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EU Warns Zimbabwe

The European Union (EU) has issued a stark warning to Zimbabwe, urging the government to implement urgent reforms to strengthen the rule of law, combat corruption, and ensure policy predictability. Without such changes, the EU cautioned, Z…

Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 12:31hrs | 1071 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt brokers EU power deals as blackouts unsettle economy

The Zimbabwean government is actively facilitating partnerships between local independent power producers (IPPs) and European Union (EU) investors to secure much-needed funding for critical energy projects, amid a worsening power crisis th…

Published: 30 May 2025 at 12:16hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe misses â‚¬150 billion conditional funding from EU

Europe and Africa's strategic partnership has entered an exciting new phase, with both continents reaffirming their commitment to deepen economic cooperation and promote global peace. However, Zimbabwe continues to miss out on the benefits…

Published: 30 May 2025 at 12:14hrs | | by Staff reporter

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 ambassador to Zimbabwe, Jobst von Kirchmann, ha…

Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:16hrs | 53 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe excluded from â‚¬500 million EU aid package

Zimbabwe has been excluded from a new â‚¬500 million aid package from the European Union (EU) to Africa, following the recent enactment of the controversial Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) Amendment Act by President Emmerson Mnangagwa…

Published: 22 May 2025 at 11:28hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter

17 tonnes of T-shirts land Zimra officials, NGO director in court

Two Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials, along with five other individuals, have been arrested and brought before the Harare Magistrates' Courts following allegations of smuggling 17 tonnes of T-shirts into the country to evade im…

Published: 13 May 2025 at 10:25hrs | 5842 | 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 internal repression, underscoring its c…

Published: 20 Feb 2025 at 18:55hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF blasts EU for extending sanctions on Zimbabwe

Zanu-PF has jumped to the defence of Zimbabwe's security sector in its latest rant after the European Union's (EU) extension of sanctions targeted on Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI).Sanctions on ZDI were extended by a year to February 20…

Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter

Europe extends Zimbabwe sanctions

THE European Union (EU) has renewed its restrictions on Zimbabwe dealing a major blow to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his administration's re-engagement bid.According to a statement issued by the council of the EU, sanctions on the cou…

Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 04:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Sengezo Tshabangu and his handlers have lost the plot big time

ZIMBABWE'S political history has been littered with opposition malcontents for a very long time, which has caused the weakening and splitting of the main opposition political party in the country.The Movement for Democratic Change, which w…

Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:31hrs | | by Leonard Koni

Zanu-PF abusers called out in EU report

Zanu-PF supporters were some of the most hostile people on social media as they published false information while threatening government critics and opposition activists during the election period, the European Union (EU) has said.Accordin…

Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter

How the EU captured Sadc observer Mission

THE SADC Election Observer Mission (SEOM) and the opposition CCC were pawns in the European Union (EU) grand scheme to effect regime change in Zimbabwe with the August 23/24 harmonised elections the theatre in which the Western world sough…

Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Fungi Kwaramba

It's wrong for ZEC to accept foreign funding

The EU's notification of its suspension of support for the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission [ZEC] is an unacceptable use of donor funds to seek to influence and control an independent Chapter 12 constitutional body, and it is the clearest ugl…

Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 21:17hrs | 14 | by Jonathan Moyo

EU-EOM observer team in Zimbabwe in bribery storm?

THE European Union Election Observer Mission (EU-EOM) is doling whiskeys, grocery vouchers, fuel coupons and other handouts to select journalists across the country as part of a clandestine operation to build a negative report on next week…

Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:51hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Mthwakai courts EU on self-rule

MTHWAKAZI Republic Party (MRP) has implored the European Union Observer Mission to the August 23 general elections to help the party re-establish a Mthwakazi State, separate from Zimbabwe.The party's president Mqondisi Moyo directed part o…

Published: 15 Aug 2023 at 06:40hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Colonialists abandon confrontation with Zimbabwe

CHARMED by President Mnangagwa's open door policy and far reaching economic reforms, more investors will be coming from the European Union (EU) which is prepared to extend loans to the private sector as relations between the 27-member bloc…

Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 05:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

'AU, EU must intervene on Zimbabwe crisis'

PEOPLE's Progressive Party Zimbabwe (PPPZ) president Timothy Chiguvare says the country needs mediators to address the question on electoral reforms."We need mediators such as the African Union or at most the Euroepan Union or the United N…

Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 18:24hrs | | by Staff reporter

Which African countries stand to benefit from AU-EU Summit?

