<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Robert Mugabe: News &amp; Videos about Robert Mugabe - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Robert_Mugabe</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Robert Mugabe from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:44:56 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Robert Mugabe: News &amp; Videos about Robert Mugabe - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/WORLD/africa/09/25/zimbabwe.mugabe.united.nations/tztop.mugabe.gi.jpg</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Robert_Mugabe</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Robert Mugabe from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Mugabe slams U.S., Western 'filthy antics'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/25/zimbabwe.mugabe.united.nations/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/25/zimbabwe.mugabe.united.nations/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe used his address to the U.N. General Assembly Friday to slam sanctions imposed against him and others in his regime, blaming them for worsening the plight of people in his country.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Profile: Who is Robert Mugabe?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/24/zimbabwe.mugabe.profile/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/24/zimbabwe.mugabe.profile/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, who is scheduled to give a rare interview to CNN's Christiane Amanpour Thursday, is one of the most controversial world leaders of recent times.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Despite unity deal, Zimbabwe struggles to confront problems</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/16/zimbabwe.powershare.anniversary/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/16/zimbabwe.powershare.anniversary/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwe's fragile power-sharing deal faces an uncertain future, one year after an agreement was signed between President Robert Mugabe and his political rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe meets EU officials, says meeting 'quite friendly'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/12/mugabe.zimbabwe.eu/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/12/mugabe.zimbabwe.eu/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A European Union delegation met Saturday with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, who said the parties had established a "good rapport."</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe pardons 1,500 prisoners to ease jail congestion</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/03/mugabe.zimbabwe.prison.pardons/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/03/mugabe.zimbabwe.prison.pardons/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Congestion in Zimbabwe's prisons is set to ease a bit after President Robert Mugabe acceded to pleas by prison authorities to pardon more than 1,500 prisoners.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Men accused of Mugabe overthrow plot released</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/05/13/zimbabwe.prisoners.released/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/05/13/zimbabwe.prisoners.released/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Three men charged with plotting to overthrow Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe were free on bail Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 18:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe activists sent back to jail</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/05/05/zimbabwe.activists.jailed/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/05/05/zimbabwe.activists.jailed/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A Zimbabwean court Tuesday ordered 18 human rights and political activists back to jail after they were indicted on charges related to an alleged plan to topple President Robert Mugabe.</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 16:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe ally implicated in Zimbabwe farm seizures</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/17/zimbabwe.farm.seizures/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/17/zimbabwe.farm.seizures/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Farmers are implicating a close ally of President Robert Mugabe's in the latest round of farm seizures in Zimbabwe in which Mugabe loyalists take over white-owned farms.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe seeks aid for wrecked economy</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/19/zimbabwe.mugabe.appeal/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/19/zimbabwe.mugabe.appeal/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe pleaded Thursday for aid to help revive the country's battered economy, which analysts say he is responsible for wrecking.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe hosts lavish party despite national crisis</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/28/zimbabwe.mugabe.birthday.party/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/28/zimbabwe.mugabe.birthday.party/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was celebrating his 85th birthday with a lavish all-day party Saturday despite the fact that the country is gripped by an economic and health crisis.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:33:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Jailed Zimbabwe activist misses swear-in</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/19/zimbabwe.minister/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/19/zimbabwe.minister/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>One of Zimbabwe's top opposition politicians remained in police custody Thursday as his fellow deputy ministers were being sworn in to join the new unity government led by President Robert Mugabe.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:40:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Opposition: Mugabe party trying to sink power-sharing deal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/03/zimbabwe.mugabe/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/03/zimbabwe.mugabe/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwe's opposition said Tuesday that President Robert Mugabe's party has begun to backtrack on the inclusive government set to form next week and is dithering on discussions of contentious issues.</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:11:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe power-share talks break down</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/01/19/zimbabwe.talks/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/01/19/zimbabwe.talks/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Talks among regional African leaders failed Monday to resolve a long-standing power-sharing dispute between embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Opposition: No 'suicide' deal with Mugabe</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/01/18/zimbabwe.mugabe.meeting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/01/18/zimbabwe.mugabe.meeting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwe's opposition said Sunday that it will not "commit political suicide" by entering into a government with President Robert Mugabe without the power to deliver change, food and jobs.