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British objections stall Zimbabwe's bid to rejoin the club of colonies
Zimbabwe's bid to rejoin the Commonwealth has hit a stumbling block, with British objections delaying the southern African nation's re-admission, Foreign Affairs Minister Amon Murwira revealed in Parl...Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 09:04hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to open another conference
Today, President Mnangagwa is set to preside over the 20th edition of the International Inter-Ministerial Conference on South-South and Triangular Co-operation in Population and Development, which wil...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 06:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Warriors in World Cup draw
ZIMBABWE has been placed in one of the 2026 Fifa World Cup qualifying draw pots ahead of the expected lifting of its ban by the World governing body.A delegation from Fifa, Caf and Cosafa are ...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 20:44hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
RBZ backs Pan-African payment, settlement system
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya has thrown weight behind the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System, a cross-border, financial market infrastructure enabling payment system...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Southern Environment and Fencorp join forces to tell African stories
FENCORP GLOBAL, a media and deal brokering firm, has recently formed a partnership with The Southern Environment, a media platform dedicated to sharing African stories on the environment and climate c...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fencorp Global pushes for African trade and tourism
FENCORP GLOBAL a Delaware domiciled communications and deal brokering firm with operations in South Africa , Gambia and Zimbabwe has called on African leaders to fully commit to the accelerated implem...Published: 14 May 2023 at 08:28hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Maridadi seeks new markets for Zimbabwe products
As the manufacturing sector continues to increase production driven by favourable policies introduced by the Second Republic, Zimbabwe's Ambassador to Senegal James Maridadi has decided to help the fi...Published: 10 Apr 2023 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
LIST: Top 50 African Trailblazers Awards nominees released
The inaugural Afri50 Trailblazer Awards will take place on May 1, 2023, in Johannesburg, South Africa, coinciding with Workers Day. The event will recognize 50 African trailblazers who have made a sig...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 08:44hrs | 20 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Prophet Edd Branson shocking business deals in America
Popular blogger, Youtuber Political Analyst and Christian Commentator Zigo who is known for his anti-Prophets videos on Youtube has posted a video praising the works done by Ambassador Prophet Edd Bra...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 13:18hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Meet Kemo Bojang: Africa's rising star
Gambian Youthful politician Kemo Bojang was recently recognised as one of the top 100 influential young persons of Africa. Kemo Bojang has over ten years of experience in advocating for youth ...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 09:12hrs | 19 | by Khumbu Malinga
Forthcoming Zimbabwean elections not a Chamisa alone spectacle
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa cannot wrestle power from Zanu PF single -handedly without all progressive Zimbabweans putting hands on deck....Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 16:03hrs | | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
African Court 'refuses' to probe Zimbabwe rights abuses
THE African Court on Human and People's Rights has revealed that Zimbabwe has not yet ratified the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the establishment of the court, hence it has no juris...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZLHR receives funding from US to fund subversive activities?
