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https://www.flickr.com/photos/zimbabwevigil/21468418138/sizes/m/ The Zimbabwean Industry and Commerce Minister Mike Bimha and Zanu PF cronies had to change venues for a London conference on Wednesday because of a protest by exiled Zimbabwea...
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Photolink: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zimbabwevigil/21598995186/sizes/m/ A large group of exiled Zimbabweans protested in Central London on Tuesday morning outside a meeting at which a delegation representing the Mugabe regime tried to ...
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The fiasco of 91-year-old Mugabe reading the wrong speech at the opening of Parliament cannot be dismissed as ‘a common era’ as the Herald put it (before correcting its spelling error!). No, the pantomime of the President reading out a ...
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The International Monetary Fund says that even if the Zimbabwean government makes economic reforms it will take at least three years before it can expect loans from international lenders. The head of an IMF mission which has just visited Z...
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Photolinks: https://www.flickr.com/photos/90023465@N03/20905023818/sizes/m/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/90023465@N03/20950593498/sizes/m/ This week the Vigil’s sister organization Restoration of Human Rights in Zimbabwe took to the s...
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‘There are lies, damned lies and statistics’ goes the saying. Mugabe ticked all these boxes in his State of the Nation Address to Parliament. From his preliminary lie boasting of ‘peace and stability’, to his damned lie about tackling co...
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All the reports we get at the Vigil suggest that the wheels are coming off Zimbabwe. This week we were sent several emails which in different ways graphically show how bad things are becoming. ‘We live in a country with absolutely no rule...
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Photolink: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zimbabwevigil/20593480542/sizes/m/ Sacked information minister Jonathan Moyo simply can’t get out of propaganda mode. From his lowly perch as just one of the education ministers, Moyo is reduced t...
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Picture links:https://www.flickr.com/photos/zimbabwevigil/20401743212/sizes/m/https://www.flickr.com/photos/zimbabwevigil/20223978889/sizes/m/ One of the leaders of the Gamatox faction has complained that Zanu PF has been turned into Muga...
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The second anniversary of the last stolen elections passed with little remark – though Zanu PF acknowledged for the first time the hollowness of its ZimAsset election manifesto. At the time it was unveiled the Vigil described the five-year economi...
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/zimbabwevigil/19816436830/sizes/o/ With her magical spiritual powers (full marks to Zimbabwe’s top university for spotting this so quickly) Amai Grace Mugabe PhD miraculously manifested herself at the Vigil i...
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Exiled Zimbabweans and friends will be holding a party at the Zimbabwe Embassy in London on Saturday 25th July to mark the 50th birthday of Dr Amai Mugabe. The Zimbabwe Vigil hopes the party will be attended by the spouse of the Zimbabwe Am...
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Suddenly Zimbabwe is back in the news. Having spent the last thirteen years trying vainly to persuade the world to pay attention to the unfolding agony of Zimbabwe, the Vigil is naturally pleased at the attention Zimbabwe is now attracting – t...
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Photolinks: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zimbabwevigil/19585016836/sizes/m/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/zimbabwevigil/19604348942/sizes/m/ Exiled Zimbabweans and friends demonstrated outside the Zimbabwe Embassy in London to mark 4 mon...
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The Vigil has launched a petition calling for the arraignment of Mugabe before the International Criminal Court. We know he will be protected by his Security Council friends in Beijing and Moscow but we wish to focus attention on the evidence fo...
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Photolinks: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zimbabwevigil/19220371021/sizes/m/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/zimbabwevigil/19028728030/sizes/m/ The Zimbabwean diaspora turned out in force to present a petition to the Prime Minister’s off...
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Zimbabwean Downing Street Racism Demonstration – Media release: 24th June 2015 Zimbabwean exiles in the UK are to present a petition to Prime Minister David Cameron’s official residence at 10 Downing Street on Saturday 27th June disowni...
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News that Mali is to donate $300 million to avert starvation in Zimbabwe would be warmly welcomed by the worried Zimbabwean diaspora, scrimping to send money home to help our suffering families. But such manna from heaven is unlikely to say th...
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There are big issues facing leaders at the African Union Summit in Johannesburg’s salubrious Sandton. But the Vigil believes that AU Chair Mugabe is not the person who can deal with them. The theme of the meeting is worthy: ‘Year of Wom...
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Photolinks:https://www.flickr.com/photos/zimbabwevigil/18539872111/sizes/o/https://www.flickr.com/photos/zimbabwevigil/17915350004/sizes/o/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/article-487526/John-Simpson-fears-bikini-clad-newsreaders.html All Zi...