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US imposes sanctions on ICC Judges

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has strongly condemned the recent announcement by the United States administration imposing new sanctions on Judge Gocha Lordkipanidze of Georgia and Judge Erdenebalsuren Damdin of Mongolia. These lat…

Published: 22 Dec 2025 at 21:08hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF not sweating over Trump's travel ban on Zimbabwe

Zanu-PF has brushed aside the United States' partial travel restrictions on Zimbabwe, saying the ruling party is unfazed by President Donald Trump's move to tighten entry requirements for travel and immigration.Zimbabwe is among 12 African…

Published: 19 Dec 2025 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter

South Africa raids US's Johannesburg refugee centre

The United States government has sought explanations from South Africa following the arrest of seven Kenyan nationals at a centre in Johannesburg processing US-bound refugee applications.State Department principal deputy spokesperson Tommy…

Published: 18 Dec 2025 at 13:02hrs | | by Staff reporter

US announces policy shift on engaging Zimbabwe

The United States has announced a significant transformation in its relationship with Zimbabwe, signalling a shift from decades of donor-dependent engagement to a partnership centred on trade, investment and policy cooperation.US Ambassado…

Published: 11 Dec 2025 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter

US Congress moves to repeal ZDERA sanctions on Zimbabwe

The United States has formally begun legislative processes to repeal the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (ZDERA), a sanctions law in place since 2001 that has limited Harare's access to international financial support for near…

Published: 02 Dec 2025 at 11:38hrs | | by Staff reporter

The social implosion of American society!

The Biden administration allowed 13 million immigrants into the US, who would support them had they been re-electedI was surprised, when reading a report from Zimbabwe Statistics (ZimStat) that 43%of men between 15 and 45 have remained sin…

Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 12:51hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka

US to drop billions of flies on Mexico and Texas

US authorities are preparing to release billions of flies from airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to stop the spread of a dangerous parasite, the Associat

Published: 04 Jul 2025 at 15:26hrs | | by Staff reporter

Democrats are trying to fool Americans about Kamala!

The allegories and stories we were taught at school were supposed to teach us something about life and the real world.In one of the masterpieces of all time, Mark Antony addresses Brutus, a conspirator who has just taken part in the murder…

Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 12:02hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka

The US does not cease to amaze

In a terrible case of the pot calling the kettle black, the US government is shamelessly CRIMINALISING a Russian media house RT for allegedly attempting to influence the 2024 US presidential election in favour of Donald Trump by allegedly …

Published: 05 Sep 2024 at 08:47hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo

Why Donald Trump's support has been growing!

My friends in Europe and in Africa ask me the perennial question. What makes for Donald Trump's longevity in American politics? And why are the Democrats trying their best to lock him up in a  jailhouse to prevent him from being on th…

Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:59hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka

Zimbabwe sanctions review. . . Devil is in the detail

ON March 4, 2024, United States President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 14353, which somewhat shifted the US' sanctions regime on Zimbabwe.But what exactly has changed?The devil is in the detail.In a letter to Congress (as per requireme…

Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:23hrs | | by Tawanda Musarurwa

Countries under illegal US sanctions must unite against Washington

Yes, it is very possible for Zimbabwe, China, Russia, Cuba, Iran and all other countries under illegally imposed United States sanctions to formerly gang up and fight Washington.There is power and strength in numbers. There is a pool of wi…

Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:45hrs | | by Joseph Meta

US diplomat outlines an ambitious vision for Zimbabwe

BOTTOM LINE- The US Embassy in Harare has identified the potential for Zimbabwe to become a growth hub for Southern Africa.- This is a curious conclusion to draw given the fact that Zimbabwe currently ranks near the bottom of the DHL Globa…

Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 18:33hrs | | by Michael Walsh

US foreign policy and the Zimbabwe dollar!

In my life journey, my three years stay in Jamaica was probably the most traumatic and most revealing as to how the imperialists work.I am, therefore, surprised that Mthuli Ncube and his handlers are either ignorant of that part of history…

Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 07:37hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka

The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide domination

The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide dominationAn African PerspectivePart 1South Africa will host the 15th BRICS Summit from 22nd-24th August 2023, with the theme;"BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Mutually Accelerated Growt…

Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 17:50hrs | | by Ian Beddowes

Zimbabwe not adversary of United States

Zimbabwe's unrelenting pursuit for self-determination has seen the Southern African country at loggerheads with the Americans who have a penchant for interfering in the internal affairs of other sovereign countries.To give a clearer and mo…

Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:15hrs | | by Mapozho Saruchera

Why is debt tough in poor countries than US?