A senior official with the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), Mr Macdonald Moyo, yesterday allegedly admitted that the organisation receives direct funding from the United States government to ...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kanifing Mayor builds record of excellence
Youthful Mayor of Kanifing in The Gambia his lordship, Talib Ahmed Bensouda, born in 1986, is the youngest Mayor in the history of the Gambia.In 2018, at just 31 years old, Talib blazed to a s...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 20:02hrs | 17 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Statement celebrating World Teachers Day
The 5th of October is World Teachers' Day. The Gambia - Zimbabwe friendship association celebrates and appreciates all teachers around the world. We are proud of Teachers in Africa and in partic...Published: 08 Oct 2022 at 07:19hrs | | by Kemo Bajong
Zimbabwe makes history with specialised UN agency seat
Zimbabwe has been elected into the United Nations specialised agency for civil aviation after winning a historic seat during the International Civil Aviation Organisation Council (ICAO) elections whic...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 05:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pilots new malaria prevention programme
ZIMBABWE is piloting a non-chemical-based malaria prevention treatment programme in Chiredzi, to help curb the growing resistance to existing malaria vector chemicals.Ministry of Health and Ch...Published: 19 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Warriors date Bafana again
FORMER Warriors coach, Sunday Chidzambwa, believes the senior national football team have been drawn in a fair Africa Cup of Nations qualifying group that has Morocco, South Africa and Liberia....Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
8 dead, 50 injured in Africa Cup of Nations Cameroon stadium crush
Eight people were killed and about 50 injured in a crush outside a Cameroonian football stadium on Monday ahead of an Africa Cup of Nations match.Crowds attempted to enter through a southern e...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 06:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
James Maridadi optimistic
Zimbabwe's Ambassador to Senegal Mr James Maridadi is optimistic that the embassy would be officially accredited in Mali, Guinea Conakry and the Gambia this year.Ambassador Maridadi represents...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe changing its passport by 2023
Zimbabwe's passport prices will double from US$60 to US$120 after the government awarded a passport production contract to a corruption-linked Belgian firm.President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tues...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 22:51hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe awards passport production contract to Belgian firm
A Belgian company linked to bribes-for-tenders in over half-a-dozen countries has been awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to produce biometric passports for Zimbabwe, ZimLive reported.Zim...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 12:06hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
South Africa variant now 'dominant' in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe says the coronavirus variant first discovered in neighbouring South Africa now makes up more than 60% of cases within its borders.It is the first country outside of South Africa to re...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 21:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe engages Francophone countries
Zimbabwe's attendance at today's inauguration of Guinean President alpha Conde cements the already existing relations between the two countries and opens doors to trade throughout West Africa, Vice Pr...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 08:01hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Caf fines Aubameyang for exposing it
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been fined $10 000 for social media posts that tarnished the "honour and image" of the Confederation of African Football after his Gabon team spent the night on an airpor...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dozens of laws should be repealed in Gambia
The Commonwealth has said dozens of discriminatory gender laws should be repealed or revised in The Gambia to guarantee equal rights for women and girls within the legal framework.A report - p...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 16:40hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Gambia artist partners with Bulawayo's hip hop artist
Gambian Artist AC Cham from Kombo East in Gambia will be collaborating with Lunatic Sway a Bulawayo hip hop artist who is signed under Alicious Muzik.The music project was brokered by Sibusiso...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 11:34hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kenyan lawyer calls for revival of Sadc tribunal
OUTSPOKEN Kenyan lawyer and African political commentator, Patrick Otieno Lumumba has called for the revival of the Sadc Tribunal which was disbanded by the regional bloc in 2012.The tribunal ...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
West Africa bloc currency ECO to launch in 2020
Leaders of a 15-nation West African bloc have called for greater structural reforms as they step up efforts for the introduction of a shared currency, aimed to be launched in 2020.In a stateme...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 09:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe journalist, one of the first black female journos to report on the genocide in Rwanda
Long-time Southern African regional correspondent Susan Njanji from Zimbabwe was one of very few black African female journalists to cover the genocide in Rwanda. Here she reflects on the challenges t...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 08:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
US foreign policy prefers Kenya
Kenya is "one of our key friends in Africa - nay, in the world," said a confident, pleased United States (US) assistant secretary of State for African Affairs, Tibor P Nagy, at a May 9 briefing in Was...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:03hrs | 5 | by Pearl Matibe
Umuntu Movement Zimbabwe's donated parcel detained by Zimra
