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par Vine le Lun 24 Mar - 1:02
Militants target Green Zone in Baghdad
Violence kills at least 57 throughout Iraq; deadliest attack strikes Mosul
updated 4:43 p.m. ET March 23, 2008
BAGHDAD - Rockets and mortars pounded Baghdad's U.S.-protected Green Zone Sunday and a suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi army post in the northern city of Mosul in a surge of attacks that killed at least 57 people nationwide.
The latest violence underscored the fragile security situation and the resilience of both Sunni and Shiite extremist groups as the war enters its sixth year and the U.S. death toll in the conflict approaches 4,000.
Attacks in Baghdad probably stemmed from rising tensions between rival Shiite groups — some of whom may have been behind the Green Zone blasts. It was the most sustained assault in months against the nerve center of the U.S. mission.
The deadliest attack of the day was in Mosul when a suicide driver slammed his vehicle through a security checkpoint in a hail of gunfire and detonated his explosives in front of an Iraqi headquarters building, killing 13 Iraqi soldiers and injuring 42 other people, police said.
Iraqi guards opened fire on the vehicle but couldn't stop it because the windshield had been bulletproofed, said an Iraqi army officer. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not supposed to release the information.
Mosul, Iraq's third largest city about 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, has been described as the last major urban area where the Sunni extremist al-Qaida group maintains a significant presence.
Green Zone under attack
[/b]In Baghdad, rockets and mortars began slamming into the Green Zone about sunrise, and scattered assaults persisted throughout the day, sending plumes of smoke rising over the heavily guarded district in the heart of the capital.
A U.S. public address system in the Green Zone warned people to "duck and cover" and to stay away from windows.
U.S. spokeswoman Mirembe Nantongo said four people were wounded in the Green Zone, which includes the U.S. and British embassies as well as major Iraqi government offices. She gave no nationalities.
But Iraqi police said 10 civilians were killed and more than 20 were injured in rocket or mortar blasts in scattered areas of eastern Baghdad — some of them probably due to misfired rounds.
Also in the capital, seven people were killed and 14 wounded in a suicide car bombing Sunday in the Shiite area of Shula in the capital, police reported. Such attacks are the hallmark of Sunni religious extremists.
Gunmen opened fire on passengers waiting for buses in a predominantly Shiite area in southeastern Baghdad, killing at least seven men and wounding 16 people, including women and children, according to police.
Violence kills at least 57 throughout Iraq; deadliest attack strikes Mosul
updated 4:43 p.m. ET March 23, 2008
BAGHDAD - Rockets and mortars pounded Baghdad's U.S.-protected Green Zone Sunday and a suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi army post in the northern city of Mosul in a surge of attacks that killed at least 57 people nationwide.
The latest violence underscored the fragile security situation and the resilience of both Sunni and Shiite extremist groups as the war enters its sixth year and the U.S. death toll in the conflict approaches 4,000.
Attacks in Baghdad probably stemmed from rising tensions between rival Shiite groups — some of whom may have been behind the Green Zone blasts. It was the most sustained assault in months against the nerve center of the U.S. mission.
The deadliest attack of the day was in Mosul when a suicide driver slammed his vehicle through a security checkpoint in a hail of gunfire and detonated his explosives in front of an Iraqi headquarters building, killing 13 Iraqi soldiers and injuring 42 other people, police said.
Iraqi guards opened fire on the vehicle but couldn't stop it because the windshield had been bulletproofed, said an Iraqi army officer. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not supposed to release the information.
Mosul, Iraq's third largest city about 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, has been described as the last major urban area where the Sunni extremist al-Qaida group maintains a significant presence.
Green Zone under attack
[/b]In Baghdad, rockets and mortars began slamming into the Green Zone about sunrise, and scattered assaults persisted throughout the day, sending plumes of smoke rising over the heavily guarded district in the heart of the capital.
A U.S. public address system in the Green Zone warned people to "duck and cover" and to stay away from windows.
U.S. spokeswoman Mirembe Nantongo said four people were wounded in the Green Zone, which includes the U.S. and British embassies as well as major Iraqi government offices. She gave no nationalities.
But Iraqi police said 10 civilians were killed and more than 20 were injured in rocket or mortar blasts in scattered areas of eastern Baghdad — some of them probably due to misfired rounds.
