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Zimbabwe missing out on mega EU loans - loans have to be paid back
Zimbabwe is missing out on crucial loans from Europe's largest financial institutions, including the European Investment Bank (EIB), due to its unsustainable debt burden, the European Union's ambassad...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:16hrs | 53 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Defence Industries removed from EU sanctions
THE European Union Council has removed the Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI) from its restrictive measures imposed in 2002, but maintained its embargo on arms and equipment that could be utilised for ...Published: 20 Feb 2025 at 18:55hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pursues legal action over confiscated fire tenders in Lithuania
The Zimbabwean government is actively exploring all legal avenues, including international arbitration, to recover 17 fire tenders that were seized by Lithuania last year while being shipped from Bela...Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:25hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
SAP in hot water over dodgy deal with Zimbabwe
Multinational software giant SAP is in hot water over allegations that it used code names and set up a shelf company in Botswana to circumvent European Union (EU) sanctions imposed on the Zimbabwean g...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 11:04hrs | 35 | 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
Zimbabwe sanctions similar to genocide
Political analysts have described the illegal sanctions as akin to a soft genocide and have refuted claims by the United States of America that the embargoes were targeted on few individuals.P...Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 07:21hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bornfrees4ED calls for the removal of sanctions
BORNFREES4ED, a newly-formed Zanu-PF affiliate whose membership is drawn from young people born after 1980, has joined the fray in calling for the unconditional removal of illegal sanctions imposed on...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 19:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions make Russian debt default a non-event
Russia is on the brink of its first debt default since 1998 as the Sunday deadline to make a $100m interest payment seems certain to be missed.Russia has the money and is willing to pay, but s...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 09:26hrs | 2 | by BBC
Chamisa's CCC moots paramilitary group with foreign help
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is contemplating setting up a paramilitary wing within its party's ranks ahead of the 2023 harmonised general elections in the name of "defending the...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Conflicted EU red-flags govt on abductions
THE European Union (EU) has urged Zimbabwe to earnestly look into the issue of enforced disappearances and bring the culprits to book.Speaking to NewsDay after the fourth EU-Zimbabwe Dia...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Nothing new about CCC's same old characters
When CCC won in the majority of constituencies in by-elections held in March, its leaders ran with a line that they had done well, yet they were a new party on the scene.Yet the claim that CCC...Published: 28 May 2022 at 08:50hrs | 3 | by Lovemore Chikova
US sanctions on Zimbabwe serving no purpose
THE United States and European Union have extended sanctions against Zimbabwe by another year amid calls by various stakeholders for a relook at the embargo, which analysts say is no longer serving it...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 19:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa makes headway in re-engagement crusade
THE removal of three Zimbabweans from the European Union (EU) sanctions signals the positive strides that the country has made under President Mnangagwa's reengagement policy.Commenting on the...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's farm invaded
PART of former president Robert Mugabe's Highfield Farm in Norton has been invaded by suspected Zanu-PF supporters as the onslaught against the former first family by his successor, President Emmerson...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 20:41hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gets Western funding despite sanctions outcry
ZIMBABWE has so far received US$647.6 million in development assistance from Western countries in the period from January to September 2021 despite claims by the government that it is barred from rece...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 16:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions cost Zimbabwe over US$42 billion in revenue
Allow me to welcome you to this unique and inaugural Sadc wide anti-sanctions Indaba which is being held under the theme "Zimbabwe a friend to all and an enemy to none". This statement is premised on ...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 06:57hrs | 2 | by Dr Simbarashe Mumbengegwi
Unpacking ZIDERA, atrocities of sanctions
