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Zimbabwe

Borrower beware

Zimbabwe’s ill-advised plan to raise money through a sovereign bond

The Zimbabwean government recently signed an agreement to pay 4,500 white farmers $3.5bn for infrastructure improvements on the land expropriated ... by the government during the chaotic land reform programme of 1997/8.

Zimbabwe Mugabe

mother, whore, witch

Zimbabwe: Mother, whore, or witch – the battle for women in politics

The political arena in Zimbabwe is a de facto male space in which women play very peripheral and insignificant roles. ...

Zimbabwe Daily Life

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.

Zimbabwe top stories

ripple effect

When South Africa sneezes, Zimbabwe catches the cold

Zimbabwe: Is the government’s strategy of balancing the books paying off?

A woman sorts a bale of tobacco at a processing plant outside Harare

Lose lose situation

Zimbabwe is a world tobacco superproducer… but farmers struggle to survive

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ripple effect

When South Africa sneezes, Zimbabwe catches the cold

Zimbabwe: Is the government’s strategy of balancing the books paying off?

A woman sorts a bale of tobacco at a processing plant outside Harare

Lose lose situation

Zimbabwe is a world tobacco superproducer… but farmers struggle to survive

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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. ...

Zimbabwe Health Minster Arrested

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. ...

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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.

Ethiopia Africa Summit

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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.

Zimbabwe Opposition

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. ...

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