AFRICA has a huge opportunity: The EU's new strategy for critical raw materials calls for diversification in supply chains, potentially opening up a big market for Africa's lithium, graphite, cobalt, nickel and rare earth elements, not to …

Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:10hrs | 14 | by Conrad Onyango

Why HH has been invited to the White house by Biden

President Hakainde Hichilema has been invited for a meeting with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House while in the US attending the United Nations General Assembly. This is rather unprecedented for a newl…

Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Mwansa P. Chalwe snr

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 of human rights abuses against Harare.T…

Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter

'Keep your EU Brexit and I will keep my Zimbabwe'

HISTORY has a tendency to repeat itself, but in Zimbabwe, the frequency is just phenomenal. The country has twice in a decade suffered hyperinflation as a result of bad governance.For the second time in 20 years, Zimbabwe has lifted the mi…

Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 3 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu

Abduction dents EU - Zimbabwe talks

SUSPECTED security agents allegedly abducted and tortured Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) leader Obert Masaraure for leading a teachers' strike, dealing a blow to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's bid to re-engage with th…

Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 19:57hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe - EU dialogue resumes

Zimbabwe and the European Union are set to resume dialogue this month as part of re-engagement efforts the new dispensation led by President Mnangagwa is undertaking, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Sibusiso Moyo has said.…

Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 23:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

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 beginning on January 14, the European Parliament…

Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Pearl Matibe

Sadc, EU positions on Zimbabwe: Attempting an end of history

Last week, there were two very important statements issued on Zimbabwe by two very important inter-State political bodies. The first of these statements and closer to home was issued by the Southern African Development Community(Sadc) chai…

Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Takura Zhangazha

Mthuli Ncube sells Zimbabwe reforms to EU

GOVERNMENT has developed a comprehensive plan to revive the economy, which will involve painful measures like a bitter pill administered to a patient, Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has said. He made the r…

Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Staf reporter

Zanu-PF dictatorship, ideological dominance

The European Union Observer Mission's (EU OM) final report showed the ruling Zanu-PF dominance in the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe was achieved, not by popular vote, but a cocktail of manipulation.While the reaction by the ruling class and i…

Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 12:24hrs | | by Vivid Gwede

EU poll observer report: Public camaraderie with Chamisa

While Zimbabweans had largely moved on with life after the July 30  harmonised elections, the European Union (EU) has sought to drag the country back into election mode through the release of its Zimbabwe Elections Observer Mission re…

Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 06:51hrs | 3 | by Bevan Musoko

UK forces Mnangagwa, Chamisa into talks

FORMER colonial master Britain is actively pushing for opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to recognise President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy and for the Zanu-PF leader to reach out to his adversary.However, although reports …

Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:01hrs | | by Staff reporter

EU statement on Zimbabwe's 2018 elections

The European Union Delegation, the Heads of Mission of EU Member States present in Harare and the Head of Mission of Switzerland issue the following statement in Zimbabwe: The Heads of Mission of the EU and Switzerland reaffirm their commi…

Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 14:41hrs | | by EU

EU grows confidence in Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwean Government has managed to put the country back on track through reengagement with the international community after a long standoff period during the former president Robert Mugabe's era. The efforts to reengage the internat…

Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 15:22hrs | 1 | by Derick Tsimba

Britain, EU divided over Zimbabwe funding

SHARP differences have emerged between Britain and its counterparts in the European Union over the funding and support to be given to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration ahead of the make-or-break general elections this year.Brit…

Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 11:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Is the UK referendum result to leave EU legally binding?

