Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has won a second and final term in office in an outcome rejected by the opposition and questioned by observers. Mnangagwa, who took over from longtime leader Robert Mugabe after a 2017 army coup, was widely expected to secure re-election despite the country’s continuing economic crisis, …
Read More »Zimbabwe’s dilemma over deadly elephant attacks
Tinashe Farawo had the grim task of delivering the mutilated body of a 30-year-old farmer who had been trampled to death by an elephant in northern Zimbabwe to his distraught family. It is something that Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) rangers have to do all too frequently as …
Read More »King Charles blocks Zimbabwe’s president’s request to attend funeral
King Charles III has blocked the president of Zimbabwe’s request to attend the funeral of his late mother Queen Elizabeth II. Read the letter denying president Mnangagwa’s request to attend the funeral below: President Mnangagwa in a letter expressing his condolence to the King for the passing of his mother …
Read More »Zimbabwe’s president Mnangagwa accused of rape
A 33-year-old woman has filed a police report in Queensland, Australia, accusing Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa of raping her when she was 15. Susan Mutami told police that Mnangagwa – then a cabinet minister – pursued her after meeting her during an interschools competition in 2003. She was in Form …
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