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe: Rights activist is 'threat to society'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/01/14/zimbabwe.opposition/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/01/14/zimbabwe.opposition/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A top Zimbabwean human rights activist facing charges of recruiting people for insurgency training and terrorist bombings is a "threat to society" and must remain in custody, the country's attorney general said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:12:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.N.: Zimbabwe cholera deaths nearly 1,000</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/15/zimbabwe.thousand.deaths/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/15/zimbabwe.thousand.deaths/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The number of cholera deaths in Zimbabwe is approaching 1,000, according to U.N. figures published Monday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe: Cholera is genocide by UK</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/12/zimbabwe.mugabe/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/12/zimbabwe.mugabe/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The number of cholera deaths in Zimbabwe is approaching 1,000, according to U.N. figures published Monday. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said 978 people have died and 18,413 suspected cases have been recorded. U.N. figures have been compiled since August.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:13:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>MDC: Mugabe issues passport to rival</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/28/zimbabwe.politics/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/28/zimbabwe.politics/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's government has issued a new passport to opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, according to a senior official with Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change party.</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:47:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Jailed Zimbabwe activists caught in legal battle</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/27/zimbabwe.police/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/27/zimbabwe.police/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwean police are in contempt of court for failing to follow a judge's order to release jailed members of the opposition, attorneys for the activists said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe police ignore order to release activists</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/25/zimbabwe.activists.police/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/25/zimbabwe.activists.police/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Police in Zimbabwe appear to be disregarding a High Court order to release members of the opposition in their custody, a lawyer representing them said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe: U.S. and West are 'stupid and foolish'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/23/zimbabwe.mugabe.us.uk/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/23/zimbabwe.mugabe.us.uk/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe described the U.S. government and Western nations as "quite stupid and foolish" Tuesday for trying to be involved in the African country's affairs.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Diplomat: U.S. no longer supports Zimbabwe power-share deal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/21/zimbabwe.us.mugabe/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/21/zimbabwe.us.mugabe/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The United States no longer supports a power-sharing deal between Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and the country's main opposition because a viable unity government is not possible with Mugabe in power, a top U.S. diplomat said Sunday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe: Opposition training for war</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/15/zimbabwe/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/15/zimbabwe/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A key ally of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe on Monday accused the opposition of training for armed rebellion.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe 'needs to go,' U.S. says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/11/zimbabwe.south.africa/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/11/zimbabwe.south.africa/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>President Robert Mugabe is "out of touch" with the magnitude of the cholera crisis gripping his country and should step down, the U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:13:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>EU looks to increase pressure on Mugabe</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/08/zimbabwe.diplomacy/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/08/zimbabwe.diplomacy/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The European Union's foreign policy chief has called for increased political pressure to force Zimbabwe's leader Robert Mugabe to step down, as the country's humanitarian crisis worsens.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:52:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Kenya PM calls for troops to 'dislodge' Zimbabwe's president</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/07/kenya.zimbabwe/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/07/kenya.zimbabwe/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The prime minister of Kenya Sunday called for troops to "dislodge" Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as the country's humanitarian crisis worsens.</description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:33:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Rice: 'Well past time' for Mugabe's rule to end</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/05/zimbabwe.cholera.rice/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/05/zimbabwe.cholera.rice/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday the cholera outbreak that has killed nearly 600 people in Zimbabwe is the latest sign that President Robert Mugabe's rule over the country must end.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:33:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe hints at Cabinet without opposition</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/05/zimbabwe.mugabe/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/05/zimbabwe.mugabe/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>President Robert Mugabe hinted he may form a Cabinet without the opposition and call for early elections in Zimbabwe to resolve the impasse over a stalled power-sharing deal.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:11:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>More Zimbabwe Talks Fail
