Africa Zimbabwe Chitsunge, chairperson of a local anti-sanctions pressure group Broad Alliance Against Sanctions, said the sanctions imposed on the country are illegal, with devastating humanitarian and economic impacts on the people
Africa Zimbabwe Authorities have ordered banks to stop lending with immediate effect to interrupt speculation against the Zimbabwe dollar and halt its rapid devaluation on the black market
Africa Zimbabwe Central bank data show the local currency has depreciated by 40%; the currency is quoted at 275,79 per dollar on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's website, up from 165,99 on Friday
Africa Zimbabwe Small shops selling solar panels and other solar energy products are increasingly appearing in the major cities; they are actually fake solar panels, a new market fuelled by the drought-related energy crisis that the government is struggling to combat
Africa Zimbabwe Government will send a team of pathologists to Mozambique in June to begin the exhumation and repatriation of more than 157 Zimbabweans who were swept away by floods from Cyclone Idai in 2019, to re-burial at home
Africa Zimbabwe The country has begun redistributing to aspiring farmers on a waiting list the unused land that was given to black farmers during President Robert Mugabe's reform in the early 2000s; the government will not take back productive farms
Africa Zimbabwe Parliament is debating an amendment to the Law on Private Voluntary Organisations that seriously threatens the right to freedom of association in the country, with human rights bodies concerned about the negative impact
Africa Zimbabwe Police in the weekend prevented opposition party leader Nelson Chamisa from holding a rally for supporters of his Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) ahead of by-elections scheduled for 26 March
Africa Zimbabwe Fifa suspended the country's football federation due to government interference; the country's federation was previously suspended by the Commission for Sport and Recreation, in November 2021
Africa Zimbabwe The main opposition figure, Nelson Chamisa, attracted thousands of supporters to his first political rally since forming a new party weeks ago, as the country prepares for elections postponed by the pandemic
Africa Zimbabwe Teachers' unions called a strike after rejecting an offer from the government, considered too low, which included a 20% pay rise, payment of part of wages in dollars, as well as subsidies on purchases such as cars and houses
Africa Zimbabwe The country's population is projected to be almost 17 million in 2022 according to the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat), which will be confirmed with the new 2022 census; in 2012 the population was 13 million
Africa Zimbabwe Numerous migrants, including a good number of women, are making their fortunes as entrepreneurs, doing economic progress in the country which is struggling with more than 90% unemployment, according to the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions