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Zimbabwe has been flagged by the United Nations as one of the countries in the world systematically threatening civil liberties by imposing laws that affects human rights including the controversial Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Bill and the Zanu PF-supported Patriotic Bill. The country was named together with the Philippines, Thailand, …

Zimbabwe could easily be engulfed in a deadly conflict on the scale of Rwanda’s 1994 Genocide which claimed more than 900,000 lives, opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy leader, Tendai Biti, warned in parliament Tuesday. “Politics, in Zimbabwe, is suffocating because it is politics of intolerance, durawalls and division.,” …

Zimbabwe has been described as a military-run State whose future is being determined by the army. This was revealed on Monday during a Twitter space discussion hosted by Open Parly, which discussed the topic 2023 Elections: A Discussion on Security Sector Reforms. Analysts said the military, which assisted President Emmerson …

Zimbabwe released preliminary results of a census conducted in April, showing the population grew by 16.2 percent between 2012 and 2022. The country’s population grew from 13,061,239 in 2012 to 15,178,979 in 2022, the national statistics agency, Zimstat, said on Tuesday. The gap between the female and male population grew …

“For the common man, there is not really much to benefit directly from this, especially if you don’t have any excess cash.” HARARE: Zimbabwe has launched gold coins to be sold to the public in a bid to tame runaway inflation that has further eroded the country’s unstable currency. The …

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa on Monday waited three hours and was finally forced to abandon his visit to Chikurubi Maximum Prison to see jailed party activists including lawmakers Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole. Chamisa, an advocate, arrived at the prison during the afternoon visiting hour but …

Civil servants will stage a two-day strike on Wednesday and Thursday this week demanding United States dollar salaries at the same level as they were paid before October 2018 when Zimbabwe lifted the 1:1 pegging between the United States dollar and the bond note. The government raised salaries by 100 …

GOVERNMENT’S plans to introduce gold coins as an asset class which hedges investors from inflationary pressure could create arbitrage opportunities as well as trigger massive withdrawal of foreign exchange from the formal banking system, a new report has shown. Battling rising inflation and a weakening domestic currency, Zimbabwe’s central bank …

HEALTH experts have warned government to be on high alert following the recent World Health Organisation (WHO) announcement of heightened cases of monkeypox globally as the local public health system is in intensive care. Monkeypox is an infection caused by a virus in the same family as the smallpox virus. …

A 33-year-old woman has filed a police report in Queensland, Australia, accusing Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa of raping her when she was 15. Susan Mutami told police that Mnangagwa – then a cabinet minister – pursued her after meeting her during an interschools competition in 2003. She was in Form …