. $0.69).
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The New York Times
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| February 17, 2006 | - In Harare, Zimbabwe, twenty newborn babies and fetuses were being pulled from the sewers each week.
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CNN.com
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| January 15, 2006 | - In Zimbabwe, a pair of twins named Tafadzwa and Tapiwanashe Fichiani were charged with indecent exposure after entering an upscale mall wearing traditional goatskin loincloths known as nhembe. “We do not care what people say or think about us,” explained Tapiwanashe, “because we regard them as colonized.”
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News24.com
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| June 24, 2005 | -
Zimbabwe bulldozed some children.
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The Independent
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| May 2, 2005 | -
Zimbabwe was at risk of famine.
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ABC News Online
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| April 24, 2005 | -
Zimbabweans barbecued nine elephants.
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The Independent
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| April 8, 2005 | - At the pope's funeral, Prince Charles shook Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's hand.
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The Guardian
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| April 1, 2005 | -
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's party won a two-thirds majority in a rigged election.
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Guardian
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| March 18, 2005 | - A woman in Zimbabwe testified that she had paid an advisor $5,000 to fly four invisible mermaids, named Emma, Charmaine, Sharvine, and Bella, from London to Zimbabwe.
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Boston.com
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| February 9, 2005 | -
Zimbabwean women's track-and-field star Samukeliso Sithole turned out to be male. Sithole, who owns several beasts, claims that his penis has grown in only recently.
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AllAfrica.com
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| June 13, 2004 | -
Zimbabwe announced that it will eliminate private ownership of land.
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Baltimore Sun
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| June 2, 2004 | -
Zimbabwe proposed censoring private email.
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New York Times
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| April 9, 2004 | - People were dying of hunger in Zimbabwe.
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Agence France-Presse
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| April 1, 2004 | - Two street children in Zimbabwe were arrested after they stole 100 million Zimbabwe dollars (about $23,000) and bought food, clothing, and household goods for other street children.
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New York Times
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| December 2, 2003 | -
Zimbabwe's government proposed making it easier to seize farms from white people.
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New York Times
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| November 11, 2003 | - Canaan Sodindo Banana, the first black president of Zimbabwe and a convicted homosexual rapist, died at age 67.
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Associated Press
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| October 19, 2003 | - President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was just finishing up a $9 million, 130,000-square-foot, 25-bedroom retreat.
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New York Times
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| July 21, 2003 | - Mortuary workers in Zimbabwe were renting cadavers to motorists who wished to take advantage of the priority given to hearses in gas-station lines.
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Reuters
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| August 13, 2002 | -
Officials in Zambia and Zimbabwe said they were reluctant to use American food aid because it contains genetically modified corn.
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| March 19, 2002 | -
Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe since 1980, was sworn into office again after an election marked by political violence and evidence of fraud.
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| December 18, 2001 | - President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe opened his reelection campaign and took his main opponent into custody.
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| August 28, 2001 | - In Zimbabwe, militants occupying white-owned farms freed from quarantine livestock infected with foot-and-mouth disease.
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| February 13, 2001 | - Political violence continued in Afghanistan, China, Colombia, Congo, Ecuador, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Kashmir, Liberia, Nigeria, Palestine, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere.
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| February 6, 2001 | -
Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, forced the chief justice of his country's supreme court to resign; government-backed thugs threatened to remove other justices by force if they refused to do as they were told.
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| December 26, 2000 | - The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe ordered President Robert Mugabe to come up with a viable land-reform program, declaring his ad hoc policy of evicting white
farmers illegal; Mugabe's spokesmen dismissed the decision, saying it was “of no consequence.”
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| December 19, 2000 | - Two days after a white farmer was ambushed and murdered, Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe urged blacks “to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy.”
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| November 14, 2000 | -
Zimbabwe's supreme court declared that the recent seizures of white-owned farms were illegal and ordered the government to evict black squatters occupying the farms; the government, which has ignored two previous court orders on the subject, said there was “no going back.” Indonesian troops in Aceh, on the island of Sumatra, were killing civilians suspected of collaborating with rebels; bodies of men arrested by security forces routinely turn up dead, mutilated, dismembered.
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| September 12, 2000 | - President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was served with a lawsuit while standing outside a church in Harlem; the lawsuit, which was filed in a Manhattan federal district court, seeks damages for the death of the plaintiff's husband, who was killed by members of Mugabe's party.
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| August 1, 2000 | -
Zimbabwe's state television station reported that President Mugabe has decided to seize 3,000 farms as part of a land redistribution program.
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