The Latest Breaking News from Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe, Africa’s largest tobacco producer, opened its tobacco-selling season Wednesday, with a speech by the vice president and eager international buyers

As the sweltering morning sun beat down on them, about half a dozen young Zimbabwean women stacked green tobacco leaves into sheaves while another group, some with babies on their backs, loaded the harvested crop onto a tractor.

A recent move by Lebanon’s Central Bank (BDL) to offer to sell the cash dollar through its platform at the rate of LBP 70,000 has temporarily curbed the rapid collapse of the national currency. The price margins of cash trading in the parallel markets fell to around LBP 80,000 per…

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Since Russia’s invasion, many African governments have officially not taken sides. But for some, that may be changing.

Crusoe Newby was named after the Daniel Defoe castaway book character and has been travelling with his mum and dad since before he was born. Now the family share their adventures with fans on YouTube

Farm labourers in Zimbabwe are decrying colonial-era working & living conditions that they say still defines their jobs.

Son of late authoritarian ruler arrested over damage worth £10,000

When Zimbabwe’s finance minister Mthuli Ncube presented the national budget for 2023 to Parliament in November 2022, he placed high emphasis on a raft of initiatives designed to spur strong economic growth and unleash economic transformation. These included financing of infrastructure projects, education, health, value chains and other public investments.

Reports in Zimbabwe say he is spending more and more time in the troubled state as he tries to stay ahead of a major international manhunt for him and his gangster sons Daniel, 43, and 41-year-old Christopher Jnr.