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...
Until Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel leant on them,
Munich-based security printers Giesecke & Devrient GmbH had
a lucrative contract to supply paper for Zimbabwe's considerable
demand for new currency notes. In direct competition with Britain's...
The determination of the military to retain power at all costs makes the 27 June election deadly and pointless
In Zimbabwe’s state-controlled media – the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (paradoxically modelled on the British Broadcasting Corporation but periodically purged), the Harare daily The Herald, and the Sunday Mail – a deadline may get you into trouble w...
It began with the refusal of Southern African governments to allow a shipment of Chinese arms to unload at their ports and cross their territory to landlocked Zimbabwe (AC Vol 49 No 9). Since then, regional criticism of President Robert Mugabe’s regime an...
No matter how President Robert Mugabe does his sums, the odds are against him if there is a credible rerun of the presidential election on 27 June
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