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UK Minister backs Zimbabwe's Commonwealth re-entry bid
United Kingdom Minister for Africa, Lord Collins of Highbury, has welcomed Zimbabwe's ongoing efforts to rejoin the Commonwealth, commending the government's willingness to engage in reforms and dialo...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 07:24hrs | 280 | by Staff reporter
The ZANU-PF–Britain alliance is a self-serving bond that never served the people
The political theatre designed to deceive Zimbabweans seems never-ending.A few days ago, senior Zimbabwean officials and British nationals gathered in Harare to celebrate King Charles III's bi...Published: 13 Jun 2025 at 14:24hrs | 677 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa meets UK Minister for Africa
The United Kingdom's Minister for Africa, Lord Collins of Highbury, is scheduled to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa today at State House in Harare.The high-level courtesy call signals a cont...Published: 11 Jun 2025 at 17:56hrs | 728 | by Staff reporter
UK Minister jets into Zimbabwe for King Charles' birthday
United Kingdom Minister for Africa, Lord Collins, is expected in Harare this week where he will lead the early celebrations of King Charles III's 75th birthday on Wednesday, June 11.Although t...Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 08:31hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
UK Minister for Africa to visit Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom are set to deepen diplomatic and economic ties with the anticipated visit of UK Minister for Africa, Lord Collins, in what is shaping up to be a historic shift in relat...Published: 28 May 2025 at 12:16hrs | 679 | by Staff reporter
New UK visa rules hit hard
THE United Kingdom's Home Office has implemented new visa rules that ban overseas care workers and most overseas students from bringing dependant family members to the country.The measures wer...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 05:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa briefs Sadc leaders
President Mnangagwa provided updates on Zimbabwe's harmonized elections, characterizing them as peaceful, free, and fair, during discussions with four Sadc leaders. These engagements took place on the...Published: 27 Sep 2023 at 06:13hrs | 7 | by Staff eporter
SADC leaders to close ranks on Zimbabwe in New York
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is planning to hold meetings with southern African heads of state who are currently attending the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA78) in New York.T...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 13:24hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Colonial UK minister joins Zimbabwe poll criticism
The United Kingdom Minister for Development and Africa Andrew Mitchell has said Zimbabwe's election results tallying lacked transparency.Zanu-PF presidential candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa was d...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa breaks 23-year diplomatic stand-off with UK?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa's engagement and re-engagement drive has broken a 23-year-old diplomatic stand-off between Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom, a development that bodes well for bilateral relations an...Published: 10 May 2023 at 05:59hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's UK visit fails to thaw relations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa did not meet any high-level official of the United Kingdom administration when he visited London for the coronation of King Charles III.In contrast, the likes of R...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
UK minister says Zimbabwe not ready for Commonwealth re-admission
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's much vaunted re-engagement policy has once again been given a slap in the face, with the British parliament hearing that Zimbabwe is not yet at a level where it could be...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
A chain is as strong as its weakest link
The Bishop's heart always bleeds each time he thinks about Ethiopia, the land of brave men and women who valiantly frustrated Italy's imperial designs in the 20th century, making it difficult for colo...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:08hrs | 14 | by Bishop Lazarus
Spirit of Morrison Nyati still lives
IF you are as old as Bishop Lazi, you probably would never be able to banish the irrepressible memories of those chicken bus rides from the village to the city, or vice versa.However forgettab...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:41hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Glasgow trip a missed opportunity
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to Glasgow, Scotland, was a missed opportunity for Zimbabwe to meaningfully engage world leaders on climate matters, but instead he reduced the all-important summi...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 17:58hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's cocktail encounters and futility of summit diplomacy
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his publicists climbed Mount Everest celebrating inevitable chats with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and happenstance exchanges at a cocktail with Un...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 17:56hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Ecstasy as Mnangagwa returns from the UK
A large crowd of Zanu-PF supporters thronged the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport yesterday to give President Mnangagwa a thunderous welcome on his return from his successful trip to the Un...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa revels in Glasgow glory
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was all smiles Monday as he rubbed shoulders with the world's top leaders, taking pictures and sharing light moments on the global stage in what his allies claim it's a ma...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
EU ready to work with Mnangagwa?
