﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>MDC news stories on Newser</title><description>Read more MDC stories on Newser</description><link>http://www.newser.com/taggrid/28494/mdc.html</link><copyright>2009 - Newser</copyright><language>en-us</language><generator>Newser Feed Generator</generator><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 7:40:29 CST</pubDate><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/71895/tsvangirai-boycotts-unity-government-in-zimbabwe.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Tsvangirai Boycotts Unity Government in Zimbabwe</title><description>Zimbabwe PM Morgan Tsvangirai’s party will boycott Cabinet meetings and cut off communication with president Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF, theoretically its partner in government. The move accompanies growing anger among members of Tsvangirai’s MDC over Mugabe’s strong-arm tactics and the jailing of a Cabinet minister-designate, the New York Times reports.</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/71895/tsvangirai-boycotts-unity-government-in-zimbabwe.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:25:32 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/56492/tsvangirai-crash-was-no-accident-mdc.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Tsvangirai Crash Was No Accident: MDC</title><description>The car crash that killed Morgan Tsvangirai's wife last month may not have been accidental, the BBC reports, citing early reports from the investigation. Tsvangirai’s political party suspects the collision with a USAID truck was engineered to kill the Zimbabwean PM after he entered a power-sharing agreement with President Robert...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/56492/tsvangirai-crash-was-no-accident-mdc.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:16:23 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/52823/tsvangirai-crash-was-probably-an-accident.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Tsvangirai: Crash Was Probably an Accident</title><description>Morgan Tsvangirai today said that the car accident that killed his wife was likely just that: an accident. Tsvangrai’s MDC has raised suspicions that the crash could have been an assassination attempt, but the prime minister dismissed that theory. “When something happens, there is always speculation,” he said. “In this...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/52823/tsvangirai-crash-was-probably-an-accident.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:54:54 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/39699/mugabe-snubs-opposition-keeps-key-ministries.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Mugabe Snubs Opposition, Keeps Key Ministries</title><description>Zimbabwe's new unity government already is in jeopardy, and it hasn't started governing yet. Robert Mugabe handed out government ministries yesterday and kept the meaningful ones, including the army and police, for his own party, the BBC reports. The opposition MDC "totally and absolutely rejects this nonsense," said a spokesman....</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/39699/mugabe-snubs-opposition-keeps-key-ministries.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:07:02 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/37637/tsvangirai-zimbabwe-moving-on.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Tsvangirai: Zimbabwe 'Moving On'</title><description>Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's newly appointed PM after months of strife against President Robert Mugabe, is ready for the challenge of uniting his nation's dueling political factions. In an interview with the Guardian , Tsvangirai said that while Mugabe's Zanu-PF party is "moving on" without him, it's unlikely Mugabe will ever be...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/37637/tsvangirai-zimbabwe-moving-on.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/31730/teen-rapes-reported-at-mugabe-torture-camps.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Teen Rapes Reported at Mugabe Torture Camps</title><description>Teenage pregnancy rates have spiked after youth militia members began raping Zimbabwean girls in President Robert Mugabe's torture camps, human rights workers tell the Times of London . The stigma against rape victims has kept the victims mostly silent, but a single hospital saw a spike of 16 expectant teenagers, and...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/31730/teen-rapes-reported-at-mugabe-torture-camps.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 8:30:57 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/31007/election-is-on-mugabe.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Election Is On: Mugabe</title><description>Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s party maintains that tomorrow’s runoff election will go ahead as planned, despite international condemnation and the withdrawal of the opposition candidate, the New York Times reports. Former challenger Morgan Tsvangirai insists he wants negotiations between the two parties instead of polling. The president has implied that...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/31007/election-is-on-mugabe.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:58:50 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/30526/tsvangirai-may-drop-out.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Tsvangirai May Drop Out</title><description>Morgan Tsvangirai is seriously considering dropping out of Zimbabwe’s presidential run-off vote, an official in his party tells the BBC, in view of the mounting campaign of violence against his supporters and the diminishing prospects for fair polling. “There is a huge avalanche of calls and pressure from supporters across...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/30526/tsvangirai-may-drop-out.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 6:49:58 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/29852/mugabes-militia-burns-enemies-wives-alive.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Mugabe's Militia Burns Enemies' Wives Alive</title><description>Zimbabwean opposition leader Patson Chipiro came home Friday to a burning house. “I was trying to put the fire out,” he says. “I thought my wife was hiding in the bushes.” But Mrs. Chipiro was in the blazing house, where militia men loyal to Robert Mugabe had tossed her after...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/29852/mugabes-militia-burns-enemies-wives-alive.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:46:14 CDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>