Banned BBC and CNN welcome back to Zimbabwe, says Mugabes Spokesperson

Zimbabwe has told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Cable News Network (CNN) that their journalists are welcome in the country, George Charamba, President Mugabes spokesperson and Ministry of Information Permanent Secretary has said.

The BBC was banned from Zimbabwe in July 2001, five months after the organisations Harare correspondent Joseph Winter had been expelled.

In comments carried by the state-run Sunday Mail newspaper on 17 May 2009, Charamba