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Withdrawal of USAID funds threatens decades of progress, say experts, with cuts to research and shortage of mosquito nets putting thousands at risk across the countryZimbabwe’s efforts to control malaria have been dealt a huge blow as experts say the d…
After Eton and a successful career in the British Army, he became the go-to guy for military coups, he said. The rewards (and risks) were enormous.
Former SAS officer led a group of 70 who attempted to overthrow Equatorial Guinea’s presidentSimon Mann, an Eton and Sandhurst-educated ex-SAS officer, who led a botched coup involving Margaret Thatcher’s son to overthrow the government of Equatorial G…
Four ex-heads of US embassies in nations that swung from democracies to dictatorships say landscape eerily familiarThe US is treading the path followed by democracies that descended into authoritarianism and dictatorship, former ambassadors to countrie…
Step is requirement for restructuring country’s debt, including new IMF programmeZimbabwe has started to make compensation payments to white former farm owners, 25 years after Robert Mugabe’s government began confiscating land.The government paid $3.1m…
Nearly eight years after the coup that brought him to power, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is under threat from opponents within his governing ZANU-PF party, who have urged mass protests.
Zimbabwean former swimmer won majority in first roundSebastian Coe is third; Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr secondThe former Olympic swimming champion Kirsty Coventry has become the first woman to lead the International Olympic Committee in its 131-year his…
Jealous Mpofu wins Tusk’s ranger of the year award for his work with a maligned and misunderstood speciesWhen Jealous Mpofu was a boy, he overheard his father’s bosses talking negatively about painted dogs, wild African canines with distinct marble coa…
Masaya reportedly tortured and his body dumped on outskirts of Harare after being abducted while campaigningA Zimbabwe opposition activist has been found dead after he was abducted on Saturday during a political campaign just outside Harare, the Citize…
Several years ago, dozens of elephants mysteriously dropped dead in Zimbabwe, a landlocked country in southern Africa. Now, researchers finally know why. Over several months of 2020, 35 African elephant carcasses were discovered in the Kavango–Zambezi…