Also in the capital, seven people were killed and 14 wounded in a suicide car bombing Sunday in the Shiite area of Shula in the capital, police reported. Such attacks are the hallmark of Sunni religious extremists.
Gunmen opened fire on passengers waiting for buses in a predominantly Shiite area in southeastern Baghdad, killing at least seven men and wounding 16 people, including women and children, according to police.
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Dernière édition par Vine le Lun 24 Mar - 1:19, édité 2 fois
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par Vine le Lun 24 Mar - 1:08
US amends Kenyan travel warning
updated 5:20 p.m. ET March 22, 2008
NAIROBI, Kenya - The United States has amended a travel advisory cautioning against travel to parts of Kenya, saying threats of violence have "dramatically receded" following a political power-sharing deal.
A deeply flawed Dec. 27 presidential election unleashed weeks of violence that killed more than 1,000 people and tarnished Kenya's reputation as one of Africa's most stable and tourist-friendly countries. After weeks of bloodshed and mounting international pressure, President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga agreed last month to share power.
"Threats of political demonstrations and violence have dramatically receded," the State Department said Friday. The temporary suspension of the Peace Corps program in Kenya was also under review.
The United States still urged caution, recommending that Americans living in or traveling to Kenya "evaluate their personal security situation in light of continuing, potential threats from terrorism and crime."
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par Vine le Lun 24 Mar - 1:18
Women join demining charge in south Sudan
updated 11:11 a.m. ET March 23, 2008
, Sudan - Seven months pregnant Opayi Mary stands half a meter away from a mine made expressly to blow anything over 3 kg to pieces. For her, it's just part of a day's work.
Mary leads an all-female team of deminers working for Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) in one of south Sudan's most dangerous areas: the civil war battlefield Mile 38.
The location, 38 miles from the southern capital Juba, was on the frontline in a decades-long conflict between mainly Christian and animist southern rebels and the Islamist government in Khartoum.
updated 11:11 a.m. ET March 23, 2008
, Sudan - Seven months pregnant Opayi Mary stands half a meter away from a mine made expressly to blow anything over 3 kg to pieces. For her, it's just part of a day's work.
Mary leads an all-female team of deminers working for Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) in one of south Sudan's most dangerous areas: the civil war battlefield Mile 38.
The location, 38 miles from the southern capital Juba, was on the frontline in a decades-long conflict between mainly Christian and animist southern rebels and the Islamist government in Khartoum.
The war, fought over ideology and ethnicity and fuelled by oil, killed 2 million people and displaced 4 million before a peace deal was signed in 2005.
Now, south Sudan's semi-autonomous government, which will hold a referendum on secession in 2011, is trying to rebuild a region where even the most basic infrastructure is lacking.
Clearing the thousands of mines is an important part of efforts to rebuild the devastated region, where mined roads have made travel and transport of goods difficult.
"I was so afraid of my first one," Mary admits. Two years later she is now in charge of her group's safety and for exploding the mines taken from this empty scrubland.
"Now I have taken more than 20. I can even hold them with my hand," Mary grins. She is short and seems all burgeoning bump but walks fast between cordoned off areas.
Under Mary's watch, Joanne Jenty slides a prong into a marked-out area in front of her that she has already wetted. In the hot silence of the bush and on her hands and knees, she is feeling for the side of a mine that she will then delicately unearth.
People used to live along this major trade route but have been slow to return since the war ended, deterred by a lack of infrastructure, worries of a return to fighting and the lines of hidden explosives buried just inches under the earth's surface.
The UN Mine Action Office, which coordinates demining projects run by dozens of groups, says more than 2,000 people have been killed or injured by mines since the end of the war. The cost for farmers and communities is incalculable, it says.
STILL A STRUGGLE
With a new administration and funds of between $1.5 - $1.7 billion a year from the region's share of oil revenues, many southerners were expecting dramatic peace dividends for communities long alienated from basic services by war.
They have been disappointed. The daily struggle for survival has not changed for most rural populations and returning refugees put more pressure on scant resources. A government study showed around 90 percent see corruption as a major problem.
And the peace is still shaky.
In December and January, Misseriya tribesmen fought southern soldiers in the Abyei area, an oil-rich region straddling northern and southern Sudan. The distribution of oil revenues and border demarcation remain contentious issues.
But Mary, who fled the war to neighboring Uganda, believes passionately that peace will hold.
"My work is like a soldier," she explained.
