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India backs Zimbabwe's UN Security Council seat bid
India has officially endorsed Zimbabwe's bid for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the 2027 to 2028 term, bolstering Harare's campaign for enhanced global re...Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 14:46hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe eyes UN Security Council seat to improve relations with the West
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has indicated that, if Zimbabwe is successful in securing a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), he will leverage the position to improve and ...Published: 30 Apr 2025 at 07:23hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe officially launches bid for UN Security Council seat
Zimbabwe will formally launch its campaign for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the 2027–2028 term, following Cabinet approval of its bid strategy, Information,...Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 19:36hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
An 80-year-old Geza should have known better! Thank you, citizens, for your wisdom!
It is desperation to hope for a successful revolution championed by Geza, fronting his boss Chiwenga. The demonstrations yesterday were a complete debacle. I said this before in one of my articles abo...Published: 01 Apr 2025 at 18:37hrs | 2120 | by Nomazulu Thata
South Africa totally correct to 'relocate Taiwan' out of Pretoria
The brouhaha around the forced relocation of the Taipei Liaison Office from SA's capital Pretoria to Johannesburg - approximately 50 km southward - is completely misplaced.In 1997, SA cut dipl...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 09:13hrs | 1222 | by Abbey Makoe
Call for reparations: A mere excuse by failed African leaders!
As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) kicked off this week in Samoa, the topic of reparations for slavery and colonialism has once again been thrust into the spotlight. Sever...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:31hrs | 281 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The sanctions lie: How Zimbabwe's ruling elite is misleading the nation
As Zimbabwe moves towards the so-called "SADC Anti-Sanctions Day" on the 25th of October, the need arises again to unpack the shameful lies spread by the ruling establishment about these measures....Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 16:57hrs | 536 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Netanyahu orders UN to evacuate Lebanon peacekeepers
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres withdraw UNIFIL peacekeepers from southern Lebanon, adding that by remaining there they are "providing...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 15:33hrs | 642 | by Staff reporter
What will Zimbabwe do on the UN Security Council without a foreign policy?
Zimbabwe is campaigning to be elected as one of the non-permanent UN Security Council members for the period 2027-28.Yet, since the overthrow of President Robert Gabriel through a military cou...Published: 30 Sep 2024 at 09:58hrs | 491 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa addresses UNGA
In an address delivered to the United Nations General Assembly, President Emmerson Mnangagwa called for collective global action to create an inclusive, just, and sustainable world built on solidarity...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 09:51hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gains support for 2027 UN Security Council bid
Foreign Affairs Minister Frederick Shava has announced that Zimbabwe's bid for a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) seat in 2027 has received backing from both the African Union (AU) and the South...Published: 17 Sep 2024 at 06:53hrs | 865 | by Staff reporter
India to support Zimbabwe Commonwealth, UNSC bid
India has pledged to lobby for support towards Zimbabwe's bid to re-join the Commonwealth and for a seat as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. This was stated by Mr...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 11:24hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
Illegal regime change in Zimbabwe already happened in 2017!
Recent utterances by President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have raised an issue that has bedeviled Zimbabwe for the past few decades. In his wild alle...Published: 13 Jun 2024 at 22:23hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Transcript of 'Russia-Zimbabwe talks' between Putin and Mnangagwa
The penchant for frivolous bluster in Zimbabwe's public discourse has once again reared its ugly trappings after the widespread circulation on social media platforms of a 2.42-minutes video clip poste...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 08:37hrs | 33 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zanufication of the ANC on
AS South African general elections approach, the country's governing ANC is increasingly undergoing a further Zanufication process as it openly accepts offers of help from Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF wh...Published: 19 May 2024 at 11:52hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Unilateral sanctions are not illegal!
IT was so laughable listening to Information minister Jenfan Muswere fuming over US targeted sanctions on some Zimbabweans.I could easily tell that he was trying his best to please his boss, P...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 05:14hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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 says US partial sanctions removal on Zimbabwe is nonsense
THE recent partial removal of sanctions on Zimbabwe by the United States of America is "nonsense" and can only become meaningful if these illegal sanctions are removed in totality, President Mnangagwa...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 05:07hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to intensify lobby for UN Security Council seat
ZIMBABWE will take its lobby for a United Nations Security Council seat to the African Union (AU) when the continental bloc meets in February, President Mnangagwa has said.The Southern African...Published: 21 Jan 2024 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Palestinian Ambassador to Zimbabwe's mother killed in Israeli attack
PALESTINE Ambassador to Zimbabwe Dr Tamer Almassri's mother has been killed in Khan Younis city in the Gaza Strip following an attack by Israeli forces.The killing of Ambassador Almassri's mot...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 05:25hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
EU, US sanctions hit Zimbabwe's agric sector hard
Since the final stage of the Cold War, the use of sanctions as a "soft approach" in international diplomacy gained pre-eminence among states that seek to influence the perception and behaviour of othe...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 06:19hrs | 3 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Zimbabwe elected as vice chair of Sadc
Zimbabwe has been elected as vice chair of the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) after a Heads of State and Government meeting in Angola, which is the new chair of the regional bloc....Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mounts global bid for UNSC seat
Zimbabwe has launched a global campaign to secure a seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as a non-permanent member, with the country's candidature likely to be endorsed by the African Un...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:19hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe applies for UN Security Council seat
THE African Union (AU) Executive Council has received Zimbabwe's application for consideration to sit on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as a non-permanent member, with the continental body...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:08hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Bow out gracefully, respect voters
IT was refreshing to hear Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu telling United States President Joe Biden that, "Israel does not make policies guided by pressures from abroad." This was after Bide...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:25hrs | 3 | by Mbuso Ndlovu
Charumbira pushes for quick implementation of Africa free trade area
Pan African Parliament (PAP) President Chief Fortune Charumbira has jolted the legislative continental body's committees to prioritise review of their work plans and ensure that activities, aimed at f...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 16:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga meets Swiss president
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday met Swiss President Alain Berset to whom he delivered a message from President Mnangagwa, as well as discussing about strengthening of economic cooperatio...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 06:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sanctions similar to genocide
Political analysts have described the illegal sanctions as akin to a soft genocide and have refuted claims by the United States of America that the embargoes were targeted on few individuals.P...Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 07:21hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
US removes 17 Zimbabweans from sanctions list, but country remains under sanctions
THE United States government has today removed 17 Zimbabweans from the illegal sanctions list while adding four people and two companies, as the clarion call for total and unconditional removal of the...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in ambitious UN Security Council bid
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is planning a whirlwind tour across the world as Zimbabwe launches an ambitious bid to become a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in 2027....Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:36hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bornfrees4ED calls for the removal of sanctions
BORNFREES4ED, a newly-formed Zanu-PF affiliate whose membership is drawn from young people born after 1980, has joined the fray in calling for the unconditional removal of illegal sanctions imposed on...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 19:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Chinese consider Zimbabwe as second home'
Chinese nationals living in Zimbabwe now regard the country as their 'second home' and vouch that no slander or smear can undermine thectraditional friendship between the two countries.Speakin...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 14:47hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Are African leaders incredibly daft or deliberately pretending unaware why Zimbabweans are truly suffering?
