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Zimbabwean CIO's role in Simon Mann's arrest
Happyton Bonyongwe, Zimbabwe's former Director-General of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), has disclosed details about Zimbabwe's involvement in thwarting a 2004 mercenary-led coup attempt...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 16:21hrs | 2171 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 13 | 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
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 | 2 | 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 | 9 | 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 | 11 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 44 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 3 | by Staff reporter
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 | 3 | 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 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 | 2 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 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 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 | 1 | by AFP
Mugabe, Nguema's shadowy cash deals
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe seems to be increasingly relying on Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo for financial bailouts that are not always in the public domain, but have been fil...Published: 18 Jul 2015 at 13:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Mugabe won't add value to the AU
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is set to take over the African Union (AU) leadership tomorrow. Because he is the current Sadc chairman, nothing bars him from simultaneously taking the helm of both while also...Published: 29 Jan 2015 at 13:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Soldiers' deployment at Afcon unconstitutional'
THE opposition MDC-T yesterday described the government's recent deployment of State security personnel to provide security at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) soccer tournament in Equato...Published: 21 Jan 2015 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meets E. Guinea envoy
A special envoy from Equatorial Guinea has paid a courtesy call on Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa at his offices in Harare to deliver a special message for the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugab...Published: 02 Jan 2015 at 15:25hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
A leaders' summit without African leadership
The entry of US President Barack Obama in 2009 was characterised by inflated and buoyant expectations by most Africans that the Washington song would be sweet melody for the rest of the continent....Published: 11 Aug 2014 at 11:03hrs | 2 | by Nelson Chamisa
'Africa has everything except leadership'
The entry of Barack Obama as United States President was characterised by inflated and buoyant expectations by most Africans who thought the Washington song would be sweet melody for the rest of the c...Published: 10 Aug 2014 at 09:26hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
Mugabe arrives back home - Video
President Robert Mugabe has arrived back home from Equatorial Guinea, where he had joined other African leaders attending the 23rd Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Heads of State and Govern...Published: 28 Jun 2014 at 20:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe gives Bona $100,000 and 55 head of cattle
The newly wedded couple, Simba Chikore and Miss Bona Mugabe, was showered with gifts that came to hundreds of thousands of US dollars in cash, cattle and all manner of goodies from relatives, friends...Published: 03 Mar 2014 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Linda Muriro
First family hosts lavish wedding for daughter
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and First Lady, Grace yesterday hosted a lavish wedding for their daughter, Bona at their Borrowdale Brooke mansion.Bona tied the knot with her husband Simba Chikore,...Published: 02 Mar 2014 at 07:45hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T members arrested for forcefully grabbing Mugabe farming inputs
Six villagers who are MDC-T members have been arrested and charged with theft of agricultural inputs here after protesting against the partisan distribution of maize seed along political affiliation....Published: 19 Nov 2013 at 17:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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