"When we are in training we learn: your first mistake is your last," she said as she showed her simple bush tent that contained a fancy handbag and a bottle of nail polish.
So far, Mary's team and another NPA team have removed 205 antipersonnel mines and 96 anti-tank mines from around the main road that links neighboring Uganda to Juba, the capital of a vast and wild region that still has no large commercial farming or factories.
For Mary, who feels her baby move as she works, the job just has to be done, inch by grueling inch in prickling grass.
"We have to work hard to develop our country, even if it is hard," she said. "We have to clear. For my children and for others."
Mary initially wanted to be a doctor but could not afford the training. But her pragmatic mind has adapted well to clearing contaminated earth.
A WOMAN'S TOUCH
According to Lado Victor, from Norwegian People's Aid, women learn demining techniques as quickly as men but follow procedures more vigorously. The only complication is pregnancy.
Southerners have traditionally raised large families with up to 10 children, and since the war there is a social consensus on the need to repopulate. At any one time, a handful of the 25-woman team are pregnant, Victor explained.
The women used to have in-camp sitters who would look after the babies while they were in the minefields. But the sudden appearance of a rabid dog from the wilderness encouraged NPA to enforce longer maternity leave.
Mary will eventually leave her child with her mother in a nearby town. She admits that especially since she became pregnant for the first time there has been growing pressure on her to stop what many in the traditionally conservative south see as masculine and dangerous labor.
"A lot of people tell my husband he should stop me," she said. "I just don't mind it," she adds.
(Writing by Skye Wheeler; Editing by Alastair Sharp)
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par aNtaLi le Lun 24 Mar - 13:12
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par Vine le Lun 24 Mar - 14:10
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par Vine le Lun 24 Mar - 17:55
U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 4,000
Grim milestone reached when IED kills 4 U.S. soldiers in Baghdad
A casket team carries a coffin containing the remains of U.S. Army Corporal Christopher John-Lee West during a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery on Feb. 20, 2008
updated 10:42 a.m. ET March 24, 2008
BAGHDAD - The overall U.S. death toll in Iraq rose to 4,000 after four soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in Baghdad, a grim milestone that is likely to fuel calls for the withdrawal of American forces as the war enters its sixth year.
The White House said it was "a sober moment." President Bush received a lengthy update on the war and aides said he was likely to embrace recommendations for a pause in troop withdrawals beyond those already scheduled.
Bush was to participate in a two-hour conference by secure video hookup with Gen. David Petraeus, the top commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Petraeus and Crocker are due to testify in Congress on April 8-9.
The American deaths occurred Sunday, the same day rockets and mortars pounded the U.S.-protected Green Zone in Baghdad and a wave of attacks left at least 61 Iraqis dead nationwide.
An Iraqi military spokesman said Monday that troops had found rocket launching pads used by extremists to fire on the Green Zone, which houses the U.S. Embassy and the Iraqi government headquarters.
Grim milestone reached when IED kills 4 U.S. soldiers in Baghdad
A casket team carries a coffin containing the remains of U.S. Army Corporal Christopher John-Lee West during a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery on Feb. 20, 2008
updated 10:42 a.m. ET March 24, 2008
BAGHDAD - The overall U.S. death toll in Iraq rose to 4,000 after four soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in Baghdad, a grim milestone that is likely to fuel calls for the withdrawal of American forces as the war enters its sixth year.
The White House said it was "a sober moment." President Bush received a lengthy update on the war and aides said he was likely to embrace recommendations for a pause in troop withdrawals beyond those already scheduled.
Bush was to participate in a two-hour conference by secure video hookup with Gen. David Petraeus, the top commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Petraeus and Crocker are due to testify in Congress on April 8-9.
The American deaths occurred Sunday, the same day rockets and mortars pounded the U.S.-protected Green Zone in Baghdad and a wave of attacks left at least 61 Iraqis dead nationwide.
An Iraqi military spokesman said Monday that troops had found rocket launching pads used by extremists to fire on the Green Zone, which houses the U.S. Embassy and the Iraqi government headquarters.
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par Vine le Mer 26 Mar - 0:00
Aid agencies warn about Somalia
updated 3:51 p.m. ET March 25, 2008
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Forty local and international aid agencies warned Tuesday of an impending humanitarian catastrophe in war-ravaged Somalia if world leaders do not "urgently focus their attention" on the Horn of Africa country.
The organizations made the call in a joint statement released a day before the United Nations Security Council is to discuss Somalia.
