President Robert Mugabe

President Robert Mugabe said his government would deport all whites who refuse to abandon racist attitudes. Mugabe's threat followed several weeks of acrimony over government plans to seize white-owned farms for the resettlement of landless peasants.

Human rights groups and Western countries fear that a new batch of what they consider to be "blood diamonds" is about to enter international markets, culled from vast deposits in Zimbabwe. At stake is what happens to the Marange deposits in eastern Zimbabwe, believed to be the biggest diamond find in a generation, and the definition of what kind of diamonds should be kept out of international markets. Current restrictions on diamond sales are meant to ensure that consumers are not inadvertently funding wars in Africa.

Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai postponed his return home for a presidential runoff election after his party said it had discovered an assassination plot against him. Tsvangirai, head of the Movement for Democratic Change, has been out of Zimbabwe for more than a month. He had been due to return from Europe to campaign for the June 27 second-round ballot against President Robert Mugabe.

Mike Campbell, the white Zimbabwean farmer who won a landmark case in southern Africa's highest court challenging the seizure of his farm by President Robert Mugabe's government, died Wednesday. He was 78. Campbell, whose family said he died of complications from a savage beating by Mugabe loyalists in 2008, called himself a white African. "We're not British or Scottish or anything. We're African," he said stoutly in a 2007 interviews with The Times. But he died homeless in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, after his farm was seized and his house burned down by thugs from the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.

Roy Bennett, an official in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change, was released on bail by order of Zimbabwe's Supreme Court, and he called for forgiveness and reconciliation in the country. His release after almost a month in jail on terrorism charges could ease tension in the power-sharing government of President Robert Mugabe and Tsvangirai, which faces the task of rebuilding a shattered economy.

President Robert Mugabe vowed that "there will never be regime change" as he celebrated his 84th birthday at a rally ahead of elections next month. Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since its independence from Britain in 1980, lashed out at the country's "enemies" who have criticized his presidency, including the U.S. and Britain. Across the border, a few hundred Zimbabweans held a protest in the South African town of Musina.

President Robert Mugabe said veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation war will take up arms again if he loses a June 27 presidential runoff vote. Mugabe told youth members of his ruling ZANU-PF party that the veterans had said that they would launch a new bush war if the election was won by opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Tsvangirai, human rights groups and Western powers accuse Mugabe of unleashing a campaign of intimidation to win the runoff.

A peace activist has been traced to a notorious prison despite a court order that she be hospitalized, a human rights lawyer said. Jestina Mukoko and nine opposition members are accused of plotting to overthrow President Robert Mugabe. Lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa said police told her Mukoko had been taken to Chikurubi prison. Mukoko had been missing for three weeks before appearing in court Wednesday. A judge ordered that she receive medical attention in an investigation of possible torture.

President Robert Mugabe declared that there was "no cholera," even as the United Nations raised the death toll from the epidemic to 783. Cholera has spread rapidly in the southern African nation because of the country's crumbling healthcare system and the lack of clean water. At a state funeral for a ruling party official, Mugabe insisted the outbreak of the waterborne disease had been "arrested" with the help of the World Health Organization and other aid agencies.

Forty-five Zimbabwean activists who attended a meeting to discuss the successful uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia were charged Wednesday with treason, which could result in the death penalty, and subverting an elected government. Attorneys for the defendants were informed of the treason charges only 10 minutes before Wednesday's court hearing, and had no chance to discuss the charges with their clients, lawyer Marufu Mandevere said. After the hearing, the defendants were led out in leg irons and handcuffs, and prison authorities again denied lawyers access to their clients, Mandevere said.

Roy Bennett, a key ally of Zimbabwe's prime minister, was acquitted of terrorism charges Monday by a high court judge. The decision removes one source of friction within Zimbabwe's troubled unity government, which joins two longtime rivals: the ZANU-PF party of President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change, or MDC. However, many other sources of tension remain between the two ruling parties....

Zimbabwean generals known as hard-line supporters of President Robert Mugabe saluted former opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, a gesture welcomed as a public boost for the country's struggling coalition government. During presidential campaigning last year, generals vowed never to salute Tsvangirai, saying their loyalty was to Mugabe. But they showed Tsvangirai that mark of respect as he attended his first Armed Forces Day ceremony as prime minister.

Amnesty International said Thursday that serious human rights abuses continue in Zimbabwe and criticized members of President Robert Mugabe's ruling party, saying they regard violence as a useful political tool. After a six-day trip to Zimbabwe, the group's chief, Irene Khan, dismissed the government's explanation that it lacked the funds to make improvements on human rights.

Zimbabweans on Saturday celebrated their first Independence Day under a coalition government, with President Robert Mugabe calling for national reconciliation as he shared the stage with his former political rival. As on previous anniversaries, the military paraded and fighter planes flew over a stadium in Harare, the capital. But this year's proceedings were "indeed unique," Mugabe told the crowd of about 40,000, "giving us the opportunity to celebrate as one family."