Hours before opposition leaders were set to launch their campaign on 28 October against President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's plan for a third term arsonists gutted the SAPES Trust conference hall in Harare abducting a security guard and padlocking the gates behind them...
Propelled by substantial financing and the removal of sceptical officials in key party structures the faction backing President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa consolidated its dominance over the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) at the 12-18 October conference in Mutare...
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In addition the president of SADC member Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa himself came to power in 2017 via a coup d'état while there is reluctance to side with an ally of the French government whose military plane airlifted Rajoelina out of Antananarivo...
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At a politburo meeting on 17 September Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga the party's Second Secretary presented a dossier charging the closest allies of President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa with grand corruption...
MNANGAGWA UPS THE PATRONAGE STAKES IN THE SUCCESSION Ahead of ZANU-PF's annual conference on 13-18 October President Emmerson Mnangagwa's camp is mobilising support for Resolution Number One – or ED2030 – a plan to postpone the 2028 elections to 2030 ostensibly to allow him to complete his development agenda (Dispatches 6/11/24 Mnangagwa's circle is lobbying for third term & AC Vol 66 No 1 Mnangagwa hunkers down)...
President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa insists the new rules will lay the foundation for what he wants to become the country's US$12 billion mining economy...
In April 2024 President Emmerson Mnangagwa reinstated him at the Ministry of Mines according to Africa Confidential sources following industry complaints about Zhemu's performance...
The president's favourite oligarch Kudakwashe Tagwirei is rapidly transitioning from shadowy financier to top public figure – usually wearing the signature striped scarf in national colours introduced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa after the 2017 coup (AC Vol 58 No 23 The crocodile snaps back & Vol 58 No 24 Hopes and fears for the new old guard)...
Top officials in the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front may revise that view if Britain's current Labour government under Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy follows through on its 180 degree turn on policy towards President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's regime in Harare...
These include closing the fiscal financing gap improving transparency in the ‘willing-buyer willing-seller' exchange rate system and – most critically – strengthening the governance framework of the Mutapa Investment Fund established in 2023 under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's purview...
After seeing President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa on 9 June Maliszewski said the IMF ideally would like to see a merger of the official and parallel exchange rates for the local Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency...
TAGWIREI ADDS LAND TO HIS GROWING PORTFOLIO One of the greatest threats to the credibility of the Emmerson Mnangagwa government's land tenure plan is its politicisation...
Britain is relaxing some strictures: it has dropped sanctions on arms exports to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government but European Union diplomats are taking a tougher line...
Despite accusations of electoral fraud and massive corruption against the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front President Emmerson Mnangagwa's wife Auxillia has been invited to a summit in London of ‘Africa's most influential women who are not only driving transformative change but also championing sustainable futures' according to the organisers of the First Ladies of Africa Impact and Resilience Summit (FLAIR) on 17 and 18 June at a four-star hotel in London...
Her brilliant career Auxillia Mnangagwa née Kutyauripo is an ambitious politician in her own right who married President Emmerson Mnangagwa in November 2017 the year he seized power from President Robert Mugabe...
The anticipated resignation of the Second Vice-President Kembo Mohadi presents President Emmerson Mnangagwa with a chance to consolidate his power base as dissent grows...
' Security rules when Mnangagwa replaces deputy Mohadi As succession politics heat up within the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) President Emmerson Mnangagwa is showing his usual skills of political micro-management as he plans to extend his grip on power...