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Zimbabwe to look East for trophy hunting export markets
Zimbabwean wildlife authorities are eyeing trophy hunting export markets in the East as some European countries move to ban trophy imports, an official said on Tuesday.The European Parliament ...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 12:13hrs | 65 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe blocked Election Observer Mission from presenting final report in the country'
The European Union Election Observer Mission (EU EOM) has accused the government of impeding the presentation of its final report on the August 2023 election by imposing onerous restrictions on the de...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 09:37hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Ex-colonial masters says Zimbabwe has duty to hold credible polls
The European Union yesterday said Zimbabwe has a duty to comply with regional and international instruments on the holding of credible elections.EU Election Observer Mission (EOM) deputy chief...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 09:03hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
EU observers target remote areas
THE European Union (EU) says it will deploy more than 150 observers to Zimbabwe's August 23 elections.Brussels revealed this yesterday as it deployed the first batch of 46 observers to the cou...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 06:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe warns foreign observer missions
Zimbabwe has warned foreign observer missions to the August 23 elections to stick to their mandate and abandon any attempts to interfere with the much-awaited national poll process.The call wa...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:49hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Over 60 foreign observer missions invited to Zimbabwe elections
FORTY-SIX countries — including the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom — as well as 17 continental and regional bodies, have been invited to observe the August 23 harmonised elections, i...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:38hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, EU sign agreement on polls
ZIMBABWE and the European Union yesterday signed an Administrative Agreement that sets out the terms of the relationship between Government and the EU Elections Observer Mission for the harmonised ele...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 07:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
EU dispatches exploratory mission ahead of Zimbabwe polls
THE European Union recently dispatched an exploratory delegation to assess Zimbabwe's preparedness to hold free and fair elections, as well as to gauge the legislative climate ahead of the 2023 polls....Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Falcon College pegs fees at $11 million
UPMARKET Falcon College has pegged its second term fees at a staggering US$10,588.79 just as University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students celebrate a High Court judgement barring the institution from hiking t...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:37hrs | 40 | by Staff reporter
EU crafting own version of PVO Bill
THE European Union is working on a law that will force non-governmental groups, consultancies and academic institutions to disclose any non-EU funding - a piece of legislation that is almost similar t...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
EU to ban petrol, diesel cars by 2035
The European Parliament on Tuesday formally approved a law to effectively ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the European Union from 2035, aiming to speed up the switch to electric vehicles...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 04:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's links with kleptocrats, dodgy business networks solidify
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's state visit to Equatorial Guinea this week, where he met the world's longest-serving head of state, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, underlines his penchant for ...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:17hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
EU MP calls for Zimbabwe sanctions removal
A MEMBER of the European Parliament, Fulvio Martusciello, has called for the removal of illegal economic sanctions that were imposed by the Western world on Zimbabwe, saying Harare needs a fresh start...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ukraine President tells EU to 'prove you are with us'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged the European Union to prove that it sides with Ukraine in its war with Russia a day after signing an official request to join the bloc."We are...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
League of Patriots to launch Kick out sanctions campaign
Sanctions are hurting the people of Zimbabwe and the economy of Zimbabwe. Sanctions have stifled economic growth and recovery. Sanctions have cost Zimbabwe an estimated US$42 billion in revenu...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 12:38hrs | 33 | by Itai Gumbo
EU tells Mnangagwa to urgently lift ban on by-elections
THE European Union (EU) has urged government to urgently lift the ban on by-elections and ensure that seats left vacant after MDC Alliance Members of Parliament and councillors were recalled by the Do...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa MDC's fresh sanctions call flops
THE MDC-Alliance unsuccessfully tried to lobby the European Union (EU) to impose fresh sanctions on Zimbabwe after its parliamentarians had been recalled from Parliament following a Supreme Court ruli...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
In Europe desperation of some male-Africans is horrendous and pathetic
Seek first the advice from Prophet Makandiwa, make a pilgrimage to Nigeria and seek audience with TB Joshua immediately; With prayers you will win the 2019 EU parliamentary elections; said the young N...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 17:24hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
US to support Zimbabwe's trade in baby elephants
US zoos now plan to import baby elephants from Zimbabwe, undeterred by the international furore over their 2016 import of 18 wild elephants from Swaziland.The US Association of Zoos and Aquari...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 15:43hrs | 17 | by Melissa Reitz
Boris Johnson to be UK's next Prime Minister, EU panics
Boris Johnson has been elected new Conservative leader in a ballot of party members and will become the next UK prime minister.He beat Jeremy Hunt comfortably, winning 92,153 votes to his riva...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 13:58hrs | 1 | by BBC
Chamisa's Statement to the Press
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa's Statement to the Press on the 6th of March 2019 - Morgan Richard Tsvangirai HouseDefining a new course for Zimbabwe.(New Direction, New Ideas)Ba...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 23:13hrs | 1 | by Adv. Nelson Chamisa
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
Zimbabwe seeks regional alliances
WHILST Zimbabwe is increasingly becoming isolated on the international stage, with the United States of America expected to tighten sanctions against Harare in the coming week, the southern African co...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's utterances have Mugabe's yesteryear echoes
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent utterances that government would take unspecified action on lawyers providing free legal advice and doctors voluntarily attending to victims of last month's viole...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 A...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 07:22hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Zanu-PF condemns EU decision on sanctions
ZANU-PF has condemned the decision by the European Union (EU) to conditionally maintain sanctions against Zimbabwe, saying it comes against the background of the country having made tremendous progres...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 22:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has power to end Zimbabwe isolation
PRONOUNCEMENTS by the European parliament on the grave human rights situation in Zimbabwe provided a concise checklist of everything that has gone wrong in the past six months and President Emmerson M...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:17hrs | 1 | by Editorial - The Standard
The EU Parliament resolutions on Zimbabwe read like Chamisa's script
The European Parliament resolutions on Zimbabwe (2019/2563(RSP) are like reading from Chamisa script. In fact it's not surprising as the EU has been half-hearted in its attempts to engage the Second R...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 11:14hrs | | by Brightface Mutema
EU calls for more Zimbabwe sanctions
The European Parliament recommended the tightening of sanctions on senior Zimbabwe officials and institutions on Thursday citing increased repression by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government....Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:29hrs | 3 | by ZimLive
Zimbabwe problems are surmountable, says Mthuli Ncube
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has said the serious challenges facing the country, including a high budget deficit and significant debt, and currency challenges, were surmountable with major structural...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Dark times are behind us' Ncube assure EU - how so, when just rigged elections
Man is supposed to be a creature of reason; tyrants are creatures of habit, for reason and logic count for nothing in their world. To the tyrant what is, does not matter; it is what he says is, that m...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 06:35hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mthuli Ncube's full speech to the European Parliament
Zimbabwe is back on the map. Just as we open up our economy and democratic space, so too are we opening our arms to the world. The dark times are behind us, and the future is bright...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 13:21hrs | | by Mthuli Ncube
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 Profess...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Staf reporter
Seek first advice from Prophet Makandiwa; only then can you win EU parliamentary elections!