The European Council, which includes all European Union Heads of Government that sets the EU agenda, is ready to work with Zimbabwe, including in the fight against climate change, Council President Ch...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa drools over COP26
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa is relishing his forthcoming visit to the United Kingdom for COP26 - the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference - the Zimbabwean leader will soon fly into Gla...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:44hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-sanctions charade finds few takers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-sanctions charade, including rallies and marches devoid of concrete political reforms, is senseless escapism from what the government ought to do to convince the We...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:05hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
UK minister confuses Zambia with Zimbabwe at Kenneth Kaunda funeral
James Duddridge, the UK's minister for Africa, appeared to confuse Zimbabwe with Zambia in a speech at the funeral of Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's founding president and one of Africa's last surviving lib...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 17:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe back on UK radar
THE House of Lords in the United Kingdom (UK) has raised a red flag over the deteriorating human rights situation in Zimbabwe and called for action on Harare after the arrest and detention of oppositi...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK minister for Africa condemns harassment of MDC activists
UNITED Kingdom Minister for Africa, James Duddridge yesterday condemned the continued harassment of opposition activists in Zimbabwe.In a tweet, Duddridge called on the Harare government to re...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Colonialist UK pushes to further isolate the Mnangagwa government
THE United Kingdom's unexpected move this week to impose sanctions on four Zimbabwean security chiefs for human rights violations - following a series of critical pronouncements in recent months - sig...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Investors shun Zimbabwe due to poor governance, says UK minister
THE United Kingdom's minister for Africa James Duddridge has said British investors are "shunning" Zimbabwe due to a poorly managed currency, abuse of property rights and other legal concerns....Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Twitter's decision to ban Trump is a threat to free speech
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticised Twitter for blocking US President Donald Trump's Twitter account, arguing that lawmakers rather than private tech companies should decide on the limits t...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 14:52hrs | 2 | by Thomas Colson , Business Insider US
Zimbabwe team rids Falklands Islands of landmines 3 years ahead of schedule
The Falklands Islands are now finally free of lethal minefields almost 40 years after the end of the conflict between the United Kingdom and Argentina during which thousands of exploding devices were ...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UK imposing sanctions on Zanu PF pressuring SADC to do same - is it too little too late
One of the biggest Zimbabwe foreign policy blunders the British government has ever made in the last decade was to believe Mnangagwa's foolish rhetoric that Zimbabwe had changed for the better followi...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 07:46hrs | 10 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa faces new sanctions from colonial master UK
THE United Kingdom has threatened to slap President Emmerson Mnangagwa with a new sanctions regime over the deteriorating human rights situation in the country and failure by the administration to dea...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
US, UK, EU, lie about Zimbabwe sanctions
The United States, European Union and United Kingdom vigorously pushed back on charges by President Emmerson Mnangagwa that sanctions are behind the economic collapse and the general poverty in the co...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK tells Mnangagwa to reform or no support
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's re-engagement process will stall if his government does not implement critical political reforms and bring to account securocrats accused of fronting an assault on human...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sacked UK Minister reflects inherent imperial hangovers
Speaking on 16 February 2001 on the need for European Unity, then President of the European Commission, Romani Prodi exclusively told Britain's The Guardian newspaper something that anyone interested ...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:33hrs | 9 | by Ranga Mataire
Fired UK minister 'wanted to invade Zimbabwe'
Theresa May's former Defence Secretary, who was sacked this week following a leak inquiry, was dismissed following concerns about his plans to 'invade Africa' and risk war with China.Allies of...Published: 05 May 2019 at 18:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets fresh chance from EU
