President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has returned after a month-long holiday. On Friday Mugabe, who will turn 92 on February 21, came back after a holiday which spiked rumours that he had suffered a heart attack and collapsed. However, the presidency dismissed the idea. According to state media, rumours over…
ZIMBABWE’S veteran ruler, President Robert Mugabe is turning to Nigerian billionaire and Africa’s richest man, Mr Aliko Dangote for elusive foreign direct investment, portraying him as the saviour for his country’s unforgiving economic woes. The wealthy Mr Dangote was in the Southern African country late August to scout for opportunities…
Bhejane Nqobile Bhebhe is a Zimbabwe journalist based in the capital, Harare.
Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, has threatened to introduce new harsher and more rigid media laws after he accused the press of lying and writing fiction about him, New Zimbabwe reported. The statement was made during Mugabe’s speech at the luncheon of the third session of the 8th Parliament on Thursday….
President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, gave the wrong speech at the opening of parliament yesterday, his spokesman said. The mix-up was blamed on an office error. The Herald, the Zimbabwean state run newspaper, reported the mistake quoting the presidential spokesman George Charamba explaining the incident. “There has been a mix-up…
Robert Mugabe wants your money again. After years of failing to repay Zimbabwe’s staggering debts, repeatedly blaming the United States for its problems, and shamelessly courting China, the nonagenarian president is now seeking a rapprochement. To be clear, this is the wrong time for Washington to embrace an aging dictator…
Todd Moss is senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and a former deputy assistant secretary of state for Africa. Jeffrey Smith is an Africa specialist at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights. Follow them on Twitter at @toddjmoss and @Smith_RFKennedy.
The Zimbabwean minister, Martin Dinha, the minister of state for Mashonaland Central province, has been accused of corruption. He is accused of extorting a white farmer in order to protect him from eviction. Dinha allegedly demanded US$60,000 from a tobacco farmer, Guy Frank Dollar. Dollar is one of the last…
The African Union (AU) is plagued by allegations of its ineffectiveness. From its inability to act against the Ebola crisis to the migrant problem in the Mediterranean Sea, AU has been constantly criticized. One can say that the union’s hands are tied. Given its unsustainable and problematic funding, AU is…
Yesterday, Robert Mugabe, the serving President of Zimbabwe since 1987, threatened to expel U.S. and British diplomats from the country. Mugabe has accused the representatives of these two Western states of sponsoring vendors to resist their relocation from Harare city centre. The relocation is due to his plans to open…