<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[In Zimbabwe, AIDS Still Means Death]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2441-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2441-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Politics and poverty are depriving Africans in rural areas of relief, even as new drugs stem the disease across the continent.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35787-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35787-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Bomber Attacks Tourists In Cairo; 2 Dead, 18 Injured <br>   CAIRO  --   A blast apparently set off by a bomber on a motorcycle hit a tour group in a historic bazaar Thursday, killing at least two people and wounding 18  --  the first attack targeting foreign tourists in the Egyptian capital in more than seven years.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mugabe Foes Charge Fraud in Zimbabwe Vote]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33107-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33107-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  HARARE, April 6  --  Zimbabwe's opposition said on Wednesday it had discovered "serious and unaccountable gaps" in vote tallies that prove its charges that President Robert Mugabe's ruling party rigged last week's parliamentary election.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28434-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28434-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   No Accord on U.N. Trip To Guantanamo Bay <br>   GENEVA  --   Officials from the United Nations and the United States have not been able to agree on conditions for a possible fact-finding mission to the U.S. detention center at Cuba's Guantanamo Bay, the U.N. special investigator on torture said Tuesday.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent Evident in Mugabe Strongholds]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26275-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26275-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Despite the opposition's poor showing in official voting results, the recent campaign in Zimbabwe revealed a spirit of defiance against the authoritarian rule of President Mugabe.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposition Leader Says He Wants to Build Party]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23084-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23084-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Zimbabwe's opposition leader ruled out organizing demonstrations against what he called the "fraudulent" results of last week's parliamentary elections, saying his party could not mount a protest large enough to force President Robert Mugabe from power.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zimbabwe Opposition Is Quiet After Vote]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22013-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22013-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ HARARE, Zimbabwe, April 2  --  Aiden Taurai Mpani woke up in a fighting mood. The wiry 28-year-old with a thin beard and an intense gaze said he had no doubt that the opposition party's disastrous showing in Zimbabwe's parliamentary vote resulted from rigging. So Saturday morning,  when the extent of the ruling party's landslide was finally clear, Mpani went downtown to wait for his party's leaders to rally their supporters onto the streets.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zimbabwe Vote Tightens Rulers' Grip]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18032-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18032-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The party of President Robert Mugabe gained control of at least two-thirds of the country's parliament after elections that his political opponents, human rights groups and Western governments denounced as rigged.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zimbabweans Vote in Parliamentary Elections]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15037-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15037-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Zimbabweans cast ballots in national parliamentary elections that were freer from violence than previous votes but still rife with irregularities. Officials said it would probably take 48 hours to tabulate the results.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Zimbabwe, 'There's No Reason to Be Scared']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14103-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14103-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the face of strong international pressure, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is seeking to convince the world that he can stage a fair election.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trade of Food for Votes Causes Unrest]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11069-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11069-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In Zimbabwe, threat of starvation is creating a potentially potent backlash against leading political party's practice of witholding food from opposition.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Outcast Plots Return In Zimbabwe]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2000-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2000-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a reversal of fortune that has become a national political soap opera, Mugabe has fired his former information minister, who in turn has denounced the leader in a series of scathing public comments.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zimbabwean Activists Tell of Beatings]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8455-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8455-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MUTARE, Zimbabwe -- Activists from Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, were returning from a campaign rally recently when they stopped at a shopping center in search of some cold drinks. What they found instead, they said, were about 20 government soldiers in no mood for the niceties of democracy.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zimbabwe Shuts Down Independent Weekly]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56475-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56475-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 26 -- The Zimbabwean government has ordered the Weekly Times, an independent publication less than two months old, to close, making it the third newspaper shuttered in the past 18 months under the country's strict media laws.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reporters Quit Zimbabwe Following Interrogations]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42432-2005Feb21.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42432-2005Feb21.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Three journalists who covered Zimbabwe for foreign media organizations left the country after they were interrogated by police last week about allegations that they broke the country's tough media and security laws.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Newly Meaningful Relationship?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21588-2005Feb13.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21588-2005Feb13.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Romance is in the air today across the land. But in Washington, the buzz continues about "The Kiss." No, not Gustav Klimt's famous painting. It's the big fat one an exuberant  President Bush planted on Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's right cheek as he waded through the Capitol crowd after the State of the Union a couple of weeks ago.]]></description><author> Al Kamen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zimbabwe Plans Food Handouts as Elections Near]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17650-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17650-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 11 -- The Zimbabwean government, backing off forecasts of a bumper harvest, announced Friday that 1.5 million people were in immediate need of food aid, especially in the country's drought-stricken southern provinces.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62115-2005Feb3.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62115-2005Feb3.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Zimbabwe Opposition Movement Says It Will Join Parliamentary Elections <br>   JOHANNESBURG --  Zimbabwe's leading opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, announced Thursday that it would participate in national parliamentary elections on March 31 despite earlier threats that it would boycott.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[South African Investigators Are Sent Out Of Zimbabwe]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59237-2005Feb2.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59237-2005Feb2.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 2 -- A delegation of South African labor union officials, who had traveled to neighboring Zimbabwe to investigate reports of repression and human rights abuses, were deported moments after their aircraft landed in the capital, Harare, on Wednesday.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Center Works to Preserve Yiddish]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19287-2005Jan18.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19287-2005Jan18.html?nav=rss_world/africa/southernafrica/zimbabwe/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 7:39:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[History arrived not so long ago in a thousand-pound crate postmarked "Bulawayo, Zimbabwe."]]></description><author> Michael Powell</author></item></channel></rss>