In a rare piece of good news for President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his under pressure administration, he has been given a stay of execution by the European Union (EU), whose Parliament had proposed tou...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 12:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
More bad news for Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe should brace for more problems after the European Union (EU) Parliament proposed a fresh round of punitive sanctions this week against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government, followi...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 16:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions enable Zanu-PF to mishandle the economy'
As the United Kingdom is considering putting fresh names of Zimbabwean authorities under the European Union sanctions list for human rights violations following recent alleged killings by members of t...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 14:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UK minister sickened by horror Zimbabwe reports of rape by soldiers
A British member of parliament and junior minister has expressed her horror at reports of Zimbabwean women being raped by soldiers during a violent crackdown on protesters.Harriet Baldwin, MP ...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 14:46hrs | 1 | by African News Agency
Zimbabwe, UK talks security cooperation
Zimbabwe and Britain could soon restore security cooperation agreements that fell through after diplomatic ties nosedived nearly two decades ago, while the United Kingdom is open to supporting Harare'...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 06:49hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
UK reaches out to Chamisa
The United Kingdom on Friday reached out to MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa "regarding political developments in Zimbabwe."Chamisa has said he is "encouraged by the UK government's insisten...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 22:28hrs | | by Moyo Roy
UK government wishy-washy posturing on elections is helping ED escape 'illegitimate' condemnation
The people of Zimbabwe and all level headed people out there will be outraged if the EU and the other international elections observers election observers come out with a wishy-washy report comparable...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 07:32hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
UK Minister for Africa statement on Zimbabwe elections 2018
Following the recent elections in Zimbabwe, the Minister of State for Africa, Harriett Baldwin, said:"The UK was encouraged that Zimbabweans turned out in record numbers to vote in the electio...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 18:31hrs | | by Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Harriett Baldwin MP
Zimbabwe invited to Commonwealth Summit
Zimbabwe has been invited to the Commonwealth Heads of State Summit that begins in Britain tomorrow and ends next Sunday, marking the latest high-level sign of the thawing of relations between Harare ...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trump says Harare 'still a threat'
US President Donald Trump has reportedly "extended sanctions against Zimbabwe for another year", saying that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration "remained a threat to Washington's foreign po...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 14:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK Minister for Africa Harriett Baldwin visits Zimbabwe
LONDON - UK Minister for Africa Harriett Baldwin arrived in Harare on 1 February. This is the second UK Ministerial visit to Zimbabwe since President Mnangagwa was sworn in in November 2017 and Minist...Published: 01 Feb 2018 at 14:56hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
UK, China stampede to lead Zimbabwe recovery
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday met China's assistant foreign affairs minister, Chen Xiaodong, dispatched as a special envoy by Beijing days after Zimbabwe's new leader assumed office.A...Published: 30 Nov 2017 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Government of National Unity the way to go for Zimbabwe
A new dawn of Zimbabwean political history has taken a new twist with the arrival of British representatives who have seen a quick change of Zimbabwe's political situation.Efforts to re- engag...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 10:14hrs | 1 | by Leonard koni
UK is not 'bailing out' Zimbabwe
Lord Mandelson visited Zimbabwe on 14-16 February 2016. We wish to correct a number of inaccurate assertions regarding his visit that have circulated in the media and on-line.Lord Mandelso...Published: 22 Aug 2016 at 15:39hrs | | by British Embassy Harare
'Ex-UK minister met Chinamasa just before $1,1 billion bail-out plan'
FORMER United Kingdom Business minister Peter Mandelson met Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa in Harare five months ago where the Labour peer works sought to help the regime borrow $1,1 billion, ...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 07:12hrs | | by The Telegraph
Politicians should be held to account on aid: Humanitarians and development actors say
Humanitarian and development actors should develop a method to hold politicians to account for aid pledges, UK Minister of State for International Development Alan Duncan said."A promise is o...Published: 30 Mar 2013 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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