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1854444,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1854444,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Mugabe clings to power against mounting odds
</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe power-share talks resume Wednesday</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/10/14/zimbabwe.talks/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/10/14/zimbabwe.talks/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and political rival Morgan Tsvangirai failed to reach an agreement Tuesday over new fissures in their power-sharing deal signed last month, despite hours of negotiations.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe power-sharing talks stall</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/10/17/zimbabwe.politics/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/10/17/zimbabwe.politics/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Power-sharing talks in Zimbabwe have stalled, with the government and main opposition parties unable to agree on the distribution of ministries.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe's Mugabe Lays Claim to Key Ministries</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1849406,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1849406,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, locked in a standoff with the opposition in power-sharing talks, went ahead Saturday and laid claim to all key ministries as he tries to retain his iron grip on the nation</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fury as Mugabe party gets key ministries</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/10/11/mugabe.zimbabwe/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/10/11/mugabe.zimbabwe/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Robert Mugabe's political rivals Saturday accused the Zimbabwean president of  "ambush" in allocating key ministries to his own party in defiance of a power-sharing agreement aimed at ending political turmoil in the country.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>UN Food Program Finds Hunger in Rural Zimbabwe</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1848773,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1848773,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Some rural Zimbabweans facing one of the hungriest years they could remember have been forced to live on a meal a day and in some cases only on wild fruits, the U.N. food aid agency said Thursday</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe's Mugabe to Address UN</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1844176,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1844176,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Zimbabwe's president is only four Cabinet posts away from carrying out a power-sharing agreement with the opposition, he said in an interview ahead of his Thursday address to the U.N. General Assembly</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bumpy Road for Zimbabwe's Power-Sharing Deal</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1842531,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1842531,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Forced to share power, Mugabe and Tsvangirai fail to agree on how. And fighting words from the President raise the specter of violence
</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Can Zimbabwe's Shotgun Marriage Work? 
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1841286,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1841286,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Doubts linger over how President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will share power, but most Zimbabweans are welcoming an end to the post-election crisis
</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe Power-Sharing Deal Signed</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1841145,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1841145,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>President Robert Mugabe and opposition leaders have signed a deal that would see Zimbabwe's autocratic president of nearly three decades cede some power</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Breakthrough in Zimbabwe</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1840728,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1840728,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Mugabe and Tsvangirai agree to share power. Just how remains to be seen, but it's the best news the long-suffering country has had in a decade</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe rivals in power-sharing talks</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/09/09/zimbabwe.mbeki.talks/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/09/09/zimbabwe.mbeki.talks/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Power-sharing talks in Zimbabwe entered their second day Tuesday amid reports they might collapse if President Robert Mugabe does not concede to opposition demands.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Police seize opposition MPs in Zimbabwe</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/27/zimbabwe.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/27/zimbabwe.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Police in Zimbabwe arrested more opposition lawmakers Wednesday as President Robert Mugabe announced he would include opposition members in his new Cabinet.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Trying to Boo Mugabe Offstage</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1836264,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1836264,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Zimbabwe's president is heckled and his speech drowned out after he orders the opposition-dominated parliament to assemble</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe heckled at Zimbabwe parliament opening</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/26/zimbabwe.politics/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/26/zimbabwe.politics/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Opposition members booed and heckled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as he spoke at the opening of the country's parliament Tuesday, making clear they do not recognize his legitimacy.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe Opposition Gets Major Win</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1835734,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1835734,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Zimbabwe's opposition won the vote for speaker of the first parliament since disputed elections in March, claiming votes even from the party of President Robert Mugabe</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The world's worst inflation</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/13/news/international/worlds_worst_inflation_spiers.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/13/news/international/worlds_worst_inflation_spiers.