By far the best coverage of the trainwreck known as Zimbabwe is from Al Jazeera
Activist appears in Zimbabwe court
Jestina Mukoko, a leading Zimbabwean human-rights activist, and nine others have been charged with plotting to overthrow Robert Mugabe's government.
The activists were brought to a court in the country's capital Harare on Wednesday.
Mukoko, a former newscaster who headed the Zimbabwe Peace Project, was taken away at gunpoint in Harare on December 3 by unidentified men.
If found guilty the activists could face the death penalty, lawyers said.
The case has added to doubts over implementation of a power-sharing agreement between President Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, seen as a chance of rescuing the once relatively prosperous country from economic collapse.
Hyper-inflation means prices double every day and a cholera epidemic has killed nearly 1,200 people.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2008/12/20081224163125717165.html
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