The past week has been eventful as far as calls for 'sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe should be removed', by various, mostly southern African leaders.Firstly, it was the South African President C...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa condemns xenophobia
President Mnangagwa is using his visit to New York to engage investors and other Heads of State and Government as he champions the twin policies of engagement and re-engagement, as well as "Zimbabwe i...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We're a friend to all, an enemy to none'
ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE, HIS EXCELLENCY, DR E. D. MNANGAGWA, AT THE GENERAL DEBATE OF THE 77TH SESSION O...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 05:50hrs | 14 | by Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe sets sights on UN Security Council seat
ZIMBABWE has presented its candidacy for an African rotational slot as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for 2027-2028, and now awaits the authorisation of the African Unio...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Biden angry at Ramaphosa after South Africa abstains from UN Russia vote?
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa held telephone talks Friday with United States President Joe Biden, a day after the continental powerhouse abstained from voting on a resolution suspending Russ...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 08:27hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
What Rwanda did to bring real reconciliation after brutal genocide is exactly what Zimbabwe refuses to do
The international community today, commemorates the beginning of one of the darkest, most horrific, and barbaric incidents in world history - the Rwanda genocide of April 7 to July 15, 1994, in which ...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 19:03hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Anti Zimbabwe sanctions crusades heat up in SA
THE legal case, in which a South African-based anti-sanctions lobby group is suing United States President Joe Biden over the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (Zidera), has escalated with ...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Black students in Ukraine subjected to racism
I was awakened by a loud sound. I looked out through the window from my 18th floor room and saw thick black smoke coming up I could not see where was it coming from. I then heard people screaming and ...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 08:12hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Anti-sanctions crusades heat up in SA
THE legal case, in which a South African-based anti-sanctions lobby group is suing United States President Joe Biden over the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (Zidera), has escalated with ...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 17:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US extends Zimbabwe sanctions after Russia/ Ukraine vote
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's re-engagement drive suffered a major setback yesterday after United States President Joe Biden extended sanctions imposed on the country by another year under the cover ...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
US recalls official memo that hammered nations for being 'in Russia's camp'
The release of a strongly-worded instruction was an "error," according to the State DepartmentThe US has recalled a diplomatic cable that instructed its envoys to tell their Indian and UAE cou...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Russia's legitimate demands on security should be taken seriously'
Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday elaborated on China's basic position on the Ukraine issue.Wang also had an in-depth exchange of views on the situation in Ukrain...Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UN Security Council proves greatest threat to world peace and security
As the Russian Federation launches a brutal invasion of its neighbor Ukraine, in a clearly barbaric and brutal attack against another sovereign nation - the question is, where is the United Nations, w...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 20:06hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Putin warns that Moscow's response will be 'instant' if anyone tries to take on Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "military operation" in Ukraine's Donbas region.He made the declaration in a televised speech at the same time as the UN Security Council was implo...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions cost Zimbabwe over US$42 billion in revenue
Allow me to welcome you to this unique and inaugural Sadc wide anti-sanctions Indaba which is being held under the theme "Zimbabwe a friend to all and an enemy to none". This statement is premised on ...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 06:57hrs | 2 | by Dr Simbarashe Mumbengegwi
Unpacking ZIDERA, atrocities of sanctions
It is without doubt that sanctions are a crime against humanity, an unfair treatment of race against race, nation against nation, the strong against the presumably weak, all with the intention to crea...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:38hrs | 11 | by Takasununguka Ziki
Mnangagwa sees silver-lining in Covid-19 dark cloud
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has called for equal access to Covid-19 vaccines saying although the pandemic has caused major setbacks all hope was not lost. In a pre-recorded address to the United Nations Gener...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe should refuse to repay colonial debt
THE Zimbabwean government is currently engaging with its creditors in order to reduce its external debt burden.Economic watchers argue that the country would be justified in repudiating the de...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 10:56hrs | 2 | by Kudakwashe Matiza
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