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>If purchased on the newsstand in Zimbabwe, the issue of Fortune you're holding would have cost you 270,543,825,555 Zimbabwean dollars. But don't worry about pulling your Weimar-era wheelbarrows out of storage. As of July you could pay for your magazine with three newly issued $100 billion bills.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hundreds of protesters greet Mugabe at summit</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/16/zimbabwe.talks/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/16/zimbabwe.talks/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>African leaders gathered for a weekend summit in South Africa on Saturday as hundreds protested nearby, angry at the inclusion of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe Rival Held at Airport</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1832808,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1832808,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>With the government continuing to harass the opposition, power-sharing talks between Mugabe and Tsvangirai are no closer to resolution</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Official: Mugabe agrees power-share deal without Tsvangirai</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/12/zimbabwe.unity.government/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/12/zimbabwe.unity.government/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe signed a power-sharing deal with the opposition party's breakaway faction, his party said Tuesday, though Mugabe's opponents denied the claim.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe, Tsvangirai back in power-sharing talks</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/11/zimbabwe.talks/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/11/zimbabwe.talks/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai  returned to power-sharing negotiations Monday afternoon with several "sticking points" left to resolve.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe rivals' power-share talks to resume Monday</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/10/zimbabwe.talks/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/10/zimbabwe.talks/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>After several hours of power-sharing negotiations, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai adjourned the talks early Monday -- apparently without reaching a deal.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Power Failure in Zimbabwe's Talks</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1827498,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1827498,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Global pressure may have forced Mugabe's government to the bargaining table, but the regime is not ready to offer an acceptable deal to the opposition
</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mbeki returns to Zimbabwe for more talks</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/30/zimbabwe.mbeki/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/30/zimbabwe.mbeki/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>South African President Thabo Mbeki is heading to Zimbabwe for talks with the country's president and the head of an opposition faction, the South African government announced Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Breakthrough in Zimbabwe: Let's Talk
 
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1825151,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1825151,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Mugabe and Tsvangirai agree to negotiate, making way for a possible end to the country's crisis. But obstacles remain</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe's 'Power-Sharing' Reality</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1824603,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1824603,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The nation's beaten down opposition may end up being forced to accept what it swears is unacceptable: A power-sharing deal</description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe opposition: 14 escape 'trumped up' charges</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/15/zimbabwe.opposition/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/15/zimbabwe.opposition/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A judge in Zimbabwe has cleared 14 opposition party members who were facing charges of inciting political violence, the Movement for Democratic Change said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Russia, China veto U.N. sanctions on Zimbabwe</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/11/zimbabwe.sanctions/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/11/zimbabwe.sanctions/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution Friday that would have imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe's longtime president, Robert Mugabe, and 11 senior members of his government.</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Mugabe and His Foe Are Talking
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1821693,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1821693,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Neither Zimbabwe's regime nor its opposition can eliminate the other, but each has a very different idea of what a compromise would involve 
</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mbeki brokers meeting of Mugabe, MDC faction</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/05/zimbabwe.video/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/05/zimbabwe.video/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>South African President Thabo Mbeki met Saturday with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and members of a breakaway opposition faction, the South African Foreign Affairs Department said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe 'wanted' list deepens crisis</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/04/zimbabwe.list/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/04/zimbabwe.list/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Police in Zimbabwe said Friday they have put seven opposition members of parliament on a wanted list, a development that is likely to further dampen the possibility of talks between President Robert Mugabe and his rivals.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabweans seek refuge at U.S. Embassy</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/03/zimbabwe.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/03/zimbabwe.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>About 220 Zimbabweans congregated outside the U.S. Embassy in Harare on Thursday, seeking refuge from election-related violence, embassy spokesman Mark Weinberg said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. may push U.N. sanctions on Zimbabwe</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/02/un.zimbabwe/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/02/un.zimbabwe/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The United States may soon put forward a U.N. Security Council draft resolution that would slap U.N. sanctions on Zimbabwe's long-time president, Robert Mugabe, and 11 senior members of his government.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Path to Compromise in Zimbabwe?
