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State capture threatens mining reforms

A long-delayed bill aims to modernise the mining industry but may entrench elite control due to legal ambiguities and weak oversight

Zimbabwe’s parliament is mulling a plan to modernise one of Africa’s most mineral-rich economies – but the long-delayed Mines and Minerals Bill may consolidate rather than challenge the...


ZANU-PF succession fight goes public as schisms deepen

Vice-President Chiwenga accuses President Mnangagwa’s allies of looting US$3.2 billion from party coffers and demands arrests

The annual conference of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s (ZANU-PF), which veers between sycophantic theatre and high-stakes factional drama, is set to host a fiery confrontation when...


Boko risks all in a battle for De Beers

Rival contenders in the diamond industry are challenging Gaborone’s resource nationalism

When President Duma Boko announced in New York on 22 September that his government was preparing to take a majority stake in the De Beers diamond conglomerate by...

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Lazarus Chakwera fights to survive

Soaring prices, broken alliances and corruption reduce the President’s chances of winning re-election and favour his 85-year-old predecessor

Malawians go to the polls on 16 September in an election that could make President Lazarus Chakwera the third one-term president in the past 11 years. All the...


Insurgents regrouping as Chapo signs security pact with Kagame

TotalEnergies moves to restart its $20bn gas project behind a fortified green zone after 60,000 citizens displaced

Four years since the deployment of Rwandan and Southern African Development Community forces in July 2021, the security situation in northern Cabo Delgado remains fraught – contradicting Maputo’s...


Parliament tests Nandi-Ndaitwah’s anti-corruption vow

MPs are to vote on a call to investigate claims that Canada’s ReconAfrica broke accountability and environment rules

Canada’s Reconnaissance Energy Africa – ReconAfrica – first started drilling for oil and gas in the Kavango basin of north-eastern Namibia four years ago and has been mired...


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