Politics

The Taliban has marched into Kabul’s international airport, hours after the final US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan that ended America’s longest war. Standing on the tarmac, Taliban leaders pledged to secure the country, quickly reopen the airport and grant amnesty to former opponents. In a show of control, turbaned Taliban …

Churches Converge on Conflict and Peace (CCCOP), a consortium of Church Organisations working for peace says the government through the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) should help in investigating all cases of disappearances in order to bring closure to the victim’s families. This comes at a time when the …

Disgruntled veterans of the 1970s liberation war yesterday accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government of neglecting them, in a development signalling deepening ructions in Zanu PF. They also accused the ruling party of abusing them to carry out violent terror campaigns on its behalf and dumping them after elections. …

Zambia’s new President Hakainde Hichilema has replaced the country’s top military commanders and the head of the police – and signalled a focus on the security forces being more accountable to the citizens. The president late on Sunday announced new commanders of the Zambian army, the air force and the …

Opposition MDC-T leader, Douglas Mwonzora continues to get preferential treatment from the ruling Zanu PF after his formation was awarded over $59 million through the political finance quota. In an Extraordinary Government Gazette published Friday, Mwonzora was given a golden handshake which will see the party’s bank account credited with $59 …

A Chinese mining company, Heijin, is pushing to evict hundreds of villagers in Murehwa, Mashonaland East province, after it was given a special mining grant to extract black granite on densely populated land covering 300 hectares, the Zimbabwe Independent can exclusively reveal. This comes at a time Chinese companies are frenziedly descending …

The second group of Zimbabwean deportees from the United Kingdom arrived in the country this Thursday. The seven touched down at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport aboard a Boeing 767 aircraft. The deportees who only had small parcels with them were media shy with one of them indicating that …

Nine war veterans were arrested yesterday after they allegedly besieged Finance minister Mthuli Ncube’s office demanding better pensions. The war veterans, who are members of the War Veterans Welfare pressure group, who were also arrested at the New Government Complex in the central business district, were charged with inciting public …

Britain, which deported 14 Zimbabweans a month ago, is on Wednesday expected to send back to the southern African nation at least 20 more people with criminal records. Pardon Tapfumanei, an attorney representing some of the targeted Zimbabwean people, said the deportations are part of an agreement made by the …

It would not be completely out of place to state that like many African nations, Zimbabwe too is enveloped by Chinese influence, be it with regard to the political, military, or economic class. They all seem to be bowing down to the mighty Chinese who have invested heavily in the …