In addition to soaring food prices, inflation and drought in large parts of Somalia, the country has more than 1 million people displaced from their homes, said the groups, which include Save the Children, World Vision, Oxfam and the International Medical Corps.
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Violence in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, forces about 20,000 people to flee their homes every month, the groups said.
An impoverished nation of 7 million, Somalia has been ravaged by violence and anarchy since warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 and then turned on one another. The current transitional government _ formed with U.N. help in 2004 _ has struggled to assert any real control.
"For too long, the needs of ordinary Somalis have been forgotten," the aid agencies said, urging the "international community and all parties to the conflict to urgently focus their attention on the catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Somalia."
The organizations listed obstacles that limit their humanitarian work, such as administrative delays, restrictions or delays of goods, attacks on humanitarian workers, carjackings and piracy.
Currently, there are 396 checkpoints and roadblocks in Somalia, compared to 147 in January 2007, the statement said.
A group of EU diplomats visited Mogadishu on Tuesday to show support for the Somali government's recent announcement to talk with all its opponents, including Islamic militants.
The EU is committed to helping "the government in implementing an all-inclusive political dialogue with the opposition," said Elisabeth Barbier, the French ambassador who led the delegation.
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Associated Press Writer Salad Duhul contributed to this report.
Violence in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, forces about 20,000 people to flee their homes every month, the groups said.
An impoverished nation of 7 million, Somalia has been ravaged by violence and anarchy since warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 and then turned on one another. The current transitional government _ formed with U.N. help in 2004 _ has struggled to assert any real control.
"For too long, the needs of ordinary Somalis have been forgotten," the aid agencies said, urging the "international community and all parties to the conflict to urgently focus their attention on the catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Somalia."
The organizations listed obstacles that limit their humanitarian work, such as administrative delays, restrictions or delays of goods, attacks on humanitarian workers, carjackings and piracy.
Currently, there are 396 checkpoints and roadblocks in Somalia, compared to 147 in January 2007, the statement said.
A group of EU diplomats visited Mogadishu on Tuesday to show support for the Somali government's recent announcement to talk with all its opponents, including Islamic militants.
The EU is committed to helping "the government in implementing an all-inclusive political dialogue with the opposition," said Elisabeth Barbier, the French ambassador who led the delegation.
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Associated Press Writer Salad Duhul contributed to this report.
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par Vine le Mer 26 Mar - 0:06
House blaze kills 5 children in Arkansas
Fire officials: Parents unable to reach children sleeping upstairs
updated 3:16 p.m. ET March 25, 2008
BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Five children died in a house fire Tuesday after their parents couldn’t get to them.
Fire Chief Dan White said the children were upstairs when the fire broke out and their parents were asleep downstairs.
The chief said the parents were awakened by a smoke alarm but could not get upstairs because of smoke and flames.
The children ranged in age from 7 to 13. Their parents escaped from the burning house.
White said the blaze appears to have been accidental.
Fire officials: Parents unable to reach children sleeping upstairs
updated 3:16 p.m. ET March 25, 2008
BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Five children died in a house fire Tuesday after their parents couldn’t get to them.
Fire Chief Dan White said the children were upstairs when the fire broke out and their parents were asleep downstairs.
The chief said the parents were awakened by a smoke alarm but could not get upstairs because of smoke and flames.
The children ranged in age from 7 to 13. Their parents escaped from the burning house.
White said the blaze appears to have been accidental.
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par Vine le Dim 30 Mar - 2:07
Eager Zimbabweans vote in critical election
Vote-rigging fears as Mugabe faces stiffest challenge yet to 28-year rule
updated 7:17 a.m. ET March 29, 2008
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabweans lined up before dawn Saturday for crucial elections in which President Robert Mugabe faces the toughest challenge yet to his 28-year rule.
Meanwhile, the opposition has been urging its supporters to defend their votes against an alleged vote-rigging plot.
With lines of up to 500, some people said they arrived at the polls as early as midnight. But more than a dozen poll stations monitored had not opened by 7:15 a.m., 15 minutes after the scheduled opening.
Vote-rigging fears as Mugabe faces stiffest challenge yet to 28-year rule
updated 7:17 a.m. ET March 29, 2008
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabweans lined up before dawn Saturday for crucial elections in which President Robert Mugabe faces the toughest challenge yet to his 28-year rule.
