Regions / Africa / Zimbabwe

As the International Monetary Fund keeps pushing austerity, Zambian journalist Zanji Valerie Sinkala explores whether that’s really a solution to her country’s economic woes.

With the country heading towards a general election, the clampdown on press freedom is an attack on democracy itself. Busani Bafana reports from Bulawayo.

Report from Zimbabwe ahead of the 2024 elections by Busani Bafana.

Zimbabwean activists demand the repatriation of human remains, reports Stefan Simanowitz.

The assault on journalists is an assault on democracy. Chin’ono’s crime was using Twitter to criticize Zimbabwe’s government, writes Nanjala Nyabola.

Report from Zimbabwe by Wallace Mawire.

Richard Swift profiles Zimbabwe’s new leader.

Maina Waruru on a community without rights.

Tsvangirayi Mukwashi offers an unusual view of Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe.

‘Welcome to Zimbabwe (Land of contradiction)’

Can smallholders be more productive than agribusiness? It looks that way in Zimbabwe, which has broken up its big farms, and where growers have nearly matched production of their white predecessors, in fewer than ten years. Joseph Hanlon reports.

Aoife Allen describes how The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme is not doing enough to clean up the gems trade.

Back in the country after a two-month trip, Mgcini Nyoni is shocked to see the fear and hunger of his fellow-Zimbabweans.