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China to inject fresh funds into Zimbabwe economy?
China will provide fresh funding for new infrastructure projects that are expected to jerk the economy and create new jobs. Reports of prospective funding come in the wake of last week's visit by the ...Published: 6 hrs ago | 121 | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa interrupts his annual leave
Zimbabwe and China have upgraded their bilateral ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba has said.As a result, Charamba said,...Published: 13 Jan 2020 at 15:21hrs | 8847 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe has hit by drought at a time when its economy is in crisis
Zimbabwe is facing its worst humanitarian emergency in more than a decade as a result of drought and a severe economic crisis. The timing has been devasta...Published: 28 Dec 2019 at 20:38hrs | 1493 | by Rangarirai Kudakwashe Chivaviro
FULL TEXT: Mnangagwa's letter to UK Prime Minister
13 December, 2019Dear Prime Minister,On behalf of the Government and people of the Republic of Zimbabwe 1 extend my heartfelt congratulations to you, Right Honourable Prime Minister, o...Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 10:56hrs | 2840 | by Emmerson Mnangagwa
Mnangagwa congratulates UK's Boris Johnson
President Mnangagwa has congratulated Mr Boris Johnson for his election victory that has seen him retain the leadership of the United Kingdom. Prime Minister Johnson yesterday returned t...Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 08:01hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
No easy walk to Commonwealth, UK envoy tells Mnangagwa
BRITAIN has told Harare that it is concerned over the reluctance shown by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to implement genuine reforms.United Kingdom ambassador to Zimbabwe, Melanie ...Published: 10 Dec 2019 at 07:19hrs | 2458 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in denial
The dire situation in Zimbabwe has been getting of a lot of attention in the British media – particularly since the visit to Zimbabwe by a UN representative who warned that Zimbabweans were on the v...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 21:56hrs | 711 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Jonathan Moyo describes Chiwenga's return as bizarre
Vice-President Costantino Chiwenga returned home last week from China where he was receiving treatment. He arrived aboard a Chinese plane and the Chinese deputy ambassador to Zimbabwe, Zhao Baogang, l...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 11:48hrs | 4902 | by Staff reporter
EU not happy with pace of Zimbabwe reforms
European Union (EU) ambassador to Zimbabwe Timo Olkkkonen says Brussels is not happy with the pace of reforms in the country, especially the realignment of laws to the constitution.Olkkonen (T...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:36hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa sends envoy to President Mnangagwa
MDC leader Nelson dispatched Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC) to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa and indicate that he is willing to sit with him and dialogue. This ...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 07:25hrs | 12122 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa will not talk to Chamisa outside POLAD
President Mnangagwa will not participate in any talks outside the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD), a home-grown national framework where all political parties are equal and no outsiders are allowed....Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 04:03hrs | 1827 | by Staff reporter
Talks poser for Chamisa, Mnangagwa
President Mnangagwa will not participate in any talks outside the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD), a home-grown national framework where all political parties are equal and no outsiders are allowed....Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 03:56hrs | 925 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa on diplomatic offensive
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has gone on a diplomatic offensive as part of his re-engagement exercise that has seen his special envoy visiting different countries in Africa and Europe.Mnangagw...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 07:59hrs | 1032 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sends special envoy to Guinea
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday dispatched Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe as an envoy to Conakry, Guinea, where he delivered a special message to President Alpha Condé. ...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:36hrs | 562 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa envisions 7% economic growth
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, presently presiding over an imploding economy, is anticipating an ambitious average national economic growth rate of 7% per annum during his tenure."We shall acce...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 579 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - Mozambique discuss fuel pipeline expansion
Zimbabwe wants to pump more fuel from Beira, Mozambique to Feruka near Mutare and then on to Msasa in Harare. This requires upgrading of the pair of pipelines and how this can be done was the ...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 04:56hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to solve fuel crisis
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday met with a special envoy from Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi Minister of Transport and Communication Mr Carlos Mesquita, to discuss a number of bilateral is...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 15:46hrs | 5081 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe, Mozambique in fuel talks
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa met with a special envoy from Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi to discuss increasing volumes of fuel pumped through the pipeline from Beira to Msasa in Harare.Speaking soo...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 12:33hrs | 1580 | by Staff reporter
UK cranks heat on Mnangagwa
A UNITED Kingdom (UK) special envoy yesterday challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to introduce genuine economic and political reforms in order to turn around its stuttering economy....Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 06:02hrs | 5291 | by Staff reporter
UK presses Mnangagwa over reforms
A UNITED Kingdom (UK) special envoy yesterday challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to introduce genuine economic and political reforms in order to turn around its stuttering economy....Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 05:52hrs | 1314 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, UK relations hit top gear
