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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 | 90 | by Staff reporter
America: They kill us for sport!
My little story on American sanctionsOnly a few weeks shy of my sixty-first birthday, I have been, until late last week, on United States list of sanctioned Zimbabweans.I have been the...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 09:12hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Mnangagwa dynastic ambitions laid bare
VIRAL images of President Emmerson Mnangagwa pictured alongside his twin sons Sean and Collins have raised eyebrows amid suspicions that this could be a strategy to psych the nation into accepting the...Published: 01 Mar 2024 at 20:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Belarus strongman dispatches 'smallhouse' to Mnangagwa's wife
PROFESSOR Irina Abelskaya, the Belarusian envoy recently dispatched to Harare to deliver a donation to First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, is a mistress of the Eastern European country's leader Alexander L...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:21hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
Belarus army general's visits Zimbabwe
The visit of Belarusian army general Viktor Sheiman has sparked concerns and controversy. Sheiman, who is under sanctions from the European Union and the United States for alleged human rights abuses ...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:54hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Reuters
Putin and the Wagner mutiny
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple"Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)On 23rd June 2023 the Western media became delirious with joy when the heard that there was a ...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 15:39hrs | 8 | by Ian Beddowes
Mnangagwa's corruption double talk
THE latest row over patronage and opaque procurement in the government shows the widening rift between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga, and their attempts to favour th...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wife's official meddling intensifies
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's meddling in government affairs intensified this week after she flew out of the country with her twin sons Sean and Collins to hold separate meetings with Belarus Presid...Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 20:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Foreign Affairs Minister meets Lukashenko
As Zimbabwe seeks to deepen economic collaboration with Belarus, the Government has sent a delegation to Minsk to start making concrete moves of operationalising issues that were agreed on when Presid...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lukashenko joins Zimbabwe lithium rush
BELARUSIAN President Alexander Lukashenko this week travelled 7 982 kilometres, the distance by air from his capital Minsk to Harare, in his first sub-Saharan visit to meet President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa associate biggest winner in Zimbabwe-Belarus deals
ZIMBABWE'S honorary consul to Belarus Alexander Zingman, a close associate to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, was the biggest winner in trade agreements signed t...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lukashenko's eagerness for Mnangagwa to win elections casts serious doubts over credibility of deals signed!
Normally, when a national leader visits another country, he is expected - on account of common decency, respect and statesmanship - to keep clear of his hosts' domestic politics. It would have...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 12:13hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
President Alexander Lukashenko warns Mnangagwa
VISITING Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko told his ally President Emmerson Mnangagwa to work extremely hard to win this year's elections which he said will not be a stroll in the park for the Za...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:47hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
President Lukashenko, be warned, Zimbabwe will never be a colony again!
Amongst all the hullabaloo, with the pomp and fanfare, surrounding the so-called 'historic' state visit by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to Zimbabwe - some of us are more wary of a leader ...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Belarus spreads Zimbabwe footprint
BELARUS has increased its footprint in Zimbabwe after cabinet this week announced that it was concluding a framework to award the Eastern European country a tender to construct a 100-megawatt photovol...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:42hrs | | 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 | 8 | 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 | 9 | by Staff reporter
Russia warns US, Nato on arms transport
Russia will view US and NATO vehicles transporting weapons on Ukrainian territory as legitimate military targets, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the TASS news agency in an interview yeste...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:32hrs | | 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 | 12 | by Nevanji Madanhire
Belarus elites' golden deals with Mnangagwa
IN MARCH 2018, Belarus' autocratic President Alexander Lukashenko dispatched his right-hand man Viktor Sheiman to Zimbabwe to negotiate trade and business deals on the government's behalf.Shei...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:25hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Viktor Sheiman's son secretly mines gold in Zimbabwe
IN March 2018, Viktor Sheiman, the then head of the Property Management Directorate of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, paid an official visit to Zimbabwe where he and Mines minister Winston...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:23hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
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
Russia knocks Spain out in penalty shootout 4-3!
