Tunisia

HARARE - The year 2011 has proved to be a bad year for dictators. Five dictators have left power since the beginning of the year either through death or resignations under pressure as protests against their tyrannical methods of ruling…
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Recently we have had a spate of incidents where countries have removed incumbent leaders in often violent circumstances. Leaders being dragged out of their hiding places and manhandled by troops and citizens writes Eddie Cross.
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SW Radio Africa journalist Lance Guma speaks to former student leader Hopewell Gumbo, one of 6 activists charged with treason after addressing a February meeting in Harare where video footage of protests in Egypt and Tunisia was screened.
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In a bizarre demonstration of panic, police in Harare on 19 February swooped on 52 rights activists and arrested them for watching a video of protests in Egypt and Tunisia writes Dewa Mavhinga the regional coordinator for the Crisis in…
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Robert Mugabe’s regime desperate to suppress any popular revolt organised on the internet has arrested a 39 year old Bulawayo man Vikas Mavhudzi over a message he posted on the social networking site Facebook.
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I write this in solidarity with the ISO-Zim comrades who are in detention in Zimbabwe. Their crime being that they met to discuss events in Tunisia and Egypt. This has prompted me to interrogate the feasibility of non-military and…
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The National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) salutes the gallant people of Egypt for successfully and peacefully overthrowing a tyrant, Hosni Mubarak who ruled Egypt for 30 years.
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Cairo-Khalid Ibrahim Al-Laisi has been a soldier in the Egyptian army for 20 years. Today, far from shooting protesters, he says the time has come "to revolt against oppression." Al-Laisi, 38, is the face of an army that is one with…
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HARARE - War veterans have vowed to defend President Robert Mugabe's besieged government as political violence spreads countrywide. Events in Tunisia and currently Egypt have unsettled some government leaders on the African continent who…
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Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has backed popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt saying there is ‘general resentment of autocratic regimes’ and that ‘these governments have stayed in power forever and ever.’ He said there was…
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