It is without doubt that sanctions are a crime against humanity, an unfair treatment of race against race, nation against nation, the strong against the presumably weak, all with the intention to crea...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:38hrs | 11 | by Takasununguka Ziki
Sanctions: Politics of sabotage in 'Jambanja'
The opening chapter of Eric Harrison's memoir, "Jambanja" (2006) is telling in that it places Zimbabwe in the context of the many sanctions the country had been exposed to, either by the United Nation...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:29hrs | 12 | by Elliot Ziwira
Sanctions hurting ordinary Zimbabweans
Zimbabwe has been on the receiving end of sanctions since 1966, either by the United Nations, United States, the European Union or both, thus qualifying the country for candidacy in the "sanctions ind...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt dithers over radar acquisition
THE scandal-riddled process to acquire a modern air traffic control system, commonly known as the radar, has taken yet another twist after it emerged this week the Office of the President and Cabinet ...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe appeals for sanctions removal
ZIMBABWE yesterday appealed to the European Union (EU) to remove sanctions, which it says have continued to hinder development and caused the economic meltdown.This came out during the EU-Zimb...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions: The unfair comparison between Zimbabwe and Rhodesia
MANY Zimbabweans often bring up the comparison between Rhodesian and Zimbabwean sanctions to drive the narrative that Rhodesia had more stringent sanctions that they managed better than Zimbabwe is ma...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:35hrs | 6 | by Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare
Polad engages US on sanctions
POLITICAL players under the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) platform have submitted a detailed report to the United State's House of Foreign Affairs Committee covering the devastating effects of the...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Were MDC human rights violated in 2008?
MDC was created by the CFU (Commercial Farmers Union), capitalists and the west, so that they take power from Zanu-PF, reverse land reform and indigenization; pull the Zimbabwe National Army out of Co...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 18:23hrs | 2 | by Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare
China flexes its muscle, slaps sanctions on EU officials
China yesterday said it had decided to impose sanctions on 10 European Union citizens, including politicians, for "gross interference" in its internal affairs, and for "flagrantly violating internatio...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 06:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Renewed EU sanctions dent Zimbabwe's re-engagement drive
THE decision by the European Union (EU) last week to maintain sanctions on Zimbabwe drives yet another dagger in the heart of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's reengagement drive, amid fresh allegations ...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
EU renews sanctions against Zimbabwe - These measures do not affect the people of Zimbabwe?
THE European Union (EU) has renewed sanctions against the Zanu PF led government while maintaining a targeted asset freeze on the Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI).The Western bloc announced t...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:33hrs | 4 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF stuck in a cycle of old habits
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa was installed as President of Zimbabwe in November 2017 following a military coup and his predecessor Robert Mugabe's enforced resignation, he boldly announced to the...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:18hrs | 2 | by Tendai Dumbutshena
Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga a hero in the making
The Police Commissioner General Mr GodwinMatanga is a gentle giant but brutally effective. The United Kingdom of Britain imposed sanctions on three security chiefs plus a minister of state sec...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 09:38hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Is UK impeding Zimbabwe's democratisation?
WHERE persuasion does not work, the big powers continue turning to sanctions.The imposition of sanctions against perceived powerful individuals in "undemocratic regimes" like Zimbabwe has been...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
The new Minister of Foreign Affairs in Zimbabwe puts sanctions in disarray
The United Kingdom of Britain imposed sanctions on three security chiefs plus a minister of state security. If the president of Zimbabwe appoints cde Isaac Moyo who is currently the Director. General ...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 14:16hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC Alliance activists' arrests 'ploy for sanctions renewal'?
