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People walk past a money-changers sign at a market in Harare

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Premium badgeZimbabwe is world’s most miserable country, economist’s index claims

The competition is stiff in a post-Covid world of inflation and supply chain disruptions, but there is a clear winner for the title of the planet’s mo...

© A smelter plant at Anglo American Platinum’s Unki mine in Shurugwi, Zimbabwe, May 16, 2019. The country needs better power supply to support mining. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

Deep Drill

Premium badgeZimbabwe’s first oil-gas well signals new era for foreign investment, says Invictus Energy CEO Successful drilling for oil, gas and helium in northeast Zimbabwe shows that the country is open for business, Invictus Energy CEO Scott Macmillan tel...
© File photo of pylons that carry electricity from a coal fired power station in Hwange, Zimbabwe. (REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo)

unenlightened

Premium badgeSouth Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe: Blackouts to total darkness? To observers, it’s incomprehensible that countries with active perennial waterways – via Zambezi River – teeter on the verge of energy poverty.
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pulling all stops

Zimbabwe: A strategic presidential pardon? With less than three months left to the general elections, Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has decided to grant clemency to nearly one-fifth o...

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People walk past a money-changers sign at a market in Harare

Beauty Contest

Premium badgeZimbabwe is world’s most miserable country, economist’s index claims The competition is stiff in a post-Covid world of inflation and supply chain disruptions, but there is a clear winner for the title of the planet’s mo...
© A smelter plant at Anglo American Platinum’s Unki mine in Shurugwi, Zimbabwe, May 16, 2019. The country needs better power supply to support mining. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

Deep Drill

Premium badgeZimbabwe’s first oil-gas well signals new era for foreign investment, says Invictus Energy CEO Successful drilling for oil, gas and helium in northeast Zimbabwe shows that the country is open for business, Invictus Energy CEO Scott Macmillan tel...
© File photo of pylons that carry electricity from a coal fired power station in Hwange, Zimbabwe. (REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo)

unenlightened

Premium badgeSouth Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe: Blackouts to total darkness? To observers, it’s incomprehensible that countries with active perennial waterways – via Zambezi River – teeter on the verge of energy poverty.

Zimbabwe top stories

People walk past a money-changers sign at a market in Harare

Beauty Contest

Premium badgeZimbabwe is world’s most miserable country, economist’s index claims The competition is stiff in a post-Covid world of inflation and supply chain disruptions, but there is a clear winner for the title of the planet’s mo...
© A smelter plant at Anglo American Platinum’s Unki mine in Shurugwi, Zimbabwe, May 16, 2019. The country needs better power supply to support mining. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

Deep Drill

Premium badgeZimbabwe’s first oil-gas well signals new era for foreign investment, says Invictus Energy CEO Successful drilling for oil, gas and helium in northeast Zimbabwe shows that the country is open for business, Invictus Energy CEO Scott Macmillan tel...
© File photo of pylons that carry electricity from a coal fired power station in Hwange, Zimbabwe. (REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo)

unenlightened

Premium badgeSouth Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe: Blackouts to total darkness? To observers, it’s incomprehensible that countries with active perennial waterways – via Zambezi River – teeter on the verge of energy poverty.

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© Zimbabwe opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume, the leader of Transform Zimbabwe, speaks to the press after his release on bail from Chikurubi Maximum Prison in Harare, on September 2, 2020. – Opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume and award-winning journalist Hopewell Chin’ono were granted bail on September 2, 2020 at their fourth attempt after being detained in July for calling for protests. (Photo by Jekesai NJIKIZANA / AFP)

Invite spite

Premium badgeZimbabwe: Continued incarceration of opposition leaders could affect Commonwealth bid Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government regards the continued invitations to attend state functions in the United Kingdom as a sign that it...
© File photo of Douglas Mwonzora, leader of oppsotion party MDC-T(AFP photo/Jekesai Njikizana).

stalling plot

Premium badgeZimbabwe: Opposition MDC-T tries to delay the polls Zimbabwe’s opposition MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has attempted to delay the country’s polls by challenging the delimitation report at the courts on...
© Local residents walk past the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe

Fool’s Gold?

Premium badgeZimbabwe needs gold-reserve disclosure to support digital currency Zimbabwe’s introduction of a gold-backed digital currency needs to be accompanied by transparency of the country’s gold reserves to inspire confidence...
© A Zimbabwean doctor is immunized at Banket District Hospital in Zimbabwe. (Photo by Tafadzwa Ufumeli/AFP/Getty Images)

Healthcare violation

Premium badgeZimbabwe pushing controversial bill to prevent medical staff from emigrating In order to stop health workers from running abroad for better salaries, the Zimbabwean government is planning to enact a law that will criminalise th...
© No diaspora here: file photo of Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa supporters at his 2018 inauguration.(REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo)

vying to vote

Premium badgeZimbabwe: Denying diaspora vote is Zanu PF plan to manipulate poll Despite growing calls from opposition leaders and activists, the government and ruling party Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF)...
© A girl goes about her early morning duties pumping water into a bucket at a community borehole next to a polling station where voters are queuing to cast their ballot in Epworth township during by elections held in Zimbabwe, March 26 2022. (Photo by Jekesai NJIKIZANA / AFP)

election tactics

Premium badgeZimbabwe: Mnangagwa legalises illegal settlements as he targets urban votes Winning urban seats is crucial in Zimbabwe’s forthcoming August elections, as cities have been opposition strongholds since 2000.