Police flood Harare’s streets in anticipation of protests on the eve of Southern African Development Community meeting.
President Mnangagwa launched initiative to foster healing over 1980s killings, but survivor communities are sceptical.
“Anything can happen.”
Revelations about multiple assets linked to the Mugabe family have triggered outrage weeks after an Al Jazeera exposé.
With a presidential election expected in July, government critics report clampdown on freedom of association, movement.
In 2022, Zimbabwe was ranked 137th on the World Press Freedom Index, seven places lower than the year before.
The independence celebrations were held outside Harare to promote inclusion but dredged up memories of repression.
Land reforms in the early 2000s were meant to readdress colonial legacies but elite citizens ended up benefitting more.
Traditional leader says former first lady broke local customs by burying Mugabe at his rural home.
Documents reviewed by Bloomberg News reveal the extent of services the bank provided Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed.
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A prominent journalist who exposed corruption is arrested, but the government alleges he was inciting violence.
People march in Harare calling on US, EU to lift sanctions on President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other top officials.
Zimbabwe’s former president has been buried in his rural village of Kutama, three weeks after he died in Singapore.
After three weeks of public debates over final resting place, government agrees for ex-president to be buried in Zvimba.