The debate on African development has been trapped between mismanagement by its leadership and those who argue that Africa is rising but its progress is waylaid by conditions it found itself in upon joining the global community at independ…

Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 05:09hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo

No to politisation of operating spaces

THE Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (Viset) is disturbed by the reports of politicisation of operating spaces on a piece of land adjacent to the traffic lights at Malvern and Chitungwiza roads in the Hopley area.T…

Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 05:00hrs | | by Viset

Zimbabwe's sanctions a smokescreen

LAST week, the United States updated targeted sanctions against Zimbabwean individuals and entities responsible for committing grave human rights abuses, undermining democracy, or contributing to corruption on a massive scale.The targeted …

Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 04:58hrs | | by Michelle Gavin

US attacks Zec over reforms

THE United States (US) embassy has urged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to implement electoral reforms recommended in the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (Zidera).The US imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe in 2001 under Zid…

Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 10:43hrs | | by Staff reporter

Biden admits that sanctions on Russia don't work and they make USA poorer

President Biden on Thursday made two big admissions about the US-led economic sanctions on Russia. The first is that the sanctions will lead to food shortages for many countries other than Russia, and that this is simply the price that Ame…

Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:00hrs | | by Ryan McMaken

China opposes sanctions for good reasons

One month after the Ukraine crisis broke out, China and an increasing number of like-minded nations, particularly developing countries, have voiced objection to unilateral sanctions by United States-led Western countries.The reasons are cl…

Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Zhang Yunbi

Sanctions on Russia expose West's double standards

Sanctions, whether targeted or not should be considered a crime against humanity, their  impact is like that of a full-fledged war.Sanctions have the capacity to destroy a nation's infrastructure, its economy, but most of all they are…

Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Prosperity Mzila

Zimbabwe Communist Party says to the USA, NATO and their allies hands off Russia!

Russia, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, has challenged the right of the USA to implement regime change through the use of extremist groups, terrorism and media manipulation and then establish military bases in the territory of its …

Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:46hrs | | by Zimbabwe Communist Party

Britain and the USA gave Putin the idea of invasion, by doing this in Iraq, Libya, Serbia etc

In the long-ago summer of 2010, I found myself in the beautiful harbour of Sevastopol, surveying the rival fleets of Russia and Ukraine as they rode at anchor in the lovely Crimean sunshine. One great fortress was adorned with banners proc…

Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 08:45hrs | | by Peter Hitchens

Look no further than Zimbabwe's constitution

OVER the last 19  years, the United States has imposed targeted financial sanctions against select members of Zimbabwe's ruling elite for undermining democratic processes, abusing human rights, or facilitating corruption.Then, as now,…

Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:30hrs | | by Molly Phee

The paradigm of war and interests

The unbalanced informational diet from western media outlets makes it seem so ordinary, normal, and even natural that President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, is the real devil in all this.Western spies, pundits and scholars are frantically…

Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena

US Embassy sweats to save Chamisa's sinking ship

The United States Embassy in Harare has reactivated its propaganda machinery ahead of the forthcoming by-elections slated for March 26.After a notable lull in propaganda tweets since the departure of the disgraced former Ambassador to Zimb…

Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:40hrs | | by Hosia Mviringi

Mnangagwa must court Chamisa to end crisis

THE situation in which Zimbabwe finds itself is very bad to say the least, as this reminds the citizens of the 2008 hyper-inflationary era.Already signs of hyperinflation and disorder are clearly visible. It now demands a cool head and hum…

Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 05:41hrs | | by Mai Ruru

When will Africa wake up from economic slumber?

