Zimbabwe

African National Congress secretary-general Fikile Mbalula (Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko)

back a buddy

Premium badgeANC’s anti-West Mbalula openly backs ruling party in Zimbabwe election Zimbabwe makes it difficult for its diaspora to vote. Did the ANC just make it even less appealing by endorsing President Emmerson Mnangagwa?
Family and friends: President Mnangagwa’s protectors and business promoters. (Montage JA)

tentacular reach

Premium badgeZimbabwe: Who’s who in Mnangagwa’s power base? From the Belarusian president to his own son, Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa surrounds himself with cunning dealmakers to prolong his grip on...
The electoral road is littered with obstacles for the CCC’s Nelson Chamisa and his party. (REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo)

faking it

Premium badgeZimbabwe: Opposition says electoral fraud favouring ZANU-PF Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the CCC, has made accusations that damage the credibility of the country’s highly anticipated polls.
Nelson Chamisa of the Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) is playing the anti-corruption card. Nelson Chamisa of the Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) is playing the anti-corruption card. (Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo)

dirty money

Premium badgeZimbabwe elections: Has Chamisa found a chink in Mnangagwa’s armour? A damning Al Jazeera documentary on gold trafficking in Zimbabwe has given Nelson Chamisa a chance to vaunt his anti-corruption agenda ahead of his el...

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78th UNGA General Debate at UN HQ in New York © Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the UN General Assembly in New York, who said elections were peaceful, free, fair, transparent and credible. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)

funds stopped

Premium badgeZimbabwe: Mnangagwa’s government faces challenges in unlocking international support Following Zimbabwe’s disputed polls, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been trying to charm the world into giving the ZANU-PF government legitimacy. ...
Relations are tense between Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema (pictured) and his neighbour, Zimbabwean counterpart Emmerson Mnangagwa. (Reuters/Tiksa Negeri)

Neighbour issues

Premium badgeZimbabwe/Zambia: Electoral fraud report exposes frosty relations A diplomatic tiff is simmering between Zimbabwe and Zambia, its neighbour to the north.
Zimbabwe’s new president Emmerson Mnangagwa and his wife Auxillia in 2017. (Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko)

Nepo babies

Premium badgeZimbabwe: Ignoring the party, Mnangagwa selects his friends and family cabinet Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has stocked the cabinet with friends and relatives, an official change from his first term.

Zimbabwe top stories

78th UNGA General Debate at UN HQ in New York © Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the UN General Assembly in New York, who said elections were peaceful, free, fair, transparent and credible. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)

funds stopped

Premium badgeZimbabwe: Mnangagwa’s government faces challenges in unlocking international support Following Zimbabwe’s disputed polls, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been trying to charm the world into giving the ZANU-PF government legitimacy. ...
Relations are tense between Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema (pictured) and his neighbour, Zimbabwean counterpart Emmerson Mnangagwa. (Reuters/Tiksa Negeri)

Neighbour issues

Premium badgeZimbabwe/Zambia: Electoral fraud report exposes frosty relations A diplomatic tiff is simmering between Zimbabwe and Zambia, its neighbour to the north.
Zimbabwe’s new president Emmerson Mnangagwa and his wife Auxillia in 2017. (Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko)

Nepo babies

Premium badgeZimbabwe: Ignoring the party, Mnangagwa selects his friends and family cabinet Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has stocked the cabinet with friends and relatives, an official change from his first term.

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Cotton originally promised a good living for Zimbabwean land settlers, but no more. (REUTERS/Howard Burditt)

cottoning on

Premium badgeIn Zimbabwe, will Chamisa’s cotton promises reel in rural voters? Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa is targeting Zanu-PF’s rural heartland in an effort to unseat Mnangagwa in August elections. 
Zimbabwe President and ZANU-PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa

free and fair

As the Carter Center heads to Zimbabwe, when should election observers stay at home?  International election observers are on their way to Zimbabwe for the 2023 general election. Teams from the European Union, Carter Centre and the Afri...
© Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa attends a joint press conference with Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi (not pictured) at the State House in Harare, Zimbabwe, on July 13, 2023. Iran’s Presidency/Mohammad Javad Ostad/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS

doomed to failure?

Premium badgeZimbabwe: President Mnangagwa’s 10 unfulfilled election promises The government failed to live up to a large number of promises over the past years, from reducing poverty to enhancing key public services.
Emmerson Mnangagwa Zimbabwe

bull mango

Premium badgeZimbabwe: Poll suggests election is headed to a runoff Afrobarometer’s latest polling shows an uncomfortably tight race for President Emmerson Mnangagwa against opposition leader Nelson Chamisa.
Zenophobia South Africa Zimbabwe protesters

homegrown aliens

Premium badgeZimbabweans: Strangers in their motherland Zimbabweans are subject to disdain in South Africa both officially and unofficially, but did you know they’re actually part of the same DNA pool?
Joe Biden, US-Africa Leaders Summit

Real talk

Premium badgeAfricans challenge Biden policies at US business summit From industrial policy to AGOA, attendees at the US-Africa Business Summit in Botswana pressed the US to rethink its approach to the continent.