amplifying public discourse Zimbabwe: Mobile phone apps are changing talk radio In Africa, radio still has wider geographical reach and higher audiences than any other information and communication technology, including television ... and newspapers.
ZIMBABWE PROTESTS Zimbabwe: Joint statement on arrest of journalist Hopewell Chin’ono The arrest and detention by the Zimbabwean authorities of journalist Hopewell Chin’ono and activist Jacob Ngarivhume on charges of inciting ... violence against Emmerson Mnangagwa’s presidency have ratcheted up tensions in the country ahead of a planned demonstration against government corruption on 31 July.
PERFORMANCE BOOST South Africa: PPC hails lack of cheap imports for surge in cement sales South Africa’s closed borders have helped lift cement producer PPC’s sales because no cheap imports are coming into the country. ...
letter from Harare Zimbabwe: Covid-19 drugs scandal lays bare the rot in the system A picture that went viral on social media in Zimbabwe at the end of last week reminded many of an equally famous picture from 2007 of a young ... boy smiling as he carried wads of notes at the height of the country’s hyperinflation.
TALKING AFRICA PODCAST Zimbabwe on the brink: Inflation, currency, clashes – what next? Today, many compare the political confrontation and economic meltdown in Zimbabwe with the position of the country a decade ago. ...
bitter spat Zimbabwe and US tensions: DC calls Harare a ‘foreign adversary’ “As tall as he is, if he continues to do that I will kick him out of the country,” thundered Zimbabwe’s former President Robert Mugabe ... in 2008, his anger aimed at the then United States ambassador James McGee after the diplomat questioned the results of Zimbabwe’s 2008 general elections.
trade within Coronavirus: Africa needs AfCFTA to transform its economies Of all the legacies of colonialism, one of those which has most hampered economic growth and the alleviation of poverty is fragmentation – ... neighbours with different currencies, regulations enabling trade with Europe but not with other Africans, and a neglect of intra-African transport and infrastructure links to facilitate this trade.
REVOLUTIONARY MOMENT Zimbabwe’s critical choice: state collapse or people-powered change Emmerson Mnangagwa told us the voice of the people is the voice of God. He didn’t listen to either. Now he faces a people’s power ... movement.
DISTRESS CALL Coronavirus: Ease sanctions for Zimbabwe and Sudan pleads AU Chair African Union (AU) chairperson Cyril Ramaphosa has implored the international community to lift economic sanctions against Zimbabwe and Sudan ... to enable the countries to fight the spread of COVID-19. Article 4/10 of "Corona Chronicles: 27 April – 30 April"
scales and smuggling Pangolin: The trail of the lucrative trade from Lagos to Kuala Lumpur Suspected to be the cause of the coronavirus pandemic, the pangolin is the most poached mammal on the planet. It is now at the heart of a vast, ... lucrative but illegal trade between Africa and Asia.