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Mnangagwa meets with opposition leaders, excluding MDC’s Chamisa
The meeting took place at Mnangagwa's farm in central Zimbabwe on Sunday, fuelling criticism that negotiations are one-sided.
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Zimbabwe president calls for dissidents in his party to be ‘flushed out’
The remarks came after exiled former ZANU-PF political commissar Savious Kasukuwere announced he was planning to return home and challenge Mnangagwa in 2023.
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Zimbabwe's Mnangagwa says no going back to dollarisation
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa said his government was pursuing difficult economic reforms, including measures to reduce the budget deficit to single digits.
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Zimbabwe’s doctors’ strike reaches 100 days mark
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government appeared hopeful that after 100 days, the doctors’ strike may finally be drawing to a close.
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Fired Zimbabwe state doctors reject offer to return to work
The doctors went on strike on 3 September to protest against poor wages, in some cases less than US$100 a month.
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Zimbabwe president U-turns on scrapping grain subsidies - state media
Half of Zimbabwe’s population needs food aid after a devastating drought across the southern Africa region, worsened by an economy expected to shrink by 6.5% this year.
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MDC's Biti urges Ramaphosa to intervene in Zimbabwe
MDC supporters gathered outside the party's headquarters in Harare on Wednesday, where they were dispersed by police using teargas and water cannons.
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Two years after coup, Zimbabweans grow more despondent
Unemployment in the country is at over 90% while the size of the economy has more than halved since 2000.
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After fanfare, new Zimbabwe banknotes fail to arrive
Banks visited by Reuters had yet to receive the new bills, and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor John Mangudya said he could not immediately comment on why they had not been distributed.
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Zimbabwe minister charged with corruption costing $3.7 million
His arrest comes as critics accuse the president of lacking the drive to carry out the political reforms needed to help Zimbabwe recover from its worst economic crisis in a decade.
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Zimbabwe government workers to strike over low pay
Zimbabwe is struggling with an economic crisis as President Emmerson Mnangagwa tries to overcome decades of mismanagement, sanctions and hyperinflation under former president Robert Mugabe.
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Zimbabwe sanction debate a diversion from 'murderous regime', says MDC
Hundreds in Harare and in Pretoria marched against the sanctions imposed 80 individuals including President Mnangagwa and 50 companies.
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Zimbabwe hikes average electricity tariff by 320% - energy regulator
Power cuts lasting up to 18 hours, together with a devastating drought, have been cited by the treasury as among the main reasons why the economy is set to contract by up to 6% this year.
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FIKILE-NTSIKELELO MOYA: We can’t airbrush Zuma’s failures from history
Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya says all those trying to cast former President Jacob Zuma as a hero should just stop.
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Zimbabwe's leader begs for patience to fix ailing economy
Zimbabwe's economy has been badly suffering for two decades but the last 12 months have been the worst decline in 10 years, characterised by shortages of basic goods such as fuel and electricity.
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'Family specifically didn't want Mnangagwa to preside over Mugabe's funeral'
Zimbabwe Independent editor Dumisani Muleya explains why Zimbabwe's late president was only buried over the weekend.
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UN rights envoy says Zimbabwe political, economic situation deteriorating
Clement Nyaletsossi Voule told reporters after a 10-day fact-finding visit that Zimbabweans were questioning the capacity of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government to bring about change.
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Mnangagwa gives go-ahead for Mugabe's body to be moved
There were reports of a brief stand-off between family members and police when the family decided to move Robert Mugabe’s body from his Harare mansion to his rural home in Zvimba ahead of his burial on Saturday.
