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- May 28: Manicaland province was rocked by a fresh wave of violence Saturday as armed soldiers and militias indiscriminately shot and beat up people at Murambinda growth point, leaving one person dead and 31 hospitalised.
- May 27: Ethiopia’s former dictator, Mengistu Haile Mariam, is still enjoying Mugabe’s protection in Zimbabwe, but that could soon change. MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa said if party leader Morgan Tsvangirai wins the presidential run-off, Mengistu will be extradited to face justice in Ethiopia.
- May 26: There are credible news reports that Robert Mugabe’s health is failing. The UK Sunday Times reports that last week he flew to Singapore to have tests for prostate cancer.
- May 24: MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai is reportedly back in Zimbabwe where he is due to start campaigning for the presidential run-off election that is scheduled for June 27.
- May 23: Vice-President Joice Mujuru and her husband Solomon are reported to have strongly objected to the use of violence to coerce rural voters into voting for Robert Mugabe in the second round of the presidential poll.
- May 22: A heavily pregnant woman who was three months away from giving birth was bludgeoned to death in a ‘horrific, brutal and frenzied attack’ that left her almost unrecognizable. Rosemary Maramba’s body was found in Nhakiwa village in Mutawatawa in Mashonaland Central.
- May 21: The Chinese government on Wednesday denied that a ship, the An Yue Jiang, from their country carrying arms has managed to offload its ‘deadly cargo’ to the regime in Harare.
