Zimbabwe’s foreign minister will attend the Commonwealth summit this week in London, an official in Harare said on Monday, underlining the country’s international re-engagement since president Robert Mugabe’s fall. Mugabe angrily pulled Zimbabwe out of the Commonwealth bloc in 2003 after its membership was suspended over violent and graft-ridden elections the […]
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Murky Zimbabwe Airways deal: $100m ‘vanishes in aircraft purchase’, says report
The price of planes bought from Malaysia for a new Zimbabwe airline may have been inflated by up to $140 million, prompting a probe by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government, a private newspaper claimed on Friday. Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa and Transport Minister Joram Gumbo said on Wednesday the government had […]
Zimbabwe lifts ban on election monitoring by EU and US
Zimbabwe’s new government has set aside its long-standing ban on western observers’ involvement in the country’s polls, inviting the European Union and US to monitor this year’s crucial general election. The EU and US are both on a list of 61 countries and international bodies that will be officially invited by […]
ZEC to monitor media poll coverage
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is set to monitor the coverage of political parties by media outlets in the country towards elections later this year, a senior official has said. In an interview with ZiFM, a local radio station, on Monday night, Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Permanent Secretary, Mr […]