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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 | 538 | 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
Mnangagwa offers hyenas to Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Zimbabwean counterpart Emerson Mnangagwa shared a laugh during a tense debate on nuclear diplomacy on Friday, as they discussed how to deal with the real and m...Published: 08 Jun 2024 at 22:02hrs | 4 | 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
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
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
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 | 15 | 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
Russia's Rostec assists Zimbabwe establish air ambulance service
Russian Helicopters Holding Company, a part of Rostec State Corporation, has handed over a batch of 18 Ansat helicopters to Zimbabwe. The light multipurpose helicopters manufactured at the Kaz...Published: 26 May 2023 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ukraine wants to kill Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin is on Ukraine's kill list, the deputy chief of the country's intelligence agency has revealed. Vadim Skibitsky added that his subordinates are also hunting down top Ru...Published: 24 May 2023 at 17:27hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe acquires 18 copters from Russia
ZIMBABWE yesterday took delivery of 18 brand new helicopters from Russia that will go towards emergency air medical services, law enforcement and tourism, as the efforts at engagement and re-engagemen...Published: 19 May 2023 at 20:41hrs | 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
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 | 11 | 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 | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Russia can protect itself from consequences of sanctions'
Russia will work to protect itself from the negative impact of US economic sanctions, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said in an interview with Channel One."Russia is a modern, ...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 19:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
When everyone dreams of being an 'influencer' who will truly change the world?
It is all now about the "glitz and glam"!We now have a generation that wants to make a living from partying and drinking champagne!Everyone now dreams of being a "social media influenc...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:40hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa's options in the context of despotic capture of MDC Alliance?
In 1998, in Russia's St Petersburg, Oleg Sergeyev ran for the Governor's position. When he officially launched his campaign, to his chagrin there were two other opponents. Opponent one was Oleg Sergey...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:08hrs | 7 | 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
25 000 more doses arrive from Russia
ZIMBABWE has received 25 000 doses of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V donated by diamond miner Alrosa Group. Speaking while receiving the vaccines yesterday, Deputy Minister of Health and Child...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ambassador Comberbach starts UN mission
Ambassador Stuart Comberbach presented letters of credence appointing him as Zimbabwe's Permanent Representative to the United Nations office in Geneva, Switzerland at a brief ceremony at the UN's Pal...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's first batch of Covid-19 vaccines expected Monday
Government has dismissed as false and mischievous claims that it does not know which Covid-19 vaccine it should import, saying Zimbabwe will receive its first batch of 800 000 jabs from China on Monda...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 06:14hrs | 40 | by Staff reporter
Russian diamond giant to donate Covid-19 vaccines to Zimbabwe
Russian diamond producer Alrosa PJSC will buy and donate the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines to Angola and Zimbabwe to help those nations' inoculation programs, Chief Executive Officer Sergey Ivanov sa...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 18:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe turns to nuclear enrichment, with help from Russia
TROUBLED by a recurring electricity crisis, Zimbabwe agreed terms with Russia to engage in uranium exploration and enrichment in a bid to begin generation, Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo revealed this...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:13hrs | | by newzimbabwe
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 | 9 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
China to help remove Mnangagwa over Zimbabwe diamonds war with Russia
This article first appeared on Spotlight Zimbabwe. LONDON - President Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidential exit is all but sealed amid reports that China ...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 09:02hrs | 15 | by Itai Mushekwe
Russia, China to ditch US dollar
MOSCOW and Beijing have inked an intergovernmental agreement to switch to national currencies in bilateral trade and boost cross-currency settlements up to 50 percent as they ramp up efforts to move a...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 11:41hrs | | by Russia Today
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
Russian firm launches operations in Zimbabwe
ALROSA, the world leader in diamond production, yesterday announced it was launching operations in Zimbabwe.This was announced during President Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to Moscow, Russia....Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 07:19hrs | | 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 | | 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
Russians join Mnangagwa explosion probe
FOUR Russian specialists have jetted into the country to assist the multi-agency security team investigating the Bulawayo "bombing" incident which claimed the lives of two local security agents, in an...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 16:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meets Russians
THE world's second biggest diamond mining company, Alrosa, is in Zimbabwe exploring investment opportunities amid huge optimism the Russia-based firm, whose annual turnover stands at $4 billion, could...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diamond giant wants Zimbabwe gems
The world's second biggest diamond mining company, Alrosa, is in Zimbabwe exploring investment opportunities amid huge optimism the Russia-based firm, whose annual turnover stands at $4 billion, could...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 09:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meets Russians
THE world's second biggest diamond mining company, Alrosa, is in Zimbabwe exploring investment opportunities amid huge optimism the Russia-based firm, whose annual turnover stands at $4 billion, could...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 09:52hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'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 | 22 | 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
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