The Umuntu Movement Zimbabwe Trust a permaculture organization in Bulawayo received a donation of fruit tree seeds from a donor from Pakistan. The donor agenda was to empower the organization an...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 15:52hrs | 3 | by Enos Denhere
Mnangagwa's govt blames Internet for own failures
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has developed a knack for blaming everything that has gone bad in Zimbabwe on social media a default mode that has seen it shutting down the Internet re...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 19:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vuka Byo Vuka successfully brings UK community together for a memorable occasion
Community initiative, Vuka Bulawayo Vuka, held in Manchester over the weekend, wasn't your ordinary or typical community event. There was nothing superfluous about it, it in fact, embraced what commun...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 07:14hrs | 5 | by Tidi Kwidini
Express Links International announced as headline sponsor for Vuka Bulawayo Vuka
Money remittance company, Express Links International Limited, is the lead sponsor for UK based Bulawayo community initiative, Vuka Bulawayo Vuka, taking place in Manchester this month.Special...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 10:27hrs | 2 | by Tidi Kwidini
Khupe earmarked for a diplomatic posting
Speculation is rife within the MDC led by Thokozani Khupe that its leader could be earmarked for a diplomatic posting in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government.This follows claims on social...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 14:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC salute Trudy Stevenson
BOTH the ruling Zanu PF and opposition MDC Alliance parties yesterday briefly set aside their differences and saluted the late Trudy Stevenson, who served as Zimbabwean ambassador to Senegal and The G...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Trudy Stevenson to be cremated
THE family of Zimbabwe's former Ambassador to Senegal, Mrs Trudy Stevenson, yesterday announced she will be cremated next Friday. In an announcement on her Twitter handle, the family said: "Th...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Repatriation of Stevenson body underway
Preparations for the repatriation of the remains of late Zimbabwean ambassador to Senegal and The Gambia Mrs Trudy Stevenson are underway in the north western African country.In a telephone in...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 20:07hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
Ambassador Trudy Stevenson found dead
Zimbabwe's ambassador to Senegal and the Gambia Ms Trudy Stevenson has died.She was 73.Ambassador Stevenson was reportedly found dead at her residence in Dakar, Senegal, today....Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 18:53hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe underestimating its GDP
Zimbabwe's gross domestic product (GDP) reached $17, 85 billion last year, which is an all-time high, according to industry and commerce experts TradingEconomics.comZimbabwe's GDP averaged $6,...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Is Mnangagwa going the Yahya Jammeh-way?
As 30 July poll beckons, the atmosphere flares up as parties crisscross the lengths and breadths of the country soliciting votes from a poverty-ridden electorate. All candidates mete out plans to revi...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 15:43hrs | 1 | by Benny Gudo
Youth can be agents of positive change
Jayathma Wickramanayake, 27, from Sri Lanka, is the new UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth. Her role is to expand the UN’s youth engagement and advocacy efforts. She also serves as an adviser t...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 14:50hrs | 1 | by Jayathma Wickramanayake, UN youth envoy
Zimbabwe's July 30 elections: Will the will of the people slay Goliath?
A few weeks ago, a colleague, who was not registered to vote, told me he thought voting was a pointless exercise. He strongly believed that the new administrators would not relinquish power if they lo...Published: 31 May 2018 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Trudy Stevenson quits MDC
Lottie Gertrude "Trudy" Stevenson is a remarkable political survivor, appointed as Zimbabwean Ambassador to Senegal in 2009 during the GNU as a deployee of the MDC led by Welshman Ncube.A form...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 15:23hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa on cusp of Barrowian history?
The Gambia is a small river country, named after the river which cuts through its heart, the smallest country on mainland Africa, which is entirely surrounded by Senegal on one side and the coastline ...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 10:14hrs | 3 | by OP ED BY VIVID GWEDE
WATCH: Why are there so many pythons in Harare?
Snake expert Ben Vermeulen of Harare-based Reptile Rescue says he has been called in to remove nine pythons since January, and that python sightings are now much more frequent.Watch below, a s...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 09:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T: A tradition of political violence
As the pre-election season rolls on, the MDC-T leader, Nelson Chamisa continues to address people as both that party's leader and the MDC Alliance presidential elections candidate. He has so far held ...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 16:20hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Gukurahundi: Walking in the deathly shadows of Kigali and Banjul
Should the architects of the Gukurahundi atrocities committed in Matabeleland and Midlands face legal action in an independent court of law convened in Zimbabwe, Africa or abroad? On May 30, 2016, His...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 15:19hrs | 2 | by Tafi Mhaka
WATCH: ZBC reporter tells interviewee what to say on camera
A ZBC reporter who was caught on camera telling an interviewee what to say has been criticized by many people on social media.Zimbabwe Ambassador to Senegal and the Gambia, Trudy Stevenson on ...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 13:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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