THE Chinese bamboo is an amazing tree. Its seed stays underground for five years without germinating, but when it does, it grows considerably big in one week.What is important is not how long it delays, but how fast it grows.Don't give up …

Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 05:26hrs | 43 | by Anon

Zimbabwe moving in cycles

ZIMBABWE is reeling under the effects of bad leadership and awful ruling Zanu-PF party governance.With what is happening under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rule, it would not be surprising if Zimbabwe becomes the country with Africa's wo…

Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 05:26hrs | | by Mai Ruru

Brace for the worst under Mnangagwa

THE crushing of dissenting voices by the Zanu-PF government is just, but a tip of the iceberg compared to what is to come under the new dispensation, especially as the 2023 elections draw nearer.While most of us ululated and heaved a sigh …

Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 05:26hrs | | by Chief Chiduku

China vs USA: In the battles over lowly Zimbabwe, it is what Zimbabweans want that is important

There are a number of new stories that are emerging about the role of China in Zimbabwe. In the past, the Chinese Embassy would have been less robust in defense of its bilateral aid to Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean government, given its re-enga…

Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:23hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

Suffocating enablers of Zimbabwe's vision is the new plot

When the European Union and its big brother, the US, imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe, the central object as the then US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Chester Crocker put it, was to make the economy scream so as to separat…

Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 08:15hrs | | by Tafara Shumba

Catching up with Lovemore Majaivana

IT was quite refreshing to be able to speak to Lovemore Majaivana again after 13 years. False rumours had begun to do the rounds that he was dead.In 2008, we boarded the same flight from Harare. I was going to England while he and his chil…

Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:32hrs | 8 | by Fred Zindi

Time for US to reset relations with Zimbabwe

THERE is no better time for the United States to reset relations with a foreign country than at the change of administration.While US President Joe Biden will no doubt have a busy agenda, a key priority should be how to re-engage with sub-…

Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 06:03hrs | | by Marc Holtzman

Sanctions hurting innocent Zimbabweans

ECONOMIC sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the United States and its Western allies do not really affect the rich and powerful as some within the opposition ranks want us to believe.As long as the US continues to use the punitive measures o…

Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | | by Worried

Trump hammers nail into coffin of US's fake democracy

WE all knew it was coming, and now it is here: an attempted coup. There is no other way to describe what US President Donald Trump did in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.Standing in the East Room of the White House, the room where Frank…

Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:08hrs | | by Lowenstein

US and its Allies barking up the wrong tree

ZIMBABWE is under attack from the West through the use of proxies in the form of the MDC Alliance, Lawyers for Human Rights, cheque book journalists, Civic Society Organisations (CSOs), Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and other labou…

Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 07:50hrs | | by Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda

Zimbabwe under siege once again

 IT'S like deja vu - we have been here before! Zimbabwe is once again in the spotlight with the West, its local quislings in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change fronted by Mr Nelson Chamisa and their civil society surrogates…

Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 08:08hrs | | by Editorial - chronicle

US regime change in Zimbabwe getting brazenly silly

Some of us were not surprised because there was really nothing to be surprised about! When Job Sikhala announced his party would remove constitutionally elected President Mnangagwa before 2023, we knew he was a mere brave messenger, the ow…

Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 06:39hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe

Accountability, Trust will Determine Success of President's Reform Agenda

In the late morning of August 1, 2018, I was in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office with then United States Senator Jeff Flake, one of the sponsors of the Zimbabwean Democracy and Economic Recovery Act amendment, listening to the Preside…

Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 20:43hrs | | by Brian A. Nichols

Botswana: A base for future US military control of Southern Africa

The Zimbabwe Communist Party is seriously concerned about the continuing links between the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) and Africa Command (AFRICOM) of the United States Army.We were alerted by an article in the South African online milita…

Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 19:05hrs | | by Zimbabwe Communist Party

US blocks Cyclone Idai aid

The Japanese religious movement, Soka Gakkai Foundation is failing to forward its US$10 000-00 donation to Cyclone Idai victims, citing the unilateral sanctions on Zimbabwe by the United States, Harare Post can exclusively reveal. Informat…

Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 08:56hrs | | by Gondai Kamumango

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 Washington, DC.On May 7 to 8, the US Depar…

Published: 29 May 2019 at 07:03hrs | | by Pearl Matibe

US must come clean on Zimbabwe sanctions

There is this common tactic by the West to mislead the world by creating a false spoor in order to hide some of their evil machinations. It is unfortunate that Zimbabwe is such a victim when we come to the case of illegal sanctions imposed…