Britain's top Foreign and Commonwealth Office official dealing with Africa Mrs Harriet Matthews is on a visit to Zimbabwe to assess progress in reform and yesterday delivered a special message from Br...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 05:45hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
UK envoys meet Mnangagwa
Two envoys from the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have paid a courtesy call on President Mnangagwa this morning. The two are Mrs Harriet Matthews the Director for Africa in the Foreign ...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:28hrs | 540 | by Staff reporter
Our MPs are true representatives of the people
The MDC MPs are representatives of the people and during the pre-budget consultation meeting in Victoria Falls, we adequately played the role of true envoys of ordinary Zimbabweans who want key issues...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 12:40hrs | 956 | by Prosper Chapfiwa Mutseyami
US, Zimbabwe rift widens
Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo's threat to expel United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols following a row over sanctions has put the country's efforts to re-engage Washington in jeop...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:56hrs | 6743 | by Staff reporter
Only genuine reforms will bring change to Zimbabwe
Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo's strong rebuke of United States ambassador to Harare Brian Nichols last week was yet another indication that Zimbabwe's re-engagement efforts are not going acco...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:54hrs | 381 | by The Standard - Editorial
Sanctions do hurt the economy
The United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols, was unusually hyperactive last week.The diplomat attempted to counter the government's narrative on the detrimental effects of sanctions...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:49hrs | 231 | by Hopewell Mauwa
Mnangagwa: The tenacity of pan-African moral political-standing
Last week on Thursday after addressing the Second Zanu-PF National Youth League Assembly meeting at the Party's Headquarters in Harare, His Excellency President Emmerson Mnangagwa left for Gaborone, B...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:38hrs | 133 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
'Mnangagwa holds keys to removal of sanctions'
The United States envoy to Zimbabwe Ambassador Brian Nichols has said that only President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration holds the keys to the removal of sanctions if they implement the political...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 13:35hrs | 4939 | by Staff reporter
US Senate backs its ambassador after Zimbabwe attacks
The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on Friday backed the US ambassador to Zimbabwe, a day after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government threatened to expel him for alleged politi...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 21:41hrs | 5049 | by ZimLive
Global capitals back Zimbabwe
The push to remove sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West is gaining traction after the African Union (AU), China, Japan and Sadc diplomats around the world lent their voice for the embargo to be l...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:45hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe receives massive support from Sadc, AU
IT was a day to remember for Zimbabwe yesterday as it received overwhelming support from SADC and African Union (AU) member states, who sent representatives to stand solidly behind Harare as citizens ...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:30hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Western sanctions a lame excuse: US envoy
UNITED States (US) ambassador to Zimbabwe, Brian Nichols, has dismissed government claims that Western sanctions were behind the country's economic meltdown, saying the haemorrhage was being fuelled b...Published: 24 Oct 2019 at 15:12hrs | 2156 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa redeploys envoy Suka-Mafudze to Malawi
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has re-deployed former Zimbabwean Ambassador to Sudan, Hilda Suka-Mafudze to Malawi. In a Government Gazette, Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Misheck...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 07:49hrs | 2580 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to meet investors in Russia
President Mnangagwa will this week attend the Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi, Russia, where he is expected to meet Russian investors from Alrosa and Great Dyke Investments (GDI).The engagements...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:41hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's killer soldiers facing the gun
In a surprise development, a close confidante of President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the long-awaited prosecution of soldiers who killed innocent civilians in August last year will begin next year. ...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 06:52hrs | 7226 | by Staff reporter
China buys Zimbabwe's new capital city of Mt Hampden
Diplomatic and high level government sources at the ministry of lands, agriculture, and rural resettlement this week said Beijing had also struck a deal to provide the more than US$20 billion needed b...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:29hrs | 2604 | by Itai Mushekwe
US top Africa envoy lies about Zimbabwe sanctions
The United States' top diplomat in Africa, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs Tibor P. Nagy, took part in a telephonic post-United Nations General Assembly question and ans...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:22hrs | 565 | by ZimLive
Mphoko demands US$308k pension
FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday filed an application for declarator at the Bulawayo High Court seeking an order declaring the withholding of his pension by the government illegal an...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 07:42hrs | 577 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is Open for incompetence, deceit and corruption
Damning comments on the situation in Zimbabwe by the UN and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expose Mnangagwa's government as incompetent, deceitful and corrupt.A bad week for Zimbabwe be...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 17:04hrs | 990 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mnangagwa sideline Ndebeles as envoys?
