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Al Jazeera exposé signals doom for Zimbabwe
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, it is my fervent conviction that the Al Jazeera four-part documentary, whose first edition Gold Mafia: The Laundry Service was premiered ...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:58hrs | | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Senegal President to open 2023 ZITF
Senegalese President Macky Sall is set to officially open this year's Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) which will run from 25 to 29 April 2023.This was revealed by President Emmerson M...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 08:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa invited to King Charles III coronation
Zimbabwe plans to double down on its foreign policy thrust, which has so far managed to establish rewarding transactional partnerships across the world, with President Mnangagwa expected to attend the...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must realise its position in global geopolitics
ON Wednesday United States envoy Robert Scott jetted into the country. He did not hide his mission. "I am here to engage in a series of meetings with government, civil society and other a...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's cronyism web exposed
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's habit of allowing his son Emmerson Jr and business partners like Kudakwashe Tagwirei to join his official trips and events – including state visits – smacks of braze...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:18hrs | 8 | 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 | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets Villa in Equatorial Guinea
President Mnangagwa has today been presented with a Presidential Villa by his counterpart President Teodore Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea.Named Villa Zimbabwe, the property, which is ful...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 20:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo seal 8 agreements
Underpinned by ambitions to engage and re-engage the international community in pursuit of socio-economic development, President Mnangagwa, is in Equatorial Guinea for high-level discussions covering ...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
General Chiwenga takes over as Acting President
Vice President General (Rtd), Dr Constantino Guvheya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga has assumed the office of the Acting President of the country following President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s state visit to...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 17:55hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Biti complains about ministers' failure to attend budget debates
LEGISLATORS have lamented failure by Cabinet ministers to attend 2023 budget debates last week saying this shows their lack of commitment to Parliament business, including critical budget discussions....Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:35hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa attends colourful Mbasogo inauguration
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa was among high profile dignitaries from several countries who joined thousands of local people here yesterday to witness the inauguration of Equatorial Guinea President, Teodoro Ob...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 05:09hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Equatorial Guinea for Mbasogo inauguration
President Mnangagwa arrived here early this morning to join other Heads of State and Government attending the official inauguration of Equatorial Guinea President, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo who ro...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe peddles a world-class Constitution that guarantees
The truth however, is this is just for show and is rarely enforced. How then can we use the beautiful...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 16:49hrs | 9 | by Sam Wezhira
Equatorial Guinea delegation meets Mnangagwa
Equatorial Guinea Foreign Affairs Minister Mr Simeon Oyono today paid a courtesy call on President Mnangagwa at State House to deliver a special message from President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo....Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 22:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mozambique, Zimbabwe power deal done'
Mozambique is ready to assist Zimbabwe with increased supplies of electricity from Cahora Bassa, the President has said. He was speaking on the sidelines of the 12th Extraordinary Summit on the Contin...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
US-Africa summit boost for Zimbabwe
President Mnangagwa yesterday flew to Mozambique for the 12th edition of the US-Africa Business Summit, which provides Zimbabwe a platform to engage with United States of America and African private s...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe X-factor haunts Chamisa
THE military is fretting over a potential electoral strategic alliance between former president Robert Mugabe and the adventurous opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, whom it has warned coul...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 16:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spending a fortune to retain power
The ruling Zanu-PF party is spending a fortune to retain power at the forthcoming polls, with millions of elusive hard currency having been spent on top-of-the-range vehicles, advertising and campaign...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 16:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporetr
G40 remnants causing Mnangagwa headaches
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's power base remains shaky as remnants of the G40 faction are causing headaches internally for the Zanu PF leader ahead of make-or-break general elections slated for July ...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 16:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reeling from political insecurity
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is reeling from political insecurity and deep-seated weaknesses which expose him to electoral damage and potentially perilous political headwinds ahead of critical general...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 16:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers to stay in Equatorial Guinea
ZIMBABWE will maintain its soldiers deployed in Equatorial Guinea to provide security to the country's leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo as well as train the West African nation's military, it has ...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 10:01hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe told to stop mourning job loss
EQUITORIAL Guinea President and close friend to former President Robert Mugabe reportedly told the ousted leader to count his blessings for having his life spared during the November coup that saw the...Published: 28 May 2018 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff rperter
Mugabe offered asylum
Former president Robert Mugabe has accused his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of allegedly spying on him and sabotaging his business interests, in the latest sign of a widening rift between...Published: 28 May 2018 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spying on Mugabe
Former president Robert Mugabe has accused his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of allegedly spying on him and sabotaging his business interests, in the latest sign of a widening rift between...Published: 27 May 2018 at 10:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mbasogo pays tribute to Africa’s founding fathers
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Equatorial Guinea counterpart yesterday paid tribute to Africa's founding fathers who toiled to lay the foundation of a united, free and economically integrated co...Published: 26 May 2018 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Obiang Nguema meets Mugabe, Chiwenga supervises meeting
Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has paid a one and half hour visit to his former counterpart Mr Robert Mugabe at his blue roof private residence in Borrowdale where the media...Published: 25 May 2018 at 15:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must apologise for Gukurahundi genocide' - Tshinga Dube
THE Zimbabwe Independent this week engaged former minister, senior Zanu-PF official and liberation struggle fighter retired Colonel Tshinga Dube who usually speaks out his mind, including during ex-pr...Published: 04 May 2018 at 08:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Is democracy un-African?