Meanwhile, the opposition has been urging its supporters to defend their votes against an alleged vote-rigging plot.
With lines of up to 500, some people said they arrived at the polls as early as midnight. But more than a dozen poll stations monitored had not opened by 7:15 a.m., 15 minutes after the scheduled opening.
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par Vine le Mar 1 Avr - 23:36
Zimbabwe opposition denies transition talks
Earlier, sources said Mugabe mulled stepping down
updated 3:33 p.m. ET April 1, 2008
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe’s opposition leader said Tuesday that his party is not in discussions with President Robert Mugabe’s team on the longtime leader relinquishing power.
Earlier, a businessman close to the electoral commission and a lawyer close to the opposition said such talks were under way.
But opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said late Tuesday that “there are no discussions.â€
The opposition has claimed victory in Saturday’s elections, but officials have yet to release results from the presidential vote.
Independent observers say trends indicate Tsvangirai won the most votes in the presidential race, but not enough to avoid a runoff — a prospect that could be humiliating to the 84-year-old president, who has been in power for 28 years.
No returns from Saturday’s presidential vote have been made public, fueling fears of rigging. Mugabe has been accused of stealing past elections, though that was before Zimbabwe’s economy collapsed and leading members of his own party openly defied him.
A person close to the Electoral Commission told the AP that Mugabe has been informed he is far behind Tsvangirai in preliminary election results, and that there could be an uprising if Mugabe were declared the winner. The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said aides to both men were discussing Mugabe’s ceding power.
[b]'Big wigs' considering defeat?[/b]
Marwick Khumalo, head of the Pan-African Parliament observer mission, had earlier indicated Mugabe's ZANU-PF party was considering the possibility of defeat.
“I was talking to some of the bigwigs in the ruling party and they also are concerned about the possibility of a change of guard,†he told South African Broadcasting Corp.’s SAfm radio.
“ZANU-PF has actually been institutionalized in the lives of Zimbabweans, so it is not easy for anyone within the sphere of the ruling party to accept that ‘maybe we might be defeated or might have been defeated,â€â€™ he added.
Results from the official Zimbabwe Electoral Commission on Tuesday showed ZANU-PF with a narrow lead of two seats in the parliamentary poll with 131 out of 210 constituencies declared. But a breakaway opposition party took another five seats.
A third government minister lost his seat and results showed Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change making some inroads into Mugabe’s traditional rural strongholds.
Two senior government sources who asked not to be named told Reuters that their projections showed Tsvangirai getting 48.3 percent, against Mugabe’s 43 percent, with third candidate Simba Makoni, a former finance minister, taking 8 percent.
“What this means is that we are looking at a re-run because he did not win with a margin of over 51 percent that would have given him the job straight away,†one of the sources told Reuters.
A projection by the independent Zimbabwe Election Support Network had Tsvangirai taking 49.4 percent and Mugabe 41.8 percent with Makoni on 8.2.
Lovemore Sekeramayi, an electoral official, went on state television Tuesday to say the commission was receiving presidential votes and would need to collate and verify them.
“We urge all Zimbabweans to remain patient as we go through this meticulous process,†he said.
Earlier, a businessman close to the electoral commission and a lawyer close to the opposition said such talks were under way.
But opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said late Tuesday that “there are no discussions.â€
Earlier, sources said Mugabe mulled stepping down
updated 3:33 p.m. ET April 1, 2008
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe’s opposition leader said Tuesday that his party is not in discussions with President Robert Mugabe’s team on the longtime leader relinquishing power.
Earlier, a businessman close to the electoral commission and a lawyer close to the opposition said such talks were under way.
But opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said late Tuesday that “there are no discussions.â€
The opposition has claimed victory in Saturday’s elections, but officials have yet to release results from the presidential vote.
Independent observers say trends indicate Tsvangirai won the most votes in the presidential race, but not enough to avoid a runoff — a prospect that could be humiliating to the 84-year-old president, who has been in power for 28 years.
No returns from Saturday’s presidential vote have been made public, fueling fears of rigging. Mugabe has been accused of stealing past elections, though that was before Zimbabwe’s economy collapsed and leading members of his own party openly defied him.
A person close to the Electoral Commission told the AP that Mugabe has been informed he is far behind Tsvangirai in preliminary election results, and that there could be an uprising if Mugabe were declared the winner. The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said aides to both men were discussing Mugabe’s ceding power.
