And when President Emmerson Mnangagwa thanked Russia's President Vladimir Putin for his offer of 50 000 tonnes of free grain at Africa summit in St Petersburg on 27-28 July he insisted that Zimbabwe was food secure but would accept it anyway...

Yet this initiative is better starred than its predecessors due both to the government's financial desperation worsened by tougher international conditions and Chissano's access to senior figures in the government including President Emmerson Mnangagwa...

And President Emmerson Mnangagwa's support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine spelt out on the sidelines of the Africa summit in St Petersburg on 27-28 July might also count against him (AC Vol 64 No 7 At the other end of geopolitics)...

Repressive measuresThree days earlier President Emmerson Mnangagwa had signed the Patriot Bill into law which criminalises any actions that the authorities judge to infringe the sovereignty and national interests of Zimbabwe...

This year President Emmerson Mnangagwa waited until the last moment before announcing 23 August as the date of the election compressing the time that parties had to choose their candidates before submitting the names to the nomination court on 21 June...

These deals enable President Emmerson Mnangagwa Chiwenga and other ZANU-PF leaders to cash in on the minerals booming in value thanks to the digital and electric vehicle industrial revolutions – especially platinum and lithium...

The latest row over patronage and opaque procurement in the government shows the widening rift between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy General Constantino Chiwenga and their attempts to favour their own supporters...

ELECTION DATE ROW ESCALATES Zimbabwe could be plunged into a constitutional crisis should Douglas Mwonzora leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai (MDC-T) win a court order compelling President Emmerson Mnangagwa to postpone announcing the date of elections due by the end of August...

All this matters if President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is serious about negotiating debt relief with the IMF and World Bank as the United States has vetoed any deal with Harare unless its governance criteria including free elections are met...

Meanwhile diplomats remarked on the irony that one of the few prominent African leaders to attend the ceremony was Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is campaigning for his country to be re-admitted the Commonwealth but resisting the reforms required to do so...

For a government so quick to accuse its opponents of malfeasance and detain them President Emmerson Mnangagwa's team has been curiously reticent about the investigation into gold smuggling in Zimbabwe launched by Qatar's Al Jazeera channel...

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is well aware of the vast potential for lithium exports and wrote in the Sunday Mail newspaper that he issued the export ban after officiating at the ground-breaking ceremony of the Sabi Star Mine in south-eastern Buhera...