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Russia, Africa pledge to bypass Western-controlled global mechanisms
In a bold move to reshape international relations and break away from Western influence, Russia and African nations have committed to reducing their reliance on global systems dominated by the West. A...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 07:01hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
NATO rival warns of new 'nuclear arms race'
A decision to deploy long-range missiles in Western Europe could trigger a new nuclear arms race, Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary-General Imangali Tasmagambetov has warned....Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 16:01hrs | 793 | by Staff reporter
Breaking down Dr. Chihombori's allegations: Is the U.S. really the key obstacle to Africa's UNSC permanent seats?
In recent discourse surrounding Africa's quest for permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Dr. Arikana Chihombori, a prominent U.S.-based Pan-Africanist, has pointed the finger ...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 22:42hrs | 540 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'US not a good host for UN General Assembly'
The Russian leader won't travel to the US because it is not fulfilling its obligations as host country, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has saidRussian President Vladimir Putin will not attend this ye...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 13:29hrs | 960 | by Staff reporter
Just how low has Zimbabwe sank?
A country's state media is always a window into the government's psyche and mindset. It is like a reflection of the particular nation's soul.So, in spite of the insufferable tort...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 14:30hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Russia and China are lifting sanctions against North Korea?
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday the geopolitical climate had changed completely since the United Nations imposed sanctions on North Korea, and he accused the West of breaking ...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 18:19hrs | 1 | by Reuters
Ramaphosa agrees he will arrest Putin if he ever sets foot in SA
The Cyril Ramaphosa led South African government has agreed to execute the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin if he ever sets foot in the countr...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 16:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BRICS new currency to shield against sanctions
The Brics are looking to "ensure that we do not become victims to sanctions that have secondary effects on countries that have no involvement in issues that have led to those unilateral sanctions," Na...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa grants immunity to Putin
The South African has gazetted International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor's notice for the Diplomatic Immunity and Privileges Act to be granted to all international officials at BR...Published: 30 May 2023 at 07:47hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Russia warns West against 'playing with fire'
The US and its allies are "playing with fire" by doubling down on their support for Kiev amid the conflict with Moscow, including by planning to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, Russian Foreign...Published: 28 May 2023 at 14:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe wants to join BRICS
Zimbabwe considers the group a new force in international relations, a senior politician saysThe Zimbabwean government would like to become a member of the BRICS economic bloc, the speaker of ...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 16:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russia extends footprint in Zimbabwe
RUSSIA, which is increasingly being isolated by the international community over its invasion of Ukraine, this week expanded its global influence in Africa after Moscow dispatched a business delegatio...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 13:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare backs Moscow
WINDS of a renewed Cold War between the United States and Russia - thunderously manifesting itself in Ukraine through iron and blood - swept across the southern African region this week as Russian For...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biden's US$55 billion fails to entice African countries to ditch Russia
FRESH from the US-Africa Summit in Washington DC, with a US$55 billion financial package over the next three years, African leaders from the region find themselves confronted with a reality check of a...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
If Mnangagwa is unable to explain 'sanctions on Zimbabwe' then just how real are they?
Did you know that countries that have genuine economic sanctions imposed on them by world powers, oftentimes, actually deny their true impact on the affected nation's economy?Why?Simpl...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | 10 | by Tendai Mbofana
If Mnangagwa unable to explain 'sanctions on Zimbabwe' then just how real are they?
Did you know that countries that have genuine economic sanctions imposed on them by world powers, oftentimes, actually deny their true impact on the affected nation's economy?Why? Simp...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 20:54hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Kasukuwere: To be or not to be!
Widening Russian War Aims What a week we have had! War works largely on laws of the unforeseen and the unintended. The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, has ominously hinted at ...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:27hrs | | by Jamwanda
Zimbabwe's US$3bn platinum deal all but collapses in a shambles
IT was noisily touted as a game changer for Zimbabwe's mining sector, and the economy; a centrepiece of government's ambitious yet unrealistic US$12 billion target for the industry by next year and ca...Published: 31 May 2022 at 07:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Biden sends Indian to threaten India over Russian sanctions
A US national security official – who played a leading role in crafting US economic measures against Russia over its military assault on Ukraine – will travel to India to discuss New Delhi's respo...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 12:01hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
We are on the brink of World War III
A Third World War is looming after Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The military action which Russian President Vladimir Putin described as a special military operation to disarm a neo-Nazi...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 11:02hrs | | by Energy Mutodi
Unfriendly' states to pay for Russian gas in roubles
Russia will refuse to accept payment for natural gas supplies in ‘compromised' currencies, including the dollar and the euro, and will move to payments in roubles, President Vladimir Putin said yest...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russia cut ties with Europe
Russia has officially informed Council of Europe of its withdrawal from the organization. As Deputy Speaker of the Russian Duma Pyotr Tolstoy announced on Tuesday, a letter from the Minister of Foreig...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 16:19hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe the new Cold War front
ON February 5, 2018 United States President Donald Trump wrote to the US Congress that he was extending sanctions on Zimbabwe by another year. This year President Joe Biden did the same.The gi...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:28hrs | 13 | by Nevanji Madanhire
Democracy is not Coca-Cola
The Chinese Foreign Ministry has issued a warning aimed at Washington, calling on the US not to push its own form of democracy on other nations or split the international community by excluding countr...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russia rubbishes UK vaccine theft claims
Claims in the British press that Russian spies stole the blueprint for the British-made Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are unfounded, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.An October 10 arti...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russia rebuilding a bridge to Africa
