As the political talks stutter, the economy continues to implode
and the regime is far from having 'total control'
The control freaks of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic
Front seem astonished that their diktats go unheard by
the world's stock exchanges. Yet when it comes to their personal
pockets, they show resource and ingenuity. The government's mudd...
Investigators are probing multimillion pound payments from Britain through secret accounts to a key ally of President Robert Mugabe
The three negotiating teams are to resume talks in South Africa on 3 August after a break to discuss progress with their respective parties. The original deadline for the installation of a new power-sharing government on 4 August will be missed. However, ...
As they drag out negotiations with the opposition, the ruling party's acolytes are hiding millions of US dollars in offshore accounts
China and Russia's dual veto of a draft sanctions resolution against Zimbabwe at the United Nations Security Council on 11 July took nostalgic diplomats back to the height of the Cold War. Britain, France and the United States backed the sanctions resolut...
The government sets tough terms for a power-sharing deal that might end the crisis
Foreign mining investors still drop cash into Zimbabwe's empty
bucket. Anglo American hit the spotlight in June with its
US$400 million Unki platinum project, to be run by its Johannesburg
Anglo Platinum subsidiary, in Zimbabwe's Great Dyke, the second...
With an eye to the succession, the top brass of Mugabe's
party are squabbling and squirming
The force behind Robert Mugabe's re-election campaign
was former intelligence chief Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Secretary for Legal Affairs of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, along with the military and security chiefs in the Joint
Oper...
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