President Mnangagwa has appointed Mrs Ruth Masodzi Chikwira and Mr Kufa Chinoza as ambassadors to Canada and Ghana respectively. Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 06:22hrs | 587 | by Staff reporter
UN envoy: Zimbabwe's economic, political situation deteriorating
Zimbabwe's political and economic environment is deteriorating, causing anxiety as hopes fade for a long-awaited improvement in living conditions, a United Nations human rights envoy said on Friday....Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:46hrs | 2145 | by Al JAzeera
Zimbabwe's revival hopes fade under Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe's political and economic environment is deteriorating, causing anxiety as hopes fade for a long-awaited improvement in people's living conditions, a United Nations human rights envoy said on ...Published: 28 Sep 2019 at 19:08hrs | 482 | by Reuters
Xenophobia: South Africa's Aha moment!
I love radio! I have done so since I could listen to my mum's voice while I was in her stomach. Not the loud music. Neither the childishly gurrolous disc jockeys on some frequencies. I...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 06:36hrs | 702 | by Josiah Mucharowana
MLO challenges Mnangagwa to man up and talk about Matabeleland independence at UN Assembly
We hear that jet- setting Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa is already in New York, United States to attend the 74th Ordinary Session of UN General Assembly. We challenge him to man up and use thi...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 08:17hrs | 1089 | by Israel Dube
EU calls on Mnangagwa to open up space for civil society
ZIMBABWE should allow civil society organisations to flourish as part of the country's democratisation agenda, European Union Ambassador to Zimbabwe Timo Olkkonen said Saturday.Olkonnen was sp...Published: 23 Sep 2019 at 06:11hrs | 401 | by newzimbabwe
Magombeyi 'abduction' script clumsy
...stinks of Uncle Sam's scent and his regime change runner boys A fortnight ago, no one knew who Dr Peter Mago...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 10:18hrs | 3676 | by Shongedzai Mugwagwa
Top EU official meets Mugabe coup announcer
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister, Dr Sibusiso Moyo, yesterday met two top European Union (EU) representatives in Harare and the parties expressed increased desire to use the existing F...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 06:47hrs | 1997 | by Staff reporter
Of human rights demands and regime change in ZImbabwe
Chapter 4 of Zimbabwe's Constitution adopted in 2013 outlines various rights which are supposed to be enjoyed by Zimbabwean citizens as they go about their business. A few bad apples among us are busy...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 06:39hrs | 156 | by Elijah Chihota
MDC Alliance behind abductions
The quest for power should never ever replace our humanness and the inherent spirit of Ubuntu that is the hallmark of our people, either in their deeds or spirit. Such virtues that are found in Zimbab...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 06:35hrs | 1736 | by Pupurai Togarepi
Of human rights demands and regime change
Chapter 4 of Zimbabwe's Constitution adopted in 2013 outlines various rights which are supposed to be enjoyed by Zimbabwean citizens as they go about their business. A few bad apples among us are busy...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 15:34hrs | 1144 | by Elijah Chihota
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