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Zimbabwe is hungry and broke, the country’s central bank governor has warned in a frank admission that President Robert Mugabe’s government is unable to provide adequate food…
The offices of Zimbabwe’s Voice of the People radio station have been destroyed by a fire bomb, its reporters have been beaten and jailed, its broadcasts jammed and now its…
Once hailed as the pride of Africa, Zimbabwe’s education system has been engulfed from top to bottom by the country’s political and economic crisis. The University of Zimbabwe,…
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is almost desperate for a chance to dialogue with Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF and believes the acquittal of its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai,…
Two South Africans acquitted by a Zimbabwean court of charges related to the alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea are to be questioned on Monday by the South African…
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe admitted for the first time this week that members of his family had been affected by HIV/Aids. Mugabe told a conference on Aids that unnamed…
The Zimbabwean government has announced that it intends to nationalise all farmland, a step that its critics fear will hasten the collapse of agriculture when millions of people…
”In the year since I was forced to leave the country, the situation in Zimbabwe has worsened in every respect. More people are going hungry, with nearly two-thirds of the…
The bus driver from Bulawayo grins and shrugs in typically Zimbabwean fashion as he explains the difficulties of feeding his family and keeping his five children in school. But…
Zimbabwe’s land seizures have escalated with the government’s confiscation of the country’s largest sugar producer, Hippo Valley. The vast estate in the south-eastern corner of…
President Robert Mugabe’s attempts to muzzle the press received a temporary setback on Wednesday when Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court struck down key sections of a law that makes it a…
Zanu-PF conceded this week that the opposition’s gains in the recent municipal elections had given it ”a rude wake-up call”. Information Minister Jonathan Moyo, speaking for…
The Zimbabwean government last week said that it would take control of the distribution of food aid, provoking suspicion that it will be channelled Zanu-PF supporters to help…
Once hailed as the pride of Africa, Zimbabwe’s education system has been engulfed from top to bottom by the country’s deepening political and economic crisis.
Night visits to my home by threatening men in vans with blacked out windows. Attacks vilifying me in the state press as a ”terrorist”, an ”agent of imperialism” and ”a liar”.…
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party celebrated crucial by-election victories in the capital on Monday, billing them as a springboard for mass action to topple President Robert Mugabe.
When Robert Mugabe boarded a plane for an extended holiday in Thailand a fortnight ago it probably did not occur to him that by the time he returned his hold on power would be in…
State torture and unwarranted arrests have increased dramatically in Zimbabwe in the past week, highlighting a drastic decline in the country’s security that could force the…
The diplomatic dispute between the United States and Zimbabwe has escalated after an employee of the US embassy in Harare was beaten by war veterans loyal to President Robert…
The United States government warned this week that it might take ”intrusive, interventionist measures” to deliver food aid directly to millions of famine-hit Zimbabweans if…
