Tag: Zimbabwe
Robert Mugabe, 90, falls down the stairs
Zimbabwe’s 90-year-old President Robert Mugabe fell down a staircase on Wednesday as he walked off a podium after addressing supporters…
Mnangagwa in charge of Zimbabwe as Mugabe goes on leave
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has left newly-installed Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa in charge as he began his annual holiday, state…
Mugabe appoints Mnangagwa as new Zimbabwe VP
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday named hardliner Emmerson Mnangagwa as his vice president, putting the former justice minister in…
Zimbabwe VP hits back after Mugabe attacks
Zimbabwe’s Vice President Joice Mujuru on Tuesday decried “a well-orchestrated smear campaign and gross abuse of state apparatus” that led…
Zimbabwe arrests war veterans leader
Zimbabwe police have arrested a former war veterans leader on charges of undermining the authority of long ruling President Robert…
Mugabe’s Wife Plans To Take Over Power
Zimbabwe leader, Robert Mugabe’s wife, Grace, is about to be the world’s first female dictator as she plots to take…
Zimbabweans plan demonstration against Mugabe regime
Zimbabwe’s opposition party Saturday announced a plan for “peaceful and constitutional demonstrations” to press long-ruling President Robert Mugabe to accept…
Mugabe warns of action against ‘front men’ for foreign firms
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe opened parliament Tuesday with a warning that locals who front for foreign firms trying to dodge…
Zimbabwe signs $1.5bn power deal with China
Energy-starved Zimbabwe signed a $1.5 billion (1.2-billion-euro) deal with China’s Sinohydro on Friday for a project to boost power generation…
Cash-strapped Zimbabwe to tax mobile phones
Zimbabwe’s finance minister on Thursday announced a raft of tax hikes, including on mobile phones, in a bid to boost…
Team Nigeria Face Zimbabwe Test In Davis Cup
Damilare Okunola Nigeria’s team to this year’s World Team Cup in Africa’s Zone III, will today take on their Zimbabwean…
Zimbabwe politicians warned against attacking Mugabe’s wife
President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party on Thursday warned party members against bad-mouthing the veteran leader’s wife, following her shock entry…
Zimbabwe police beat, detain opposition protesters
Zimbabwe riot police detained a dozen opposition protesters and beat up others at a demonstration on Wednesday over high unemployment,…
S.Africa says 250,000 Zimbabweans can stay, for now
South Africa on Tuesday said around 250,000 Zimbabweans living in the country on temporary visas due to expire this year…
No Mugabe, Zimbabawe more corrupt than Nigeria, says Campbell
Ambassador John Campbell, a great critic of Nigeria’s government has waded into the diplomatic spat between Nigeria and Zimbabwe, over…