[b]'Big wigs' considering defeat?[/b]
Marwick Khumalo, head of the Pan-African Parliament observer mission, had earlier indicated Mugabe's ZANU-PF party was considering the possibility of defeat.
“I was talking to some of the bigwigs in the ruling party and they also are concerned about the possibility of a change of guard,†he told South African Broadcasting Corp.’s SAfm radio.
“ZANU-PF has actually been institutionalized in the lives of Zimbabweans, so it is not easy for anyone within the sphere of the ruling party to accept that ‘maybe we might be defeated or might have been defeated,â€â€™ he added.
Results from the official Zimbabwe Electoral Commission on Tuesday showed ZANU-PF with a narrow lead of two seats in the parliamentary poll with 131 out of 210 constituencies declared. But a breakaway opposition party took another five seats.
A third government minister lost his seat and results showed Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change making some inroads into Mugabe’s traditional rural strongholds.
Two senior government sources who asked not to be named told Reuters that their projections showed Tsvangirai getting 48.3 percent, against Mugabe’s 43 percent, with third candidate Simba Makoni, a former finance minister, taking 8 percent.
“What this means is that we are looking at a re-run because he did not win with a margin of over 51 percent that would have given him the job straight away,†one of the sources told Reuters.
A projection by the independent Zimbabwe Election Support Network had Tsvangirai taking 49.4 percent and Mugabe 41.8 percent with Makoni on 8.2.
Lovemore Sekeramayi, an electoral official, went on state television Tuesday to say the commission was receiving presidential votes and would need to collate and verify them.
“We urge all Zimbabweans to remain patient as we go through this meticulous process,†he said.
Earlier, a businessman close to the electoral commission and a lawyer close to the opposition said such talks were under way.
But opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said late Tuesday that “there are no discussions.â€
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par Vine le Ven 4 Avr - 2:08
Zimbabwe opposition offices reportedly raided
Police also seize foreign journalists covering presidential election
Police also seize foreign journalists covering presidential election
A Zimbabwean looks on Thursday by her vegetable stand in Seke, a rural village south of Harare. Zimbabweans still are waiting to hear who won last weekend's elections. President Robert Mugabe's hold on power appears threatened.
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updated 4:55 p.m. ET April 3, 2008
HARARE, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe's government raided the offices of the main opposition movement and rounded up foreign journalists, including a New York Times correspondent, Thursday in an ominous indication that he may use intimidation and violence to keep his grip on power.
The New York Times said police took into custody its correspondent Barry Bearak, who was covering the elections.
"We do not know where he is being held, or what, if any, charges have been made against him," Bill Keller, executive editor of the Times, said in a statement. "We are making every effort to ascertain his status, to assure that he is safe and being well treated, and to secure his prompt release."
Keller noted that Bearak won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his coverage of life in war-torn Afghanistan.
Police raided two Harare hotels, one used by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, and ransacked some of the rooms. At the other hotel, about 20 armed police, many of them dressed in plain clothes, searched every room and arrested four people, Les Wild, co-owner of the York Lodge, told NBC News. Those arrested included two Christian aid workers and the two journalists. "Mugabe has started a crackdown," Movement for Democratic Change general secretary Tendai Biti told The Associated Press. "It is quite clear he has unleashed a war."
Biti said the raid at the Meikles Hotel targeted "certain people ... including myself." Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was "safe" but had canceled plans for a news conference, he said.
Biti said that Thursday's clampdown was a sign of worse to follow but that the opposition would not go into hiding.
"You can't hide away from fascism. Zimbabwe is a small country. So we are not going into hiding. We are just going to have to be extra cautious," he said.
Mugabe reportedly ready for a runoff
Independent observers say their own projection based on results posted at a representative sample of polling stations showed opposition leader Tsvangirai won the most votes in Saturday's election, but not enough to avoid a runoff.
Mugabe's Deputy Information Minister Bright Matonga said Mugabe was ready for a runoff, dashing hopes that he would bow quietly off the national stage he has dominated for 28 years.
"President Mugabe is going to fight. He is not going anywhere. He has not lost," Matonga said on the British Broadcasting Corp. "We are going to go hard and fight and get the majority required."
On Thursday, Mugabe was shown on state television meeting African Union election observers, his first public appearance since the elections.
