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UN General Assembly to debate sanctions on Zimbabwe
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is set to formally debate the impact of illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the United States, following the submission of two critical reports by the U...Published: 24 Nov 2024 at 09:58hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe calls for unconditional removal of sanctions at UN Conference
Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Ziyambi Ziyambi, is leading a Zimbabwean delegation at a high-level United Nations conference to advocate for the removal of sanctions imposed on ...Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 06:16hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
China opposes coercive measures against developing countries
China on Tuesday represented 28 Global South countries and delivered a joint statement at the United Nations opposing unilateral coercive measures and urging countries imposing them to "immediately an...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 15:52hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter
The sanctions lie: How Zimbabwe's ruling elite is misleading the nation
As Zimbabwe moves towards the so-called "SADC Anti-Sanctions Day" on the 25th of October, the need arises again to unpack the shameful lies spread by the ruling establishment about these measures....Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 16:57hrs | 536 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Unilateral sanctions are not illegal!
IT was so laughable listening to Information minister Jenfan Muswere fuming over US targeted sanctions on some Zimbabweans.I could easily tell that he was trying his best to please his boss, P...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 05:14hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The US should show us some respect
PALESTINIANS who live in Gaza, which has now been literally turned into a hellscape by the Israeli military's firepower, are experiencing untold suffering.While the media in the West calls it ...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions have cost Zimbabwe US$150 billion
In the past 22 years, Zimbabwe has incurred a loss of over US$150 billion in potential revenue, opportunities, donor support, and loans due to the illegal sanctions imposed by the United States of Ame...Published: 26 Oct 2023 at 06:31hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
EU, US sanctions hit Zimbabwe's agric sector hard
Since the final stage of the Cold War, the use of sanctions as a "soft approach" in international diplomacy gained pre-eminence among states that seek to influence the perception and behaviour of othe...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 06:19hrs | 3 | by Livingstone Kazizi
United Zimbabwe Alliance presidential candidate calls for lifting of sanctions
United Zimbabwe Alliance (UZA) leader Ms Elizabeth Valerio, who has declared that she will be running for the presidency, has said illegal sanctions imposed on the country by western countries are hur...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean anti-sanctions group seeks reparations from U.S.
The Broad Alliance Against Sanctions (BAAS), Zimbabwe's anti-sanctions lobby group, on Monday, filed a court application at the High Court in the national capital of Harare, seeking reparations from t...Published: 30 May 2023 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mangwana under fire
INFORMATION and Broadcasting Services secretary Ndavaningi ‘Nick' Mangwana has attracted brickbats after indirectly defending alleged gold smuggling exposed in Al Jeezera's documentary Gold Mafia: T...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sadc dismisses targeted sanctions claim
SADC chairperson and President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, has reiterated calls for the removal of illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by some Western countries saying the...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sanctions increase cost of doing business in Zimbabwe
ILLEGAL sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West hamper the free movement of funds across international borders, and therefore can raise the cost of doing business, or at least make investors worry a...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 06:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa finally proves 'sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe' a big fat lie!
I have always asserted to my friends that, as much as state media is an insufferable drag to read or watch - due to the pathetic and disgraceful substandard work - but, most of the Zimbabwe regime's l...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 09:31hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Are African leaders incredibly daft or deliberately pretending unaware why Zimbabweans are truly suffering?
The past week has been eventful as far as calls for 'sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe should be removed', by various, mostly southern African leaders.Firstly, it was the South African President C...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF grateful to SA
Zanu-PF has praised South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for taking the issue of illegal sanctions imposed against Zimbabwe directly to White House when he told the United States President Joe Bide...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Alena Douhan's assertions on Zimbabwe sanctions' social impact gravely flawed, laughable and unscientific
The generalization of matters greatly impacting our day-to-day lives has unfortunately become a most troubling common occurrence.What is even worse is that, these are largely based on hypothes...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 18:49hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe sanctions effects laid bare at UN
A DOSSIER detailing in graphic detail the horrendous effects of unilateral sanctions that were imposed on Zimbabwe by Western countries at the turn of the millennium has been submitted to the United N...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt justifies clampdown on 'regime change' NGOs
GOVERNMENT has justified its decision to clamp down on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) at the ongoing United Nations Human Rights Council meeting, alleging that the organisations were plotting t...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Two-decade-old U.S. sanctions leave Zimbabweans suffering, triggering protests
Opposite the U.S. embassy northwest of the Zimbabwean capital of Harare sits an anti-sanctions camp marking 1,200 days of protest.On July 4, the organizer of the camp — Broad Alliance Agains...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 19:50hrs | 11 | by Tichaona Chifamba, Zhang Yuliang, Cao Kai
Lift sanctions on Zimbabwe, says AU
African Union chairperson and Senegalese President Macky Sall has added his voice in calling for the lifting of illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by Western capitals more than 20 years ago, saying...Published: 30 May 2022 at 06:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns 'meddling' diplomats
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday read the riot act against foreign diplomats, accusing them of meddling in the country's internal affairs and fuelling political tension ahead of next year's gene...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
20 years of ruinous sanctions
The unilateral sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West in the last 20 years have, among others, adversely affected the country's ability to boost its manufacturing sector, build health and education...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:21hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
I have never come across anyone who blames sanctions for our suffering - outside political rhetoric
The debate over the real cause of the seemingly unending untold suffering and unimaginable poverty that ordinary Zimbabweans have painfully (but, most worryingly with the patience of the pope) endured...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 22:24hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's upper-middle income economy plans in disarray
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said his administration will be able to push to fulfil its long-term plan of transforming Zimbabwe into an upper-middle income economy in line with Vision 2030 if the illegal e...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:26hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance's fake victimhood, internal ructions and sanctions
