Zimbabwe ‘not A Poor Country’
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe insisted on Thursday that his country is not a failed state and accused the US of being fragile because of its economic dependence on China. Mugabe pointed to...
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Youth Leaders Join In the Fight Against Child Labour and Trafficking
Do you agree the youth in the world are a powerful resource for development? In Ghana four young people, Priscilla Sekyiwah Afful, Josephine Honore, Mia Nielsen and Emmanuel Yamoah are currently...
Anti-Mugabe Election Coalition Takes Shape In Zimbabwe
President Robert Mugabe's grip on power has faced little recent threat from Zimbabwe's splintered opposition, but efforts to forge a unified alliance in next year's election could test his supremacy....
Crocodile Eats South African Hunter
DNA tests on the carcass of a crocodile shot in Zimbabwe have confirmed that it contains the remains of a missing South African hunter, an investigator has told the BBC. Scott Van Zyl was killed last...
Zimbabwe DNA Tests ‘prove Hunter Was Killed By A Crocodile’
DNA tests on the carcass of a crocodile shot in Zimbabwe have confirmed that it contains the remains of a missing South African hunter, an investigator has told the BBC. Scott Van Zyl was killed last...
Nine African Countries To Participate At the Annual Africa Energy Forum In Copenhagen
African Ministries from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Gabon, Madagascar, Morocco, Rwanda and Zimbabwe have confirmed to attend the Africa Energy Forum (AEF)...
Zimbabwe’s Tsvangirai and Mujuru In Anti-Mugabe Alliance
Two of Zimbabwe’s best known opposition figures have agreed to form an alliance against President Robert Mugabe. Long-time Mugabe critic Morgan Tsvangirai and former Vice-President Joice Mujuru say...
Zimbabwe’s Tsvangirai and Mujuru In Anti-Mugabe Alliance
Two of Zimbabwe’s best known opposition figures have agreed to form an alliance against President Robert Mugabe. Long-time Mugabe critic Morgan Tsvangirai and former Vice-President Joice Mujuru say...
Zimbabwe Opposition Pledge Unity Against Mugabe
Zimbabwe's main opposition and the party led by the country's former deputy president Joice Mujuru on Wednesday signed a pact to work together to topple long-ruling President Robert Mugabe's party in...
Zimbabwe Schools Accept Goats For Fees
Parents in Zimbabwe who cannot afford school fees can offer livestock such as goats or sheep as payment, a government minister has said. The country’s education minister Lazarus Dokora told the...
We Are ‘masters of Our Own Destiny’ – Mugabe
Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, has said citizens are now masters of their own destiny thirty-seven years after attaining independence from the British. The 93-year-old was speaking at the...
Zimbabweans To Pay School Fees With ‘Goats and Sheep’
Parents in Zimbabwe can now pay the school fees of their children using livestock. That is the announcement from the country’s government. Zimbabwe’s Minister Lazarus Dokora has said that...
Meet Germany’s Forgotten ‘guest Workers’, From Africa
Long overshadowed by the more numerous and vocal Turkish "guest worker" community, Mozambicans who arrived in Germany decades ago still struggle to assert their rights in their adopted homeland....
More Than 100 Million People To Face Severe Food Insecurity
Despite international efforts to address food insecurity, around 108 million people in the world were severely food insecure in 2016. This shows a dramatic increase compared with the 80 million in...
Pocketful of Coins For BBC Reporter Amid Harare Bill Shortage
Zimbabwe prints its own version of the US dollar to ease cash shortages in the country The branch of my local bank in Harare had ran out of notes today, so they would only dispense $100 (£80)...
Death Toll Revised In Zimbabwe Bus Crash
Cross-border buses are popular among informal traders who travel to buy goods for resale A passenger bus accident on one of Zimbabwe’s deadliest highways, in the country's south-east, has claimed...
Meet the Security Man Who Wants To Be President of Zimbabwe
In a small cubicle in one of the hotels in Cape Town, South Africa, Paul Chimene is busily reading and taking notes in preparation for school the next day. He does this at 11 p.m. every day before he...
Ghana Institution of Engineers To Partner Government In Fight Against Galamsey
The Ghana Institution of Engineers (GhIE) has pledged to work closely with the government and relevant agencies to deal with the menace of illegal mining, popularly known as “galamsey”. The...
Bangladesh Skipper Mashrafe Quits Twenty20 Cricket
Bangladesh's limited-overs captain Mashrafe Mortaza announced on Tuesday his retirement from Twenty20 international cricket after he completes the ongoing two-match series against Sri Lanka....
6.5-Magnitude Quake Shakes Southern Africa
A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 struck the southern African nation of Botswana on Monday, US seismologists said, with the tremor felt in several neighbouring countries. The epicentre of...