Zimbabwe

© A farm worker at Redwood farm loads wheat from a combine harvester into a tractor on November 11, 2022 in Ticehurst, Zimbabwe. (Photo by KB Mpofu/Getty Images) (Photo by KB Mpofu / GETTY IMAGES EUROPE / Getty Images via AFP)

"knocking confidence"

Premium badgeZimbabwe: Bumper wheat harvest, but government owes farmers millions of USD Zimbabwe has achieved a record so far in wheat production by harvesting 375,000 metric tonnes (mt) at the end of 2022. However, this bumper harvest ha...
© A machine processes a lithium ion battery for iPhone in a factory in Dongguan, Guangdong province, China October 16, 2018. REUTERS/Joyce Zhou

Climbing Value Chain

Premium badgeZimbabwe lithium ore export ban may be a step towards refinery Zimbabwe’s ban on the export of lithium ore may be a step towards the creation of in-country refining capability, says Premier African Minerals CEO Ge...
© South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa meets with his Zimbabwean counterpart Emerson Mnangagwa during his visit in Harare, Zimbabwe on March 17, 2018. (John Cassim / Anadolu Agency/AFP)

quiet diplomacy

Premium badgeSouth Africa – Zimbabwe: ANC signals strong support for Mnangagwa In mid-December, Fikile Mbalula, the newly elected African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general, says the ruling party does not support regime ch...
© A Zimbabwe National Parks’ armed guard walks through piles of elephant ivory stored inside a strong room where Zimbabwe’s ivory is secured during a tour of the stockpile by European Union envoys, in Harare, on May 16, 2022. (Photo by Jekesai NJIKIZANA / AFP)

CITES Conference 2022

Premium badgeZimbabwe’s bid to push to trade ivory at this year’s conference of parties fails Zimbabwe’s hopes to sell its stockpile of ivory worth $600m were squashed after its proposal was rejected at the 19th Conference of Parties of the Con...

Zimbabwe top stories

© 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 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...

Zimbabwe top stories

© 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 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...

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© Emmerson Mnangagwa Junior, taken from Twitter.

piling on pressure

Premium badgeZimbabwe: US imposes sanctions on Mnangagwa’s son and wife of business ally Kudakwashe Tagwirei As the US-Africa Leaders Summit kicked off in Washington DC, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s son Emmerson Junior and Sandra Mpunga, the wife to busines...
Alpha Condé in January 2020 in Britain. © Henry Nicholls/REUTERS

egregious behaviour

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© File photo of a motorist driving on top of the wall of a nearly empty Kariba Dam in Kariba, Zimbabwe. (Photo: REUTERS)

electricity crisis

Premium badgeZimbabwe’s grappling with power outages could cost it dearly President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sailed through the impact of Covid-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. With several months away from Zimbabwe’s gene...
© Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa reviews the guard of hounour at the State House in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 9, 2022. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

region unity

Premium badgeZimbabwe: Commonwealth sends fact-finding mission to assess readmission After being suspended for more than three decades from the Commonwealth group of nations, Zimbabwe is angling for re-admission despite a chequered hum...
© Kembo Mohadi in Harare, on December 28, 2017. (Photo by Wilfred Kajese / AFP)

second chance

Premium badgeZimbabwe: Will ex-deputy president Kembo Mohadi come back in 2023? When President Emmerson Mnangagwa re-appointed former vice president Kembo Mohadi as the deputy president and second secretary at the recent Zanu PF e...
© Is Zimbabwe still being punished for the sins of late president Robert Mugabe? REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

New Deal

Premium badgeZimbabwe: Lithium-hungry UK, Europe should end sanctions, invest in refining The European Union and the UK need to end sanctions against Zimbabwe and invest in the country’s potential as a lithium refiner, Premier African Miner...