About 35 leaders of African countries have officially confirmed their participation in the Russia-Africa Summit, Russian Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa and Deputy Foreign Minister, ...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 09:17hrs | 10 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
Africa Awaits Russia's Investment
Russia has been looking to raise its existing relationship with African countries and Afreximbank is now providing huge support in realizing that long term goal. The bank, with the task of transformin...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 11:04hrs | 5 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
Mnangagwa's visit to Russia unlocks $300 million
President Emerson Mnangagwa's visit to Russia has unlocked $300 million that will trigger implementation of the $2 billion Great Dyke Investment (GDI) platinum mining venture in Darwendale.GDI...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 18:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe awaits Russian investors
Like many African countries, Zimbabwe's economy needs sustainable resuscitation. On his mid-January official working visit to Moscow, President Emmerson Mnangagwa told Sputnik News Agency (SNA) in an ...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 09:01hrs | | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
Putin moots military base in Zimbabwe…….as Mnangagwa begs for Moscow bailout package
COLOGNE/VANCOUVER/HARARE - Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has reportedly set his eyes on opening a Russian strategic military base in Zimbabwe, as Moscow ratchets up her new foreign policy in Afri...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 06:29hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya/Mary-Kate Kahari
Mnangagwa kick-starts 2019 reengagement offensive
President Emmerson Mnangagwa kick-starts his 2019 engagement and reengagement and economic diplomacy offensive with visits to four European countries next week and the Davos World Economic Forum meeti...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 14:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
US sanctions on Zimbabwe - truths, history and lies
A new regime of US sanctions has just been signed into law, opening a fresh front in the increasingly polarised political debate in Zimbabwe.Critics say they hurt the economy, while supporters...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 19:01hrs | 1 | by newsZWire
Putin sees a Mnangagwa victory?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa held a closed door meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the 10th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg on Friday during which the leader of the Eastern E...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Military Junta dumps Mohadi to 'die' in SA hospital
Tribalism has reared its ugly head again in Zimbabwe. This time, the evil demon, has manifested itself right in the office of the president.The man who is supposed to be the third most powerfu...Published: 30 Apr 2018 at 09:14hrs | | by Wilson Mahlafuna Sibanda & Khohliso Maqhoba
'Zimbabwe, US relations set to improve'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says relations between Zimbabwe and the USA are set to improve following the visit by five American senators who met him at his Munhumutapa offices in Harare this afternoo...Published: 07 Apr 2018 at 18:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga back at work
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga got back to work last week on Thursday, a day after he was rushed to hospital, after suffering a dramatic fall at the Zanu-PF headquarters - forcing him to cancel h...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance queries foreign envoys' rush to endorse Mnangagwa
THE MDC Alliance has questioned the rush by foreign envoys in endorsing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration as legitimate, saying only a free, fair and credible election will deal with legit...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ends decade-long impasse
BOTSWANA and Zambia yesterday agreed to incorporate Zimbabwe in the US$259 million Kazungula rail and road bridge project as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration cleanses international diplom...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russia, Zimbabwe ink military deal
Zimbabwe and Russia plan to develop military-technical cooperation, in which the eastern European country would intensify its supply of weapons to the Zimbabwean army.This came out during meet...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 08:44hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
EXCLUSIVE: Mugabe ceded power to Mnangagwa in 2008, but reneged on deal in 2013
COLOGNE– President Emmerson Mnangagwa could have been sworn into office, as early as December 2014, after former leader, Robert Mugabe, had reportedly struck an informal gentlemen’s agreement to h...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 07:32hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
Russia promises Mnangagwa military, political aid
RUSSIA has pledged to provide military and technical assistance to President Emmerson Mnangagwa "to help deal with the political situation in Zimbabwe".Visiting Russian Foreign minister Sergey...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russia to set up industrial zone in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe and Russia yesterday signed three Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) one of which seeks to facilitate the setting up of a Russian industrial zone here. The MoUs were signed at Munhum...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russia commits to assist Zimbabwe
Russian Foreign Affairs minister is in Zimbabwe and met with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to discuss ways on how to strengthen existing bilateral relations between the two countries.Sergei Lav...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 19:41hrs | | by Byo24News Reporter
Putin commends Mnangagwa
Russia's President Mr Vladimir Putin has praised President Mnangagwa for bringing political stability to the country and steering Zimbabwe towards economic growth.The message was delivered by ...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 16:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russia eyes Zimbabwe's diamonds and platinum
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday met with Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa and discussed possible military co-operation as well as plans to boost economic ties.La...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 15:40hrs | | by AFP
Russia's Lavrov arrives
A special envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mr Sergey Lavrov has landed at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport this evening.Mr Lavrov, who is the Russian Foreign Minister ...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 20:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sergei Lavrov due in Zimbabwe this week
RUSSIA'S President Mr Vladimir Putin will this week dispatch a high-powered delegation led by his Foreign Minister Mr Sergei Lavrov to Zimbabwe, in yet another show of confidence in President Emmerson...Published: 04 Mar 2018 at 17:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russians descend on Zimbabwe
Russia's President Mr Vladimir Putin will this week dispatch a high-powered delegation led by his Foreign Minister Mr Sergei Lavrov to Zimbabwe, in yet another show of confidence in President Emmerson...Published: 04 Mar 2018 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe re-engagement gathers momentum
Ever since the swift execution of Operation Restore Legacy and the resultant resignation of President Robert Mugabe in November 2017, the country's trajectory and fortunes have a turn for the better, ...Published: 08 Feb 2018 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Bevan Musoko
Mnangagwa to meet UK envoy
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is making remarkable headway in taking Zimbabwe to the global arena with the President this week set to receive a special envoy of British Prime Minister ...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
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