Tag Archives: Zimbabwe

Changing politics in Zimbabwe – Youths are taking control

May 1, 2013 1 comment

BULAWAYO ,  (IPS) - As Zimbabwe’s young politicians increase their demands to be allowed to play a greater role in the running of the country, analysts say that this could signal a change in youth vo...

No reforms in Zimbabwe as Mugabe continues to intimidate and crackdown...

April 22, 2013 no comments

HARARE,  (IPS) - As Zimbabwe heads to the polls later this year, media analysts and journalists are concerned about increasing crackdowns on both the judiciary and the media. This comes as stalwarts ...

Canada funds IOM humanitarian projects in Zimbabwe

April 19, 2013 1 comment

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 19, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO)  – The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has made a C$1 million contribution towards IOM’s humanitarian pro...

Zimbabwe awaits Malawi President Joyce Banda to open Premier Trade Fai...

April 17, 2013 1 comment

Malawi President Joyce Banda is scheduled to officially open the Zimbabwe 2013 International Trade Fair which runs from April 23 to 27 in Bulawayo, courtesy of an invitation of the country’s Presiden...

There is no new Zimbabwe – Arrests and intimidation continues

March 27, 2013 no comments

HARARE, Mar 21 2013 - Nyarai Mudimu (IPS) - Heightened political tension between the major rivals in Zimbabwe’s coalition government and increased clampdowns on civil society have left questions abou...

Prominent businessman denies crime link in Zimbabwe

March 26, 2013 no comments

A prominent Zimbabwean businessman Mr Abraham Chikozho of Chikozho and Sons buses, has dismissed as untrue and damaging, claims that he was involved in a case where three men are being accused of arm...

EU suspends more asset freezes and travel bans on Zimbabwe following r...

March 25, 2013 1 comment

LONDON, United-Kingdom, March 25, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – European nations suspend most restrictive measures on Zimbabwe in response to referendum. Onus on Zimbabwe’s leaders ...

Malawian truck driver caught with bags of hemp in Zimbabwe

January 17, 2013 1 comment

A Malawian driver is the hands of Zimbabwe police after the truck he was driving in was intercepted by the country’s law enforcers, because he was carrying some 3,700 kilograms of marijuana, it has b...

Marange diamond fields in Zimbabwe: Zanu–PF’s enrichment project?

January 13, 2013 1 comment

Zimbabwe’s Marange diamond mining fields are being governed by a predatory Zanu – PF elite using its access to state power to enrich itself, against the interests of the people as a whole, acting in ...

Zimbabwe worries about RENAMO war threats

December 21, 2012 no comments

Physically, the boundaries are glaring, though justification for their exact placements is less so.  Socio-cultural distinctions between the people are even more blurred, where they exist. Along the ...

Mutambara’s devilish fight for political survival

December 19, 2012 no comments

Zimbabwe’s government has been operating with the precision and predictability of a hunting escapade of a three-headed-monster – each of the two heads with a mind of its own and the third with a seve...

Zimbabwe panics over Mugabe fight back vow

December 19, 2012 1 comment

President Robert Mugabe’s call for his party to fight back for electoral victory like a wounded beast at the end of his Zanu – PF party’s national congress has triggered panic across the nation, reop...

Zimbabweans stealing from prisoners

December 10, 2012 no comments

There is a shaming paradox to Zimbabwean criminality. Music piracy is exposing an ugly caricature of the country’s justice system as a hot gospel musical production by inmates in Manicaland is grossi...

Zimbabwe’s apostolic sect – a curse to women

December 10, 2012 no comments

Entering Noah Taguta’s homestead, Johanne Marange Apostolic Church’s High Priest, there is neither telling how many wives he has or who among the female folk you will meet is his wife, daughter or gr...

Zimbabwe’s government revise economic growth target downwards to 4.7% ...

November 19, 2012 no comments

Harare, 16 November 2012– Zimbabwe’s coalition government has revised downwards its economic growth target for 2012 to 4.7 percent from an initial target of 7.8 percent largely due to the poor perfor...

Zimbabwe lagging behind in the country-level implementation of the Fin...

October 24, 2012 no comments

Zimbabwe is ranked a distant 14 out of 15 South African Development Community (SADC) nations and is one of the countries seriously lagging behind in the country-level implementation of the Finance an...