Over the years, the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction has perfected the art of creating stunts to attract the West's attention in the vain and ill-placed hope of besmirching President Mnangagwa and to wrin...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:21hrs | 14 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa's govt, Chamisa's MDC in fresh abduction war
GOVERNMENT and the MDC Alliance are embroiled in a fresh abduction war as Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe yesterday accused the opposition of making fake claims that its party vice-president Ten...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police, MDC dismiss Biti abduction claims
Both the police and the MDC-Alliance have dismissed social media reports that MDC-A vice president Mr Tendai Biti was abducted at his Harare home on Monday.Social media stories had indicated M...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:20hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
COP26 delegation exposes Mnangagwa rhetoric, says Felix Ndiweni
OUTSPOKEN former Ntabazinduna chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa's United Kingdom trip for the COP26 summit last week as extravagant after he reportedly to...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:28hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt turns to UN over gem ban
ZIMBABWE'S ruling Zanu-PF and 16 fringe opposition parties under the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) have requested the United Nations (UN) to help it resume international trade in diamonds, the Zim...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 08:07hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe will reduce CO2 emission by 40% in 9 years' - it's rich, failed to deliver free elections in 41 years
It is great to be a dictator; you can say whatever you like, make all manner of promises knowing fully well you will never ever be held to democratic account for it!"Zimbabwe has set an ambiti...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:23hrs | 3 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe's Commonwealth rejoining process underway
The Commonwealth is ready to welcome Zimbabwe back into the group once processes for rejoining, which are underway, are complete, the organisation's secretary general, Baroness Patricia Scotland, has ...Published: 03 Nov 2021 at 05:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
More anti-sanctions marches staged in UK
Zimbabweans based in the United Kingdom have been staging marches in solidarity with President Mnangagwa, and demanding the unconditional removal of illegal sanctions imposed on the country by the Wes...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says, 'We have already won'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared a Zanu-PF victory two years ahead of the general elections, telling party supporters at the just-ended annual conference in Bindura that his party will elbow ...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 07:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Engage political reforms and abandon sanctions rhetoric' UN rebuke Mnangagwa - no time for diplomatic niceties
Zanu PF invited the UN Special rapporteur to investigate the negative impact of sanctions on the ordinary people. The regime hoped the rapporteur would confirm its claim that sanctions were the root c...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 00:29hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Never imagined Zimbabwe ruling elite would be so euphoric about visiting former colonial master!
Indeed, it was a bit of a shocker, but most certainly not particularly surprising at all.I have always maintained that the hatred, by the Zimbabwe ruling elite, of the main opposition MDC - ev...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 00:23hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe not obliged to please the West
Zimbabwe is not obliged to satisfy the requirements imposed by the United States and other countries as conditions set to remove sanctions because the sanctions were illegal from the beginning, visiti...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
EU maintains stance on Zimbabwe isolation
THE European Union (EU) this week dismissed government claims that the two decades-long restrictive measures imposed on individuals and state firms had triggered an economic meltdown, which has seen m...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:29hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
US govt dismisses UN call for removal of sanctions in Zimbabwe
THE United States (US) representative to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield has dismissed United Nations (UN) special rapporteur Alena Douhan's report blaming "targeted sanctions" against Zimb...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:22hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance 'Empty Heads' - Analysts
The MDC Alliance's rant over preliminary findings presented by the UN Rapporteur has been described by experts as the highest level of political naivety meant to justify the party's sanctions crusade....Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:25hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa's MDC petitions UN over ‘biased' report
THE main opposition MDC Alliance has accused United Nations special rapporteur Alena Douhan of acting unprofessionally during her 10-day fact-finding mission to Harare to investigate the impact of san...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:04hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rubbishes UN envoy report
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance has rubbished United Nations special rapporteur Alena Douhan's report on the outcome of her findings on the impact of Western sanctions on Zimbabwe, describing it a...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:03hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC, Zanu-PF in violent clashes
VIOLENT clashes, pitting Zanu-PF and MDC Alliance activists, left scores of people injured after ruling party supporters attempted to block opposition leader Nelson Chamisa from meeting villagers in Z...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:02hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
UN envoy suggests that United States lift sanctions against Zimbabwe
A United Nations special envoy on Thursday urged the United States to end sanctions that she says have worsened Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis, while urging dialogue to end the impasse between the two...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:00hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF contradicts itself on violence
ZANU PF continues to issue contradicting statements on the violence meted by its alleged supporters to opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa.Chamisa has claimed that ruling party membe...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 14:15hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Sanctions hurting ordinary Zimbabweans - UN envoy
The two-decade-old sanctions imposed by the the US, UK and European Union bloc are weighing heavily on vulnerable groups, especially women, children and the disabled, according to preliminary findings...Published: 28 Oct 2021 at 08:59hrs | 13 | by Staff Reporter
UN Special Rapporteur condemns illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe, urges dialogue
THE United Nations Special Rapporteur on unilateral and coersive measures, Alena Douhan has called for the lifting of unilateral sanctions against Zimbabwe and urged sanctioning states and key nationa...Published: 27 Oct 2021 at 20:03hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
US, UK tell Mnangagwa to introspect on sanctions
THE United States (US) and Britain yesterday accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of hiding behind a finger by blaming sanctions for his misrule and rising corruption, economic mismanagement, failure ...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe sanctions not targeted at individuals'
Illegal sanctions imposed on the country by the West must go as they are targeted at collapsing key pillars of the national economy but Zimbabwe will use its resources to fend them off and foster grow...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
There's more evidence of rampant corruption in Zimbabwe than imagined economic sanctions!
As the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan winds up her much talked about visit, I wonder what real incontrovertible evidence she has managed to garner, on how exactly the so-called 'e...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 15:28hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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