by Sean Reilly | Aug 26, 2008
Christian leaders in Zimbabwe have called on parties to continuing power-sharing talks to shun partisan interests and urgently break the impasse that is holding back the conclusion of negotiations aimed at resolving the country’s political and economic crisis....
by Sean Reilly | Jul 17, 2008
Delegates from churches in Zimbabwe, South Africa and several other countries in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) have expressed overwhelming support for targeted economic sanctions against Zimbabwe as a practical strategy to loosen former President...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 9, 2008
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that Robert Mugabe’s regime was ‘illegitimate’ and had ‘blood on its hands’. He was speaking at the close of the three-day G8 Summit in Hokkaido, Japan, today. There should be “no safe haven, no place to hide for the criminal cabal...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 4, 2008
After “what can be described as a façade election”, the World Council of Churches (WCC) has called for the protection of the Zimbabwe population “against increased and continued violence”, an “intensified international monitoring of the...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 2, 2008
While some African national leaders continued to court Robert Mugabe at an African Union meeting in Egypt, despite their own observers saying that the presidential election was unacceptable, South African churches have spooken out candidly. Christian leaders in South...