After slamming the ‘evil’ West, Robert Mugabe seems to have opened the gates to ‘benevolent’ East for trade and investment in Zimbabwe. Of course Robert Mugabe had no option but to take help of China to retain power and survive the international sanctions against Zimbabwe. China was more than eager to step on the rich [...]

Either Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is already senile (that’s understandable at his ancient age) or he is really just a mouthpiece of his military junta and political cabal. He has been ranting and raving about the enemies of his state while turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the objective and sordid reality [...]

A team that is evaluating if Zimbabwe is accomplishing the international norms to avoid that the trade of diamonds feeds the conflict discovered that the military of the country are directly involved with the illegal mining and that the authorities perpetrated a horrible “violence against civil”, in agreement with the memo that the team gave [...]

During much of June, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Morgan Tsvangirai traveled abroad to seek aid for his ailing country. He received mostly warm support from the US and Europe. However, he failed to convince donors to come in with substantial aid to help Zimbabwe’s economy which is in ruins. The reason: aid givers are wary [...]

The Zimbabwean army, controlled by the political party of President Robert Mugabe, violently seized the diamond fields of the country last year, and used the illegal income to buy the loyalty of insubordinate soldiers and enrich party leaders, according to a report released yesterday by organization Human Rights Watch.

Zimbabwe’s government strongly denied the accusations in [...]

Zimbabwe received a jolt of shock when Morgan Tsvangirai’s wife was killed in a supposed car accident. Now it is rather clear and most believe the accident to be a murder organized by Mugabe’s henchmen. Mr. Morgan Tsvangirai is the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe and has received death threats from President Mugabe several times. The [...]

At last the coalition government is in place and power sharing has been worked out and ailing Zimbabwe finally gets a new sympathetic PM. It took rather a long time ever since the dramatic run-off which Robert Mugabe won by simply eliminating the opposition from the race. MDC was forced to withdraw from the final [...]

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s family is well known for holidaying in Hong Kong and other luxurious places around the globe. The First Lady of Zimbabwe, Grace Mugabe, apparently lost her temper and beat up photojournalists with the help of her bodyguard outside Hong Kong’s luxurious hotel.
Wonder why First lady didn’t want to be in media [...]

This is the current foreign exchange rate in Zimbabwe. To reduce the burden of bundles of currency notes to buy things worth few US dollars, Zimbabwe is introducing Z$100 trillion currency note and other trillion-dollar denominations. But will this move really help in tackling hyperinflation and failing economy?
As political crisis continues in Zimbabwe, economy seems [...]

In a more sinister turn of events, soldiers who couldn’t withdraw cash from an ATM machine in Harare went amok and looted bystanders and shopkeepers. The soldiers and the militia enjoy a great amount of freedom and strength and have been exercising their powers over Zimbabweans. Local people have been vocal about voicing their disappointment [...]