Full Coverage: Zimbabwe

07/30/2007 Managing editor of the banned Daily News is reportedly battling for his life in a Johannesburg (South Africa) hospital after he was shot and seriously injured by a gang of three assailants on July 23, 2007

07/27/2007 Zimbabwean women are suffering increasing repression as they mobilize to confront the government in the face of a spiraling economic and social rights crisis in their country, according to a new report from Amnesty International.

07/27/2007 The trial of Bright Chbvuri the editor of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions’ The Worker magazine charged with practicing journalism without accreditation under the repressive Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA), has been postponed to August 29, 2007

07/17/2007 Police in Harare arrested The Standard Photojournalist, Boldwin Hungwe, whilst taking pictures of events as people scrambled for goods at South African owned Makro shop after an invasion by the price control police.

07/11/2007 Zimbabwen hallituksen päätös alentaa tuotteiden hintoja 50 prosentilla johtaa analyytikkojen mukaan tuotannon supistumiseen ja työttömyyden lisäntymiseen. Hallitsevan ZANU-PF -puolueen miliisijoukot ja hallituksen virkamiehet ratsaavat tehtaita ja kauppoja pakottaen ne myymään tuotteet alennettuun hintaan.

07/11/2007 A government operation forcing businesses to reduce prices by 50 percent will drive manufacturing under, push unemployment up and bolster the informal market as basic commodities become scarcer, analysts have warned.
A new task force, set up to monitor and enforce compliance, ordered manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and other service providers to reduce their prices to 18 June levels; but a simultaneous salary increase for civil servants, which topped 600 percent, sent the prices of basic commodities, clothing and transport fares shooting up.