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1819819,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1819819,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Mugabe and his opponents consider talks, but neither accepts the other's terms for power sharing 
</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>British PM: Mugabe has blood on his hands</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/02/zimbabwe.mbeki/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/02/zimbabwe.mbeki/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe "has blood on his hands" after the violence leading up to last week's election and should step down, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Defiant Mugabe blasts West, tells Britain to 'hang'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/01/zimbabwe.embassy/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/01/zimbabwe.embassy/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's spokesman said Tuesday that talk of Western intervention in the country's politics smacks of colonialism and that the United Kingdom "can go and hang a thousand times."</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Africa comes under pressure on Mugabe</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/30/zimbabwe.monday/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/30/zimbabwe.monday/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>African Union leaders are huddled in Egypt to address demands they reject the results of Zimbabwe's widely discredited runoff in which President Robert Mugabe was handed a shallow victory.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe stands firm on Zimbabwe vote</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/26/zimbabwe.biti/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/26/zimbabwe.biti/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>As the hours ticked down toward the opening of Friday's balloting, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe showed no indication that he would give in to demands to postpone the runoff election despite his challenger's dropping out.</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe Looks for Support at Summit</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1819019,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1819019,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe sought a boost of political legitimacy at a summit of African leaders after his re-election was condemned by much of the rest of the world as a sham</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe Sworn in After Runoff</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1819017,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1819017,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Zimbabwe's longtime ruler Robert Mugabe was sworn in as president for a sixth term Sunday after a widely discredited runoff in which he was the only candidate</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe sworn in after disputed Zimbabwean election</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/29/zimbabwe.sunday/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/29/zimbabwe.sunday/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>President Robert Mugabe was sworn in Sunday after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission declared he overwhelmingly won the country's disputed runoff election.</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe Sworn In After Runoff</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1818915,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1818915,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>President Robert Mugabe was sworn in for a sixth term Sunday, just hours after electoral officials said he had overwhelmingly won a discredited runoff</description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Opposition leader says voters forced to choose Mugabe</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/27/zimbabwe.vote/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/27/zimbabwe.vote/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said government supporters threatened Zimbabweans into voting for Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party Friday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Art of Ousting Mugabe</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1818771,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1818771,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Why the sanctions that rained down on the apartheid regime of a
previous generation haven't been imposed on Zimbabwe</description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Lesson of Zimbabwe's 'Election'</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1818527,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1818527,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The creeping coup that will keep Mugabe in office signals the end of the West's interventionist era</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Forced March to the Polls in Zimbabwe

</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1818294,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1818294,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>After a campaign of intimidation, Mugabe's forces are now ordering everyone to the polls -- to vote for you know who 
</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe: Mugabe a fallen African hero</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/26/zimbabwe.explainer/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/26/zimbabwe.explainer/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>As the situation continues to deteriorate in Zimbabwe, the international community and African nations have grown more vocal in their condemnation of President Robert Mugabe's regime. However, as our indepth look at the situation explains there was once much support across the continent for him.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>World Rebuke of Mugabe Grows</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1818029,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1818029,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>President Robert Mugabe faced deeper international isolation Wednesday, with African states demanding that a discredited runoff election be postponed and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela rebuking the Zimbabwe leader for the first time</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe Stripped of Knighthood</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1817838,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1817838,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Queen Elizabeth II has stripped Zimbabwe's leader Robert Mugabe
of his honorary knighthood</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tutu: Mugabe is a Frankenstein for his people</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/25/tutu.mugabe/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/25/tutu.mugabe/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu labeled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe "Frankenstein" and called for other countries to intervene before the country descended into bloodshed.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.N. condemns Zimbabwean violence</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/23/zimbabwe.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/23/zimbabwe.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The U.N. Security Council has unanimously condemned the Zimbabwean government because of violence that has marred the campaign leading up to a scheduled presidential election runoff, which forced the withdrawal of the opposition candidate from the race.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe's Victory by Violence 
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1817328,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1817328,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Opposition candidate Tsvangirai is terrorized into submission, leaving Zimbabweans little hope of ousting Mugabe
</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Official: Mugabe wins re-election after opposition pulls out</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/22/zimbabwe.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/22/zimbabwe.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwe opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai said Sunday he would not participate in Friday's presidential runoff, provoking dismay from international observers and handing an apparent victory to President Robert Mugabe.</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Opposition officials rule out Zimbabwe poll boycott</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/20/zimbabwe.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/20/zimbabwe.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Officials in Zimbabwe's opposition party say it has rejected the idea of pulling out of next week's runoff election.</description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe opposition: Mayor's wife killed</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/19/zimbabwe.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/19/zimbabwe.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwe's opposition party said four of its activists and the wife of Harare's mayor -- an opposition member -- have been killed by supporters of President Robert Mugabe, just days ahead of next week's presidential runoff.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mbeki meets with Zimbabwe's embattled leaders</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/18/zimbabwe.mbeki/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/18/zimbabwe.mbeki/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>South African President Thabo Mbeki met with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday hoping to quell bitterness over the presidential election, government and opposition party sources said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe warning as political turmoil deepens</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/14/zimbabwe.biti/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/14/zimbabwe.biti/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>President Robert Mugabe reiterated militant warnings on Saturday as the deputy leader of Zimbabwe's main opposition party was brought to court on treason charges.</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe Foe: The Runoff Must Proceed</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1814347,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1814347,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>After two more detentions by Zimbabwe authorities, the opposition leader tells TIME that he and his followers do not expect a fair election, but that the fight for democracy will go on</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe: War vets ready to fight for me</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/13/zimbabwe.mugabe/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/13/zimbabwe.mugabe/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has warned that veterans he commanded in his country's liberation war will take up arms again to prevent the opposition party from taking power.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zimbabwe Under Military Rule?
