The anticipated resignation of the Second Vice-President Kembo Mohadi presents President Emmerson Mnangagwa with a chance to consolidate his power base as dissent grows...
' Security rules when Mnangagwa replaces deputy Mohadi As succession politics heat up within the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) President Emmerson Mnangagwa is showing his usual skills of political micro-management as he plans to extend his grip on power...
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Multiple economic failures are ramping up opposition to President Emmerson Mnangagwa who has faced recent protests demanding his resignation...
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube have to face harsher global conditions particularly US-China tensions which may undermine demand for Zimbabwe's exports...
The 31 March protest – in the form of sporadic demonstrations across the country and a national stayaway – unleashed a fresh wave of anger against President Emmerson Mnangagwa from within the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) the military and sundry opposition groupings...
SHUFFLING AND FACTIONS Facing mounting pressure from dissenting factions President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made further leadership changes this month to consolidate power...
His clout stems from his financial ties to President Emmerson Mnangagwa who was sanctioned on 4 March 2024 under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act for corruption and human rights abuses...
' But many believe it was a response by the military to growing political ructions over President Emmerson Mnangagwa's plans to extend his rule beyond the end of his second term in 2028...
The hopes of Ncube and President Emmerson Mnangagwa that a Staff Monitored Programme will be approved by April 2025 look ambitious...
On 28 January President Emmerson Mnangagwa hosted ‘inventor' Maxwell Chikumbutso at State House to demonstrate a ‘self-powering vehicle'...
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The rift between factions in the Zimbabwean army as well as veterans of the 1970s war of liberation and President Emmerson Mnangagwa appears to be broken beyond repair (AC Vol 65 No 23 Mnangagwa takes on the army)...
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The failure to sustain the launch of Zimbabwe's latest local currency – and the macro-economic consequences of that – will haunt the country and Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidency in 2025...
Bush in 2003 but then used the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to sanction 11 political business and security leaders including President Emmerson Mnangagwa his Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga as well as three companies for corruption and human rights abuses (AC Vol 65 No 9 Washington targets Mnangagwa for rights abuses and corruption but sends mixed messages)...
Facing challenges to his authority from the army which installed him in 2017 and his campaign for a third term in disarray President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed Lovemore Matuke one of his closest allies as Minister of State Security on 19 October...