Zimbabwe file
Ongoing coverage of the 2008 Zimbabwe political elections.
27 June 2008: Zimbabwe: hunger, terror, displacement and death ; Africa news update: special zimbabwe news update
25 June 2008: interview with Morgan Tsvangirai. Tsvangirai talks about xenophobia in SA, his withdrawal from the presidential runoff, economic policies under MDC, land redistribution, Bretton-Woods institutions and more. (This Interview was conducted today by Brian Ashley of South African magazine Amandla by the MDC leader on the phone from Harare.)
16 June 2008: Africa Today (KPFA community radio) host Walter Turner interviews with Dr. Gerald Horne, University of Houston, on the upcoming elections Zimbabwe run-off elections link to show archive
1 April 2008: Interview with Gabriel Shumba one of Zimbabwe’s most prominent human rights defenders and provides regular expert commentary to national media in South Africa and international media. He is a human rights lawyer who fled Zimbabwe in 2003 after he was arrested and brutally tortured for providing counsel to a representative of the Movement for Democratic Change, President Robert Mugabe’s chief political opposition. link
The Guardian UK special coverage
