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...

So wide-ranging are the criticisms of the delimitation report that suggest they reflect the power struggle within ZANU-PF between President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa (ED) and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga...

Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi is happy to call himself one of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa few friends abroad...

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa still subject to western sanctions is almost certain to attend as is Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi...

President Emmerson Mnangagwa could lean on regional neighbours which have previously bailed out Zimbabwe but South Africa notoriously faces its own electricity challenges...