Tendai Marima

The in­de­pen­dence cel­e­bra­tions were held out­side Harare to pro­mote in­clu­sion but dredged up mem­o­ries of re­pres­sion.

Zam­bia’s youth large­ly backed the new pres­i­dent-elect, and now they ex­pect him to ease re­pres­sion and eco­nom­ic cri­sis.

Africa’s last ab­solute monar­chy has for days been rocked by the largest pro-democ­ra­cy protests in years.

Thou­sands of peo­ple shel­ter in dis­place­ment camps with lim­it­ed food sup­plies across Cabo Del­ga­do fol­low­ing Pal­ma at­tack.

Zim­bab­we’s tourism sec­tor is es­ti­mat­ed to have lost $1bn in po­ten­tial rev­enue last year due to coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic.

As the coun­try marks 40th in­de­pen­dence an­niver­sary, its jour­ney to­wards rec­on­cil­i­a­tion and heal­ing is not yet over.

As po­lice scale up op­er­a­tions aimed at curb­ing coro­n­avirus spread, groups raise fears over pos­si­ble breach of con­duct.

Com­mu­ni­ties dis­placed by dev­as­tat­ing storm still liv­ing in dire con­di­tions amid fund­ing gaps for key re­con­struc­tion.

Shift­ing poli­cies on land re­form and food sub­si­dies by suc­ces­sive gov­ern­ments have con­tributed to the dire sit­u­a­tion.

As sup­port­ers of Mu­gabe mourned, the de­ci­sion to bury the for­mer pres­i­dent in pri­vate has riled many par­ty sup­port­ers.