Published: 13 May 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Patriot

US universities welcome Zimbabwe students

SHORTLY after my arrival in Zimbabwe 10 months ago, I met two young Zimbabweans - Panashe Muriro and Tinashe Maparura.Both students were in the nascent stages of applying to study at American universities and were working closely with the …

Published: 11 May 2019 at 13:57hrs | | by Brian A. Nichols

Africa doesn't need this thing called Africom

Back in the village, the best men are known to ring-fence their interests and defend them to the last stain of their blood. There, the best man is he who, against all odds, crafts a policy that underpins his interests and then structures t…

Published: 10 May 2019 at 05:54hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe

Zimbabwe's path to prosperity

ON April 3, I gave President Emmerson Mnangagwa a letter from my government conveying the heartfelt sympathy of the American people for the lives lost in Cyclone Idai. I also announced that the American people had donated $2,6 million in a…

Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 12:51hrs | | by Brian Nichols

Govt use of violence on its own people is tragic

Continued from last weekWhile Mnangagwa's rhetoric on issues such as land reform, human rights, rule of law, improving the business climate and reducing corruption was all positive, there was little actual action behind the words. Some Zim…

Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:13hrs | | by Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield

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Anthony Joshua in stable condition after SUV smashes into parked truck

Midlands records bloody Christmas as seven murdered in four days

Silobela man stabbed to death after refusing to share beer

Man dies after alleged poisoning incident following break‑up

Zim Journalist vanishes, sells laptop in Mozambique

Fake US$20 note lands Plumtree beer lovers in jail

ZANU-PF joins country's security agencies over Guruve serial killer manhunt

Plumtree man axes friend in beer dispute

Truck driver kills nine‑year‑old boy in Mazowe accident

Plumtree man kills patron in Boxing Day bar stabbing

Zimbabwe closes 2025 with a dramatic economic turnaround

Youths step in as flooded Gwanda bridge exposes ageing infrastructure

Brothers kill neighbour in Christmas Day fight

Kamativi lithium mine undergoes global responsible‑mining audit

Soldiers arrested for robbery spree in Fort Rixon

CID officers arrested for stealing exhibit vehicle at police camp

Man remanded after raping goat and escaping custody

Nyangatayani brings Christmas cheer to less privileged with hampers

Mandizha Plaza hosts Christmas party for villagers

Abandoned to Christmas poverty: AMH staff given US$50 after 11 months without pay

Illegal miners clash over sex worker, one dead

Mnangagwa begins annual vacation, VP Mohadi and Chiwenga to act in rotation

Teacher fined for assaulting colleague over pit

More killings reported in Guruve

Ingwebu beer truck swept into Nkankezi River in Insiza mishap

Good Samaritan fatally stabbed while rescuing teenager from rapists

Man kills wife over infidelity suspicion as mother‑in‑law watches

90% of Bulawayo water samples test negative for faecal coliform: BCC

Our Ndebele heritage destroyed, Zipra liberation legacy stolen: PAMU

Bulawayo Mayor meets Catholic Bishop Pius Ncube

US imposes sanctions on ICC Judges

Chamisa begging for dialogue

Storm destroys prison roofs at Whawha

Armed robbers hit Bulawayo homes in coordinated spree

Applications open for 2026 MultiChoice talent factory programme

ZACC investigating Kwekwe City Council

Councillors raise alarm over Gwanda Lithium Mine operations

Scottland FC CEO Ronald Moyo in road accident

City unmasks rogue ex-employee extorting motorists in Harare CBD

Chivayo capturing army, police, and prisons

Mnangagwa adviser says empowerment funds not for Christmas

New-look Zimbabwe border a hit with tourists

Richmond weighbridge nears completion despite fire setback

Transvaal to invest US$1bn into RGM airport cargo village

Plumtree Bor­der Post starts oper­at­ing 24 hours a day

Zimra signals u-turn on monthly tax clearances after business pushback

Bulawayo records spike in new STI cases

Inmate escapes from Harare Central Prison

Zimbabwe issues 30-day ultimatum for foreign investors in reserved sectors

Mnangagwa's Unity Day speech

Lupane State University students win innovation prize

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Anthony Joshua in stable condition after SUV smashes into parked truck

Chief Mutasa dies

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Midlands records bloody Christmas as seven murdered in four days

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