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July 23, 2019
Zimbabwe Quells Rumors of VP Constantino Chiwenga's Health

Mutodi said the government decided to share information about Chiwenga's health condition to tame the rampant speculation over his whereabouts.
July 19, 2019
Zimbabwe Football Fan Hitch Hikes from Cape to Cairo for AFCON

Alvin Zhakata, 32, got the honor after hitch-hiking from Cape Town, South Africa, to Cairo, Egypt, where the AFCON games are taking place – a journey that took him 51-days – just to support his home team, the Warriors.
June 15, 2019
Zimbabwe President Says US Dollar to Cease Being Currency of Transaction

“The US dollar cannot anymore transact in the country ... If you go to the UK, with your US dollar, or you go to Zambia, or you go to South Africa nearby, with your US dollar or your Euro, you cannot transact in any hotel, or in any restaurant, or in a shop ,,,"
May 14, 2019
Zimbabwe White Farmers Anticipate Compensation, Return to Land

About 860-white farmers have applied for compensation, but only a handful of those considered to be in “financial distress,” will get first preference of the annual RTGS$53-million, the local Zimbabwe currency, allocated for compensation.
April 25, 2019
Cyclone Idai Reverses Zimbabwe Gains in Fight Against Malaria

Mberikunashe explained that “Cyclone Idai, promoted the breeding ground more, because there was more rain, destruction of homes which we had sprayed, thereby exposing people, to more mosquito bites and malaria as a disease.”
April 24, 2019
Zimbabwe Draws Criticism for Assisting Burundi's SADC Bid

Burundian Foreign Minister Ambassador Ezechiel Mbigira met with Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Wednesday, to seek support for admission into the 16-member Southern African Development Community or SADC.
April 12, 2019
Sharp Differences Emerge in Zimbabwe Over Compensating 4,500 White Farmers

"We are not looking for consequential payment which would make the bill much much higher, but I guess US$9 and a half billion is what the composite figure for land and improvement has been done by professional evaluators on our side."
March 20, 2019
Zimbabwe President Visits Cyclone-Hit Area, Death Toll Expected To Rise

“We gave a figure of 98 of our compatriots deceased. We expect that figure to rise because we hear reports that there are bodies that have been detected in this place and that place.
March 18, 2019
Cyclone Idai Claims 82 Lives in Zimbabwe, Death Toll Set to Rise

Local government minister July Moyo in an exclusive interview with VOA warned that the number of fatalities is likely to rise.
March 07, 2019
Zimbabwe Govt Defends $500,000 Deal With U.S Company Lobbying for Sanctions Removal

“The current illegal sanctions regime loses Zimbabwe a lot of business, retards development and also comes with other social costs … We will do everything in our power to have them removed.”
January 24, 2019
Death of Music Icon Oliver Mtukudzi Unites Troubled Zimbabwe

Internationally acclaimed Zimbabwean musician, philanthropist, and UNICERF Goodwill Ambassador for Southern Africa Oliver Mtukudzi who united the nation in life is now uniting the troubled Southern African country even in death.
January 19, 2019
Suspected State Security Agents Kidnap Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni Masaraure

President of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) Obert Masaraure was kidnapped last night by alleged state agents at his Harare home.
January 17, 2019
Zimbabwe Govt, Opposition Trade Barbs Over Business Shutdown, Violence

“The party is aware of subversive activities by certain individuals, political parties, civic and business organizations in pursuit of the regime change agenda.”
January 03, 2019
Crippling Zimbabwe Doctors' Strike Forces President Mnangagwa to Cut Short Leave

"I have cut short my leave to be in immediate and active consultation with the Acting President in resolving the situation in the Health Sector."
November 06, 2018
49 Africans And Others to Observe United States Mid-Term Elections

Zimbabwean Solomon Bismarck Bobosibunu is part of the 49 observers observing the elections at the invitation of the State Department.
October 05, 2018
Zimbabwe Court Orders State to Pay Human Rights Defender Mukoko $150,000 for Illegal Arrest, Torture

“This outcome will not make up for the scars inflicted on me but it will contribute to the healing process while emboldening all those who may still be pursuing justice against the excesses of the state, including those who suffered a similar fate like mine, who are yet to get justice ..."
October 03, 2018
Zimbabwe Home Affairs Minister, Police Chief Ordered to Compensate Victim of Police Brutality

A Zimbabwean court has ordered Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema and Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga to pay more than US$13 000 in damages to 64 year-old Lillian Chinyerere as compensation for the pain she suffered in 2016 after some anti-riot police officers assaulted her
September 27, 2018
Mnangagwa’s Second Republic Mirrors Mugabe On Foreign Policy At UN General Assembly

"... It (UN speech) had no groundbreaking substance and was rather pedestrian. Nothing innovative or interesting, run-of-the-mill issues made all the more tedious by an uncreative and poor delivery.”
September 26, 2018
Political Analysts Say Mnangagwa Not Generating Political Buzz Like Mugabe at UN General Assembly

“The rest of our African leaders are puppets of the West and feel that demanding for their space threatens their relations with the super powers.”
September 24, 2018
Zimbabweans in New York Sing National Anthem at Meeting with President

Zimbabweans in New York observed the National Anthem ahead of a meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly.

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