The question in most people's minds is whether the referendum result "to leave" is legally binding on the United Kingdom. One fundamental truth is that the United Kingdom parliament is sovereign and the leader of the country, in this insta…

Published: 27 Jun 2016 at 06:34hrs | | by Lloyd Msipa

What Brexit means for Africa, Zimbabwe

"Fog in the channel - continent cut off." The Brookings Institution reminded us of this famous though apocryphal British headline in an analysis of Brexit this week. For Brookings, the headline epitomises the insularity - not to say solips…

Published: 24 Jun 2016 at 06:50hrs | | by Peter Fabricius

EU flip flops on Zimbabwe

Phillipe Van Damme, the European Union ambassador to Zimbabwe, is probably less well known to Zimbabweans than that other Van Damme - Jean Claude. But what we know about the later is that if he says that he as going to clobber you, he will…

Published: 09 May 2015 at 20:44hrs | | by Makusha Mugabe

EU removes 5 dead Zimbabwean politicians from sanctions list

ZANU-PF yesterday blasted as nonsensical the move by the European Union (EU) to remove five deceased politicians and heads of government departments from its sanctions list while maintaining the sanctions on the First Family.In an EU journ…

Published: 21 Feb 2015 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter

Open Letter from the diaspora to the EU HoM to Zimbabwe

H.E. Mr Philippe Van DammeYour Excellency,  I refer to the story "US$270M Development Assistance Fund,"  The Zimbabwean, 16/02/15.May I crave your indulgence with two humble requests as a member of the Zimbabwean Diaspora.Given t…

Published: 16 Feb 2015 at 18:52hrs | 2 | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri

Both the EU and the USA should lift sanctions unreservedly

The French business delegation that was in the country recently came as a relief to the Zimbabwean people who have been struggling to survive under the illegal sanctions that were imposed by both the European Union (EU) and the United Stat…

Published: 05 Feb 2015 at 15:11hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani

Does the EU still have a foreign policy on Zimbabwe?

The fallout from statements by EU's Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Aldo Dell'Ariccia suggesting there is no leadership crisis in Zimbabwe and criticising civil society for being allegedly "anchored in the past" raises questions whether the EU s…

Published: 08 Jul 2014 at 13:26hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri

The USA and the EU full of crocodile tears

The July 31, 2013 harmonized elections came with ZANU PF condemning to the political dustbin the western-sponsored MDC-T party as the revolutionary party clearly got more than two thirds in parliament, giving it the mandate to rule for the…

Published: 18 Feb 2014 at 09:00hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani

ZUNDE's plea to the EU - Open Letter

Dear European Union Leaders & members of the Diplomatic Corp,Ref: Zimbabwe's re-engagement delegation to EU - ZUNDE's positionZimbabweans United for Democracy (ZUNDE), a global movement that emerged after the ominous July 31st election…

Published: 12 Jan 2014 at 23:18hrs | 2 | by Information & Publicity - ZUNDE

Easing restrictions before reforms would mean EU has lost the plot

The European Union (EU) would have lost the plot completely, if it eases travel restrictions on Robert Mugabe and his allies with no credible reforms in place before polls.Reports that the EU is eager to re-engage the 88 year-old Robert Mu…

Published: 01 Feb 2013 at 16:05hrs | | by Cliffford Chitupa Mashiri

What progress has EU's Catherine Ashton 'seen' in Zimbabwe

It is mind-boggling that the EU's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton reportedly said she had "seen" progress in Zimbabwe, which some of us have hardly noticed.Amid coup threats, a deadlock on the New Constitution, sickening dithering o…

Published: 14 May 2012 at 10:44hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri

Will the EU remove sanctions on Zimbabwe come February 18

When the European Union meets on February 18 to review the illegal sanctions it imposed on Zimbabwe, will it decide to extend the sanctions by another year, or will it remove them all together?The European Union, it can be argued, will dec…

Published: 12 Feb 2012 at 15:31hrs | 2 | by Dancase B.Gideon

Does EAC need economic pact with EU!

In June last year, the EAC decided wisely to hold off the signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union.Our negotiators chose to continue the negotiations, as the package on the table remained highly problemat…

Published: 24 Jun 2011 at 05:17hrs | 1 | by Benjamin William Mkapa

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