Russia hung on in extra time to beat Spain on penalties in a shock result that sends the hosts through to the last eight of World Cup 2018.In a match where Spain enjoyed 79 per cent of possess...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 17:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'A brazen attempt to murder civilians on British soil' - OpEd
On a quiet Sunday in one of Britain's most beautiful cathedral cities, a father and daughter were struck down by the first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since the Second World War.S...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 11:28hrs | 1 | by HMA Catriona Laing
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
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
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
Claims Kasukuwere visited Russia to secure lethal drugs to used on political opponents
A political activist Elliot Pfebve has made sensational claims that former Zanu-PF National Comissar Saviour Kasukuwere before he was ousted had been assigned by his party to go to Russia to secure le...Published: 21 Feb 2018 at 07:38hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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 | | 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
Russia's Lavrov set to visit Harare
Russia'S Foreign Affairs Minister Mr Sergei Lavrov is expected to visit Zimbabwe soon to cement relations between Harare and Moscow. Mr Lavrov visited the country in 2014 for the groundbreaking ceremo...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 10:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Yeltsin moment?
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and Russia's first post-soviet leader, Boris Yeltsin, could not have been cut from more different cloth.Teetotal Mugabe has often been described as a calculating asceti...Published: 12 Oct 2017 at 11:55hrs | | by Nelson Banya
Russia 10 - 0 UK
The G7 group of nations has failed to reach agreement over threatening new sanctions against Russia and Syria.Foreign ministers were seeking a common position on the Syrian conflict, befor...Published: 11 Apr 2017 at 14:07hrs | | by BBC
Thousands lose money to MMM Global Zimbabwe
THOUSANDS of people, among them civil servants and vendors, have lost thousands of dollars to fraudulent online pyramid scheme MMM Global Zimbabwe after it collapsed recently.The social financ...Published: 03 Sep 2016 at 09:25hrs | | by Felex Share and Reason Razao
A Prophet is not without honour, except in his own country
Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama was to confer on the Zimbabwean leader a Millennium Life Time Achievement award for his role in Zimbabwe's liberation struggle from British colonial rule had the...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 18:31hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Putin, Obama congratulate Zimbabwe on 36th anniversary
Russia and the United States have sent congratulatory messages to Zimbabwe on attaining 36 years of independence.Russian President Vladimir Putin and US president Barack Obama yesterday joined...Published: 19 Apr 2016 at 07:20hrs | | by Elita Chikwati
MMM South Africa is still alive and recruiting
After news emerged that MMM Global's Republic of Bitcoin collapsed over the weekend, the South African wing of MMM said its system is not a Ponzi or pyramid scheme and is not affected by the crash...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 11:29hrs | | by Staff reporter``
Mugabe speech mix-ups: Common error
PRESIDENT Mugabe's delivery of a wrong speech in Parliament yesterday is a fairly common mistake that leaders make at local and international forums, it has been established.In the world of sp...Published: 16 Sep 2015 at 06:32hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Tsvangirai 'misinforms' civil servants
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai is alleged to be moving around the country telling civil servants and parastatal heads that 150,000 government workers will soon be retrenched, as he tries to cause alar...Published: 02 Sep 2015 at 06:04hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Chidhakwa, Defence ministry in bitter tussle
MINES minister Walter Chidhakwa is locked in a bitter tussle with the Ministry of Defence over control of the much-vaunted US$4 billion Russia-Zimbabwean platinum mining project in Darwendale amid al...Published: 30 Jan 2015 at 09:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe takes swipe at 'evil men of our world'
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday hailed the increased economic ties between Harare and Moscow and fired a broadside on the European Union for imposing sanctions against the two countries in contrave...Published: 17 Sep 2014 at 11:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe seals and signs $3 billion platinum deal with Russia
Russia and Zimbabwe signed Tuesday a $3bn deal to jointly mine platinum in the southern African country, the world's third largest producer, with Moscow providing the investment funds.The ...Published: 16 Sep 2014 at 20:59hrs | | by AFP
Crimea votes to join Russia
Simferopol - Crimeans voted overwhelmingly on Sunday in favour of joining former political master Russia as tensions soared in the east of the splintered ex-Soviet nation amid the worst East-West...Published: 16 Mar 2014 at 19:48hrs | | by AFP
Obama, Putin have spoken about Ukraine crisis
Russia's Parliament signed off Saturday on President Vladimir Putin's request to send military forces into Ukraine, raising the stakes in a quickly escalating game of brinksmanship between the two cou...Published: 01 Mar 2014 at 22:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Russia ready to invade Ukraine; Kiev warns of war
Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded and won his parliament's approval on Saturday to invade Ukraine, where the new government warned of war, put its troops on high alert and appealed to NATO for...Published: 01 Mar 2014 at 20:50hrs | 5 | by Reuters
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