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SENIOR Zanu PF politicians and members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces have with the help of Canadian lobbyists Dickens & Madson turned Zimbabwe into a hub for trade in "blood" diamonds illegally brought into the country from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), it emerged this week. The Zimbabwe Independent has been told how gemstones from the DRC have been laundered to line the pockets of Zanu PF big-wigs. American international diamond buyer, John Marsischky, managing director of gemstones company Flashes of Color, revealed in an interview this week that Dickens & Madson, the company which last week claimed it ...

Tsvangirai denies the allegations Zimbabwe's main opposition leader says he is to face charges of high treason - an offence punishable by death - over an alleged plot to assassinate President Robert Mugabe. Morgan Tsvangirai's lawyer, Innocent Chagonda, said his client was released after being questioned at central Harare police station for two hours and told he would be summoned at a later date. The accusations against Mr Tsvangirai, who heads the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), are based on a mysterious videotape broadcast on Australian television. "The charge was that I had committed treason and that they would like ...