Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has won most of the parliamentary seats in the general elections, says a senior source in the ruling party ZANU-PF. ZANU-PF party spokesman Rugare Gumbo announced on Friday that Mugabe has won way over 50 percent of the 210 parliamentary seats. The opposition MDC party, which is led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, won only 10 seats. Election results also showed... 

Zimbabwean farmers attend a meeting of white commercial farmers in capital Harare. Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court heard a case on behalf of three farmers who claimed the constitution excluded confiscation of their land because they bought their properties after the colonial era ended with independence in 1980. The Supreme Court did not agree and quickly dismissed their application. One of the farmers,... 

White-owned companies in Zimbabwe will be forced to hand control to black businessmen under laws reminiscent of those that led to the seizure of the nation’s farms. The regulations demand that companies, including foreign firms, hand over at least 51 per cent of ownership to “indigenous” Zimbabweans. Thousands of businesses, including the operations of Barclays bank, Standard Chartered...