Mnangagwa
Southern Africa
Police arrest two in Zimbabwe for selling fake COVID-19 results
Police in Zimbabwe have arrested two men at the country’s northern Chirundu border post, the gateway to neighbouring Zambia, for selling fake COVID-19 test results, after a tip from the public.Zimbabwe has begun opening its borders and travelers are...
Southern Africa
Zimbabwe nurses end 3-month long strike over pay
Zimbabwe’s biggest nurses union said on Wednesday it was encouraging its members to end a pay strike which started in June and which forced major hospitals to turn away patients at a time the country is fighting the coronavirus...
Southern Africa
Group of Zimbabwe white farmers rejects govt’s $3.5b compensation plan as unfair
An organisation in Zimbabwe, for the White farmers disposed of their land during government's land reform process has dismissed a recent US$3.5B compensation fund offered to them calling it unfair.The group known as SADC Tribunal Rights Watch, said in...
Southern Africa
After arrest, Zimbabwean novelist decries state “chokehold”
Award-winning Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker arrested at recent protests accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government on Tuesday of holding its people in a repressive “chokehold” as they endured an economic emergency.Tsitsi Dangarembga, whose latest book “This Mournable Body” has been...
Southern Africa
CIVICUS, others condemn Zimbabwe continued crackdown on critics
Zimbabwe’s military and police continue the arrests of scores of critics/opposition figures after last week's aborted anti-government protest, according to reports.Global civil society alliance CIVICUS has condemned the action of the government, describing it as barbaric, the group also...
Southern Africa
Zimbabwe police intensifies crackdown on journalists, opposition, scores arrested
Zimbabwean police has intensified crackdown on opposing voices in the wake of opposition defiance to embark on protest over corruptions in the President Mnangagwa led Zanu-PF government.Scores of protesters were arrested Friday including the award-winning Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga...
Southern Africa
Zimbabwe businesses closed, streets deserted on day of protests
Zimbabwe’s businesses were shut and streets deserted in the capital Harare early on Friday as security forces increased patrols to stop anti-government protests called by activists over corruption and economic hardship.President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is under pressure to revive...
Southern Africa
A day before planned protest, Zimbabwe shutdown streets, shops
Zimbabwe’s security forces on Thursday cleared people off streets of the capital Harare and forced shops to close, a day before planned anti-government protests during the worst economic crisis in nearly a decade.President Emmerson Mnangagwa has struggled to keep...
Southern Africa
Zimbabwe agrees to pay $3.5b compensation to white farmers
Zimbabwe agreed on Wednesday to pay $3.5 billion in compensation to white farmers whose land was expropriated by the government to resettle black families, moving a step closer to resolving one the most divisive policies of the Robert Mugabe...
Southern Africa
Zimbabwe general, who helped plot Mugabe ouster, dies at 65
Zimbabwe’s agriculture minister Perrance Shiri, a retired general who helped plot the ouster of Robert Mugabe in a 2017 coup, has died, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Wednesday.Shiri, who commanded the air force for 25 years until he joined...
Latest News
Chad says army killed 300 rebels fighters
Chad military says it has killed some 300 rebels advancing on the capital, N’Djamena, as the government on Monday...