Recent allegations of targeted arrests and human rights abuses in the country have been described as a ploy by opposition linked political activists to influence the outcome of a sanctions review proc...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 21:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces new sanctions from colonial master UK
THE United Kingdom has threatened to slap President Emmerson Mnangagwa with a new sanctions regime over the deteriorating human rights situation in the country and failure by the administration to dea...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
US claims that sanctions don't affect Zimbabwe economy
THE United States of America (US), the United Kingdom and the European Union (EU) remain adamant that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has not done enough to have sanctions imposed on the...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 14:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Citizens are collateral damage in sanctions matrix
SEVENTY TWO-year-old Sihle Jani* wriggles and whimpers in pain in a dim-lit kitchen hut where a cloud of smoke belches out in no particular order through the grass thatch giving evidence of life at a ...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:29hrs | | by Vincent Gono
Overfed, unconcerned and arrogant - Zimbabwe's politicians have broken away from the people
Saying all kinds of niceties and delivering nothing. These seem to be the most notable, if not the best traits of a politician. Particularly the Zimbabwean politician. It is not because they lack the ...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 21:03hrs | 1 | by Mandla Tshuma
Britain to impose new sanctions on Zimbabwe after Brexit
Britain is ready to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe when it leaves the European Union.In readiness for its exit from the EU, which now appears to have been pushed back until October, Britain has ...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 17:16hrs | 6 | by ZimLive
Sanctions the ultimate disaster
On Wednesday March 20, The Washington Post published an article written by Tatenda Chitagu, Paul Schemm and Siobhan O. Grady entitled; "It was too late . . . Hundreds are dead as rescue efforts stall ...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 23:34hrs | 2 | by Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye
RTGS Dollar ≠ Crypto-currency
On Friday 22 February 2019, our analyst; Batanai Matsika had an interesting interview with South Africa's Business Day TV (DSTV Channel 412). The conversation focused on the recently announced...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:53hrs | 2 | by Batanai Matsika
EU's clean break for Mnangagwa
There is little justice and respect for basic human rights in Zimbabwe, still the European Union (EU) softened its sanctions regime.In February, after egregious human rights abuses escalated b...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:21hrs | | by Pearl Matibe
Mnangagwa must continue travelling
When the US-EU imperialist media and propaganda apparatus looks back at this era, their expert historians, writers, and political pundits, will be forced to admit traditional white supremacist arrogan...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:07hrs | | by Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye
EU lifted sanctions to join in looting of diamonds - not fooled by elephant dung smelling hyena
When the EU Foreign Ministers decided NOT to impose new and tougher sanctions on the Mnangagwa regime for failing to hold free, fair and credible elections last July and for using excessive violence ...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 17:10hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa's sincerity sways EU
There has been a lot of debate around President Mnangagwa's honesty with regards to his promise to respect the rights of citizens, end Zimbabwe's international isolation and achieve a middle income st...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 10:01hrs | | by Mapozho Saruchera
Mnangagwa gets fresh chance from EU
In a rare piece of good news for President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his under pressure administration, he has been given a stay of execution by the European Union (EU), whose Parliament had proposed tou...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 12:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe junta escapes EU sanctions noose
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his top lieutenants in the military have been left out of the European Union (EU)'s latest sanctions list despite widespread calls for their censure over the army's re...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 10:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Government does not own Zimpapers'
Former Minister of Information Professor Jonathan Moyo says government does not have any shareholding in the Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers) a company that publishes The Herald, The Chronicle, Sunday ...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 13:15hrs | 13 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'EU sanctions will spur Zimbabweans to bust sanctions' - nonsense just what we need
"Zimbabweans should not be distracted from their focus on turning around the economy by the country's enemies threatening to effect and strengthen illegal sanctions on the country," wrote the Chronicl...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 06:49hrs | 14 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa escapes fresh EU sanctions
Zimbabwe's leaders escaped fresh sanctions by the European Union on Monday despite growing repression.The EU Parliament last week called for individual sanctions to be widened against top gove...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 23:38hrs | 4 | by ZimLive
Chihuri and Bonyongwe removed from sanctions list
The European Union has announced that it has removed former Police Chief Augustine Chihuri and former Spy Boss Happyton Bonyongwe from the sanctions list.EU said the two are no longer in gover...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 17:53hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's govt unfazed by EU sanctions threat
Government yesterday said it was not worried by the threat from the European Union (EU) Parliament to tighten sanctions against the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led administration, insisting that they...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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