Chris Muronzi

Since Rus­sia’s in­va­sion, many African gov­ern­ments have of­fi­cial­ly not tak­en sides. But for some, that may be chang­ing.

Ahead of the 2023 polls, there are con­cerns that Zim­bab­we’s eco­nom­ic woes could spill over.

Zim­bab­we’s bak­ers are los­ing staff and prof­its as Russ­ian in­va­sion of Ukraine dis­rupts glob­al econ­o­my.

Some Zim­bab­weans crit­i­cise the late monarch for fail­ing to ‘pro­mote the in­ter­ests of Africans in the colo­nial era’.

Un­like their West­ern coun­ter­parts, African lead­ers are be­ing cau­tious in char­ac­ter­is­ing the con­flict in Ukraine as war.

Elec­toral com­mis­sion’s ap­point­ments of peo­ple re­lat­ed to par­ty stal­warts has trig­gered fears of elec­toral mal­prac­tice.

Pres­i­dent Mnan­gag­wa is re­port­ed­ly des­per­ate to shed some of the lega­cy eco­nom­ic prob­lems his ad­min­is­tra­tion in­her­it­ed.

Pub­lic health work­ers and oth­er civ­il ser­vants are de­mand­ing salaries in US dol­lars as in­fla­tion hits 132 per­cent.

In 2022, Zim­bab­we was ranked 137th on the World Press Free­dom In­dex, sev­en places low­er than the year be­fore.

Ex­perts say a se­ries of mon­u­men­tal eco­nom­ic mis­takes has led to acute un­em­ploy­ment and un­eth­i­cal re­cruit­ment in Zim­bab­we