[b]Questions about ballot counting[/b]
A commission member indicated presidential results would be announced Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. But that was before the commission announced that Thursday's expected announcement of senate results was delayed because of "logistical problems." The commission said it still was receiving ballot boxes from the provinces, raising questions about where those votes had been since Saturday's elections, amid charges there was a plot to rig the results. Western election observers have accused Mugabe of stealing previous elections.
Mugabe has ruled since his guerrilla army helped force an end to white minority rule in then-Rhodesia and bring about an independent Zimbabwe in 1980.
He ordered the often-violent seizures of white-owned commercial farms, ostensibly to return them to the landless black majority. Instead, Mugabe replaced a white elite with a black one, giving the farms to relatives, friends and cronies who allowed cultivated fields to be taken over by weeds.
Today, a third of the population depends on imported food handouts. Another third has fled the country and 80 percent is jobless. Inflation is the highest in the world at more than 100,000 percent and people suffer crippling shortages of food, water, electricity, fuel and medicine. Life expectancy has fallen from 60 to 35 years.
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updated 4:55 p.m. ET April 3, 2008
HARARE, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe's government raided the offices of the main opposition movement and rounded up foreign journalists, including a New York Times correspondent, Thursday in an ominous indication that he may use intimidation and violence to keep his grip on power.
The New York Times said police took into custody its correspondent Barry Bearak, who was covering the elections.
"We do not know where he is being held, or what, if any, charges have been made against him," Bill Keller, executive editor of the Times, said in a statement. "We are making every effort to ascertain his status, to assure that he is safe and being well treated, and to secure his prompt release."
Keller noted that Bearak won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his coverage of life in war-torn Afghanistan.
Police raided two Harare hotels, one used by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, and ransacked some of the rooms. At the other hotel, about 20 armed police, many of them dressed in plain clothes, searched every room and arrested four people, Les Wild, co-owner of the York Lodge, told NBC News. Those arrested included two Christian aid workers and the two journalists. "Mugabe has started a crackdown," Movement for Democratic Change general secretary Tendai Biti told The Associated Press. "It is quite clear he has unleashed a war."
Biti said the raid at the Meikles Hotel targeted "certain people ... including myself." Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was "safe" but had canceled plans for a news conference, he said.
Biti said that Thursday's clampdown was a sign of worse to follow but that the opposition would not go into hiding.
"You can't hide away from fascism. Zimbabwe is a small country. So we are not going into hiding. We are just going to have to be extra cautious," he said.
Mugabe reportedly ready for a runoff
Independent observers say their own projection based on results posted at a representative sample of polling stations showed opposition leader Tsvangirai won the most votes in Saturday's election, but not enough to avoid a runoff.
Mugabe's Deputy Information Minister Bright Matonga said Mugabe was ready for a runoff, dashing hopes that he would bow quietly off the national stage he has dominated for 28 years.
"President Mugabe is going to fight. He is not going anywhere. He has not lost," Matonga said on the British Broadcasting Corp. "We are going to go hard and fight and get the majority required."
On Thursday, Mugabe was shown on state television meeting African Union election observers, his first public appearance since the elections.
[b]Questions about ballot counting[/b]
A commission member indicated presidential results would be announced Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. But that was before the commission announced that Thursday's expected announcement of senate results was delayed because of "logistical problems." The commission said it still was receiving ballot boxes from the provinces, raising questions about where those votes had been since Saturday's elections, amid charges there was a plot to rig the results. Western election observers have accused Mugabe of stealing previous elections.
Mugabe has ruled since his guerrilla army helped force an end to white minority rule in then-Rhodesia and bring about an independent Zimbabwe in 1980.
He ordered the often-violent seizures of white-owned commercial farms, ostensibly to return them to the landless black majority. Instead, Mugabe replaced a white elite with a black one, giving the farms to relatives, friends and cronies who allowed cultivated fields to be taken over by weeds.
Today, a third of the population depends on imported food handouts. Another third has fled the country and 80 percent is jobless. Inflation is the highest in the world at more than 100,000 percent and people suffer crippling shortages of food, water, electricity, fuel and medicine. Life expectancy has fallen from 60 to 35 years.
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Re: the news
par OCrAzYgirlO le Ven 4 Avr - 2:23
thanx sweety thats so sad too much bad news... but it also happen in algeria
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par Vine le Ven 4 Avr - 2:31
it is in Zimbabwe. all the country of the world some time have bad .but some time have good. sis OCrAzYgirlO :(
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