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Zimbabwe

Population: 16.48m
GDP: $34.41bn
Debt: 98.5% of GDP (2024)

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No chance, Mr President

Party officials and military commanders are ignoring President Mugabe's orders to surrender their farms

Several government ministers and senior military officers accused of grabbing farms are refusing to hand them back to the state, according to a new report on land reform ordered by...


Media attrition

After the government's closure of the Daily News, Information Minister Jonathan Moyo is turning his attention to the two remaining independent weeklies, the Sunday Standard and Zim...


War on England

Protests against the government's land reform programme are growing ahead of the publication next week of a new investigation into corruption headed by former Cabinet Secretary Cha...


Slow to go

Diplomacy, not urgency, is the Bush-Mbeki formula for regime change in Harare

United States President George W. Bush's quick tour of Southern Africa may have strengthened fellow President Robert Mugabe and it has certainly weakened Zimbabwe's opposition lead...


Get a move on

'It's the clock. The time for me is up... it's time to move on'. Thus Charles Utete explained his retirement in April. President Robert Mugabe, who at 79 is 15 years older, said hi...


Both sides lose

A week of strikes shows that the opposition lacks a plan and that President Robert Mugabe needs brute force to survive

Let him take his medicine!' South Africa's Foreign Minister Nkosazana Zuma told fellow diplomats after learning that opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had been detained after a w...


What's next?

A messy endgame looms unless government and opposition start serious negotiations

Zimbabweans have been thronging the banks in Bulawayo and Harare this week desperate for cash to stock up on necessities before the opposition's planned general strike. That Morgan...


Pius and power

Archbishop Pius Ncube is emerging as the most important and convincing opponent of President Robert Mugabe's government. Ncube, the Roman Catholic prelate for Bulawayo, criticises ...


Who's next?

The endgame may have begun in Harare but Mugabe is playing it his way

Three busy Presidents had a frustrating time when they visited their colleague Robert Mugabe in Harare on 5 May. Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and Bakil...


Votes and gaols

Barely noticed abroad because of the war on Iraq, on 31 March the Movement for Democratic Change regained some of the momentum it had lost with two by-election victories in its Har...


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