Seek first the advice from Prophet Makandiwa, make a pilgrimage to Nigeria and seek audience with TB Joshua; only then are you going to win the European parliamentary elections; said the young Nigeria...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 15:42hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Britain's bet on Mnangagwa victory hangs in the balance
Efforts to nurse Zimbabwe back to international respectability depended on free and fair elections, but the plan appears to be unravelling.Ever since the then Africa minister Rory Stewart took...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 12:24hrs | | by Patrick Wintour
Observers raise red flag over elections
INTERNATIONAL observers watching over Zimbabwe's watershed elections have raised the red flag over the way Monday's elections were held, although those based in the region largely gave a thumbs-up to ...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'The 2018 harmonised elections are a critical test of Zimbabwe's reform process' - EU Observer Mission
"These elections are a critical test of Zimbabwe's reform process. Given the context of past elections, great efforts need to be made to ensure public and political confidence in the 2018 polls," stat...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 11:55hrs | 1 | by Byo24News
EU deploys 44 observers ahead of polls
The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to Zimbabwe deployed 44 long-term observers throughout the country ahead of the harmonised elections on July 30 over the weekend.High R...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Air Zimbabwe banned in EU airspace
ZIMBABWE'S national carrier Air Zimbabwe has been banned from European airspace.This is due to "unaddressed safety deficiencies that were detected by the European Aviation Safety Agency during...Published: 16 May 2017 at 20:47hrs | 2 | by Alice Dube
Pastor Mawarire suffers fresh setback
Evan Mawarire yesterday demanded that the State furnish him with a trial date or remove him from remand, but the application was dismissed.Mawarire, whose independent social media movement...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Trump beheading Statue of Liberty', Has German magazine gone too far?
German weekly magazine Der Spiegel sparked controversy at home and abroad on Saturday with a front cover illustration of U.S. President Donald Trump beheading the Statue of Liberty.It depicts ...Published: 04 Feb 2017 at 23:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The liberating power of Brexit
The referendum of June 23, 2016 regarding Britain's remain at or exit from the European Union, through its subversive BREXIT result - the first major, painful defeat for the under German control Europ...Published: 29 Sep 2016 at 11:22hrs | | by Isidoros Karderinis
European Union puts African elephants in jeopardy
The first act of the EU as a full member of The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), may well jeopardise the future of African elephants.At ...Published: 23 Sep 2016 at 11:14hrs | 2 | by Adam Cruise
EU adopt joint motion on Zimbabwe
The European Parliament has adopted a joint motion on Zimbabwe in which it expresses serious concern about the increase in violence against demonstrators in recent months.The motion, agreed by...Published: 23 Sep 2016 at 07:58hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mujuru's impending trip to Chatham House where she hopes to impress her British benefactors
THE Tongas have a good saying: Hearts are not far from concord when noses have already fraternised. Let me open my gonamombe, pull out the lid of the cow-horn canister, so you the reader and me, c...Published: 17 Sep 2016 at 12:29hrs | 8 | by Nathaniel Manheru
EU urged to consider re-imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe
THE European Parliament said it condemns the current wave of extrajudicial executions and killings in the Philippines, deteriorating security and widespread intimidation in Somalia, and growing vi...Published: 15 Sep 2016 at 12:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe could be toppled by military generals'
Former Zanu-PF Hurungwe West MP Temba Mliswa has sensationally claimed that President Robert Mugabe does not trust securocrats that have always been seen as the power behind the nonagenarian leade...Published: 03 Jul 2016 at 22:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Brits have voted to leave EU, there is nothing to be feared other than fear itself
The British people have voted to leave the EU. Those campaigned for remain on basis of fear of the unknown are scratching the bottom of the barrel for the doom's day economic collapse they had predict...Published: 26 Jun 2016 at 20:23hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe watches UK exit from EU with interest
THE Government is watching with relative interest the developments in the European Union following the exit by Britain from the bloc yesterday. The British voted in a referendum to exit the EU resulti...Published: 25 Jun 2016 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
British vote to 'LEAVE' the EU was wise because EU is a dysfunctional union
For the record, the British vote to leave the EU was a wise decision for the British people and for the rest of the world including developing countries like Zimbabwe and even the rest of the EU. Why?...Published: 24 Jun 2016 at 23:16hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
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