Libya has experienced nothing but war and brutality since the reign of King Idris I started in 1951. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi deposed the monarch in a bloodless coup in 1969. Under Gaddafi, or 'Brother...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 17:39hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
Mugabe bunks UN indaba
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe reportedly skipped a key meeting to discuss proposals to reform the United Nations and instead privately met with his long-time pal, Equatorial Guinean leader Teodoro Obiang Ng...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe is the Vice Chancellor of African dictators'
Africa has been captured by vicious dictators who hindered progress, violated rights of citizens, some maimed and killed fellow countrymen of which President Mugabe is the Pope of this bunch, People's...Published: 26 May 2017 at 10:16hrs | | by PDP Communications
Africans Crave Freedom: Yet, neither hate bondage nor love it!
"Indifference" best describes the willpower of a great portion of Africans who desire, yet slumber on their bid to untie the leash strapped on them by tyrant/under-performing leaders (most of which ha...Published: 14 May 2017 at 07:36hrs | | by Nimi Princewill
Mugabe, Museveni and Others: Dictators and Enemies of Africa, not Pan Africanists
Do not be fooled by empty speeches against America and her friends on the United Nations stage, ruthless African dictators are not Pan-Africanists.People are quick to forget the crimes of dict...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 04:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Ghana to help Tsvangirai against Mugabe?
Ghana's newly-inaugurated leader Nana Akufo-Addo has apparently pledged to help opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to ensure that Zimbabwe stages both free and fair polls in 2018.This emerged...Published: 09 Jan 2017 at 14:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to address Africa-Arab summit
President Mugabe is today expected to address other Heads of State and Government at the 4th Africa-Arab summit underway here.The President, who is accompanied by First Lady Dr Grace Mugab...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fails to fly out Simon Mann's plane
ATTEMPTS by government to register a plane belonging to convicted mercenary Simon Mann arrested in Harare in 2004 with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) have failed after aviation...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 11:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe back home
President Robert Mugabe is back home after attending the inauguration ceremony of President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda.Mugabe was met at the Harare International Airport by Vice President Emmer...Published: 12 May 2016 at 19:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Japanese envoy deliver special message to Mugabe
A special envoy from the Japanese Prime Minister, Mr Katsuyuki Kawai delivered a special message to the African Union chairman President Robert Mugabe on Friday afternoon.Mr Kawai, who was acc...Published: 29 Jan 2016 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's AU reign ends
After jetting into Harare on Friday evening to meet with Equatorial Guinea President Todoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President Robert Mugabe is expected to fly to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to hand over...Published: 25 Jan 2016 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe a man of sound knowledge,' says Nguema
Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo left Harare for his country yesterday afternoon after a three-day working visit here.President Nguema, who arrived in Harare on Friday...Published: 25 Jan 2016 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Equatorial Guinea President ends Zimbabwe visit
Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has left the country after a successful three day state visit which saw the two leaders concurring to lobby other African leaders to push for ...Published: 24 Jan 2016 at 17:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe express concern over negative reporting on African issues
President Mugabe has expressed his concern over negative reporting on African issues, saying journalists on the continent should be at the forefront of promoting positivity.The President was s...Published: 24 Jan 2016 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
What a year for Robert Mugabe
President Mugabe has revamped the way the African Union does things by introducing a host of processes and decision-making systems that ensure the bloc's effectiveness in addressing issues affecting t...Published: 24 Jan 2016 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Mbasogo meet
Visiting Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has held closed door meetings with African Union chair President Robert Mugabe.The two have concurred to use the forthcoming ...Published: 23 Jan 2016 at 19:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Mbasogo in closed door meetings
Visiting Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has held closed door meetings with African Union chair President Robert Mugabe.The two have concurred to use the forthcoming ...Published: 23 Jan 2016 at 18:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
When Insanity becomes the norm
The unanimous endorsement of the 91 year old Robert Mugabe as the Zanu-PF's candidate in the 2018 elections can only deepen the economic malaise faced by the country. Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe with an...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 12:07hrs | 1 | by Vusumuzi Moyo
Zimbabwe army to train Equatorial Guinea troops
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces has deployed a training contingent to the Equatorial Guinea to train the country's military officers on operational and logistic matters following an urgent request by the ...Published: 09 Nov 2015 at 05:28hrs | | by Innocent Ruwende
Mugabe is the dean of all African presidents, says Nguema
President Mugabe is the dean of all African presidents and deserves respect, Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has said.In an interview after paying a courtesy call on ...Published: 31 Oct 2015 at 10:40hrs | | by Cletus Mushanawani
Mugabe is well, says Charamba
PRESIDENT Mugabe is well and has successfully completed his mission at the just-ended India-Africa Summit Forum, says his spokesperson, George Charamba.Dismissing stories doing the rounds in t...Published: 30 Oct 2015 at 14:10hrs | | by Cletus Mushanawani
Mugabe not the longest African serving President
Paris - The Congolese government on Tuesday claimed a landslide victory in a controversial referendum allowing President Denis Sassou Nguesso to extend a grip on power that began three decades ago....Published: 27 Oct 2015 at 15:56hrs | | by AFP
'Avoid criticism of African leaders,' says Mugabe
African journalists should champion developmental issues in their reportage and avoid unnecessary criticism of the continent's leadership, African Union and SADC chairman President Robert Mugabe has s...Published: 22 Jul 2015 at 13:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
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