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Zimbabwe’s street children: how to get them home and back in school

Zimbabwe’s government undertook a survey in 2023 to ascertain how many children were living on the streets of the country’s second biggest city, Bulawayo. The most recent numbers were from a similar 2015 survey, the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Welfare told reporters – and, in the intervening eight…

The Conversation

How secondhand clothes took Zimbabwe by storm – and hammered retail

The country’s clothes manufacturers are taking a beating from imported ‘preloved’ clothes and a struggling economy.

Al Jazeera

WhatsApp novelists use messaging app to write and sell books in Zimbabwe

Emerging authors and eager readers are finding more accessible and affordable ways to get their literary fix.

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‘SADC should speak out’: Zimbabwe activists face crackdown ahead of summit

Police flood Harare’s streets in anticipation of protests on the eve of Southern African Development Community meeting.

Al Jazeera

Sangomas with ring lights: Zimbabwe’s traditional healers take to TikTok

As a new generation of healers shares African spiritual practices on social media, critics say the two cannot mix.

Al Jazeera

The hidden dangers of Zimbabwe’s informal savings clubs

Community savings schemes provide support for many Zimbabweans but also put vulnerable people at risk of being swindled.

Al Jazeera

Zimbabwe’s illegal forex dealers use WhatsApp to find clients, evade police

Zimbabwe clamps down on black market trading it blames for devaluing its new ZiG local currency.

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‘Triple spending’: Zimbabweans bear cost of changing to new ZiG currency

Businesses, transport, government services reject old notes despite the unavailability of new bills until end of month.

Al Jazeera

What’s behind the latest US sanctions on Zimbabwe President Mnangagwa?

Have sanctions ever achieved much in Zimbabwe, and how do they affect the country’s economy?

Al Jazeera

Rural Clinic Offers Respite For Priced Out Zimbabwean Patients

Outside a hospital in rural Zimbabwe, scores of people wait patiently under trees or inside small tents for news of their loved ones.

International Business Times

‘They could have done more’: Zimbabweans slam gov’t anti-cholera campaign

Many Zimbabweans say the government is yet to tackle the cause of recurrent bouts of cholera in the nation.

Al Jazeera

‘Structureless party’: Has Chamisa led Zimbabwe’s main opposition astray?

Many accuse the ruling party of infiltrating opposition but say Chamisa’s cult of personality politics made it possible.

Al Jazeera

Zimbabwe nurses seek better conditions abroad but fear for patients at home

Health workers outside the country say they still check on their patients in Zimbabwe as its health sector deteriorates.

Al Jazeera

Aussie pilot Naqvi flying high in cricket's 300 club

Antum Naqvi, a Belgian-born Australian club cricketer, is eyeing a Test place with Zimbabwe after a record-breaking, first-class triple hundred in Harare.

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Al Jazeera

In Zimbabwe, a small publisher that helped launch big voices shuts down

In 25 years, the couple-run Harare-based Weaver Press published hundreds of Zimbabwean fiction and nonfiction titles.

Al Jazeera

‘Choiceless elections’: Zimbabweans cry foul before bizarre by-elections

Opposition figures and analysts say Zimbabwe’s political arena is being shaped to enforce a one-party state.

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Telling tales: Zimbabwe’s Weaver Press celebrates 25 years of championing truth-telling fiction

NoViolet Bulawayo is among authors to pay tribute to the independent publishing house that shook up the country’s literary scene

Evening Standard

What is cholera and how does it spread? Zimbabwe declares state of emergency in Harare

Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak began two months ago

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Zimbabwe declares state of emergency in capital Harare over cholera outbreak

The country's health ministry has recorded 136 suspected deaths and 6,685 suspected cases

Al Jazeera

‘Prosecution by persecution’: The Zimbabwean politician imprisoned 65 times

Human rights groups say Zimbabwean authorities are ‘weaponising the law to target opposition figures’ like Sikhala.

The Conversation

HIV-positive parents in Zimbabwe struggle to manage their children's education – study shows how

Over the past three decades researchers have explored various aspects of the impact of the HIV pandemic. One focus area has been children who have lost their parents to AIDS. Less attention has been given to children who are raised by parents living with HIV. This group has become much…

The Guardian - UK

Zimbabwe bans large gatherings as threat of cholera outbreak grows

Cases are rising in many parts of the country and critics are blaming chronic water shortages and poor sanitation systems

The Hindu

Indian mining tycoon Harpal Randhawa among 6 killed in Zimbabwe plane crash

Indian billionaire Harpal Randhawa and son killed in plane crash near Zimbabwe diamond mine; 6 dead, incl. 4 foreigners; plane experienced technical fault; RioZim-owned aircraft en route from Harare to Murowa diamond mine; local community and law enforcement managing aftermath.

WEKU

Zimbabwe's opposition alleges fraud in vote that extends governing party's rule

Zimbabwe's main opposition leader on Sunday alleged "blatant and gigantic fraud" in the country's election after President Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared the winner.

France 24

Zimbabwe's President Mnangagwa re-elected amid opposition claims of fraud

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been re-elected to a second term, the country's electoral commission announced late Saturday. The results immediately drew allegations of fraud from political rivals, with opposition leader Nelson Chamisa also claiming victory.

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