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1813656,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1813656,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Opposition leaders and diplomats believe that President Robert Mugabe may now simply be a front for the country's generals 
</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Police Stifle Zimbabwe Opposition</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1812326,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1812326,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The MDC said Friday that its rallies had been banned indefinitely three weeks before the presidential runoff</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Is Mugabe Using Food as a Weapon? 
 
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1811714,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1811714,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Suspending humanitarian aid and harassing the opposition presidential candidate are the Zimbabwe leader's latest tactics in his drive to stay in power</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ahmadinejad, Mugabe blame West for food crisis</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/03/un.food.prices/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/03/un.food.prices/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two controversial world leaders known for their anti-western rhetoric took advantage of a U.N. summit to point the finger of blame for the current food crisis at western nations.  </description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe could be stripped of knighthood</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/03/britain.mugabe/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/03/britain.mugabe/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>British officials have not ruled out revoking the knighthood of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, a foreign office spokeswoman said Tuesday, following a report that the government was taking the first steps to strip him of the title.</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe labels U.S. diplomat a 'prostitute'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/26/zimbabwe.mugabe/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/26/zimbabwe.mugabe/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has warned against outside influences in next month's run-off election, likening one American diplomat to a "prostitute" and threatening to oust another from his country.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 10:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>At funeral, opposition leader criticizes Zimbabwe's president</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/25/zimbabwe.funeral/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/25/zimbabwe.funeral/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had harsh words for President Robert Mugabe on Sunday, as he stood near the casket of a man he says was killed by Mugabe's supporters.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 01:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe rival fears 'assassination' plot</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/17/zimbabwe/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/17/zimbabwe/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwe's opposition leader has canceled his return to Harare from South Africa after receiving information from a "credible source" about what his party said was a planned assassination.</description><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 14:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tsvangirai to contest Zimbabwe election runoff</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/10/zimbabwe.tsvangirai/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/10/zimbabwe.tsvangirai/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will contest the presidential runoff with incumbent Robert Mugabe, he announced on Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 12:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tsvangirai delays Zimbabwe runoff decision</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/04/zimbabwe.runoff/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/04/zimbabwe.runoff/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The opposition candidate who bested Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe in the March presidential balloting is in no hurry to announce whether he will participate in a runoff election, his spokesman said Sunday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 11:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe's Strategy for Victory</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1737116,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1737116,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The election results are official: Mugabe lost, but gets a second chance in a runoff. With time to plan its counterattack, the regime looks likely to prevail</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 21:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mugabe opponents: Election results 'illegal'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/02/zimbabwe.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/02/zimbabwe.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Political opponents of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe denounced Friday's presidential election results as "illegal" and said they stand by their stance that their leader won the race and that no runoff is necessary.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 20:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Official: Mugabe will retain power if no run-off vote</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/01/tsvangirai.runoff/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/01/tsvangirai.runoff/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Zimbabwe's ruling and main opposition parties began meeting with the country's electoral commission Thursday to verify the results of the March 29 presidential election.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 19:34:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>