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The Zimbabwean government recently signed an agreement to pay 4 500 white farmers US$3.5bn. But the proposal to fund the exercise by issuing a sovereign bond is highly ambitious.

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed his deputy Constantino Chiwenga as the new health minister, tasking him with reforming a decaying health sector amid a rise in Covid-19 infections and strikes by health workers.

Zimbabwe has made headlines in recent weeks over claims of increasing violations against human rights and journalists being targeted.

A prize-winning Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker arrested at recent protests accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of holding its people in a repressive "chokehold" as they endured an economic emergency.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said that "dark forces" both inside and outside Zimbabwe "have tampered with" the country’s growth for "too long".

The nephew of Zimbabwean journalist Mduduzi Mathuthu is in hospital after he was allegedly abducted, beaten and tortured.

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned he would 'flush out' political opponents as rights groups reported dozens of activists had been arrested in a crackdown.

Nigeria's largest airline Air Peace has said it had laid off a number of pilots and cut salaries in order to cope with the impact of the coronavirus on its operations.

Tempers are raging at the Beitbridge border post between South Africa and Zimbabwe, where truck drivers claim that bribes of up to R1 000 are being extorted from those who want to cross the border.

There is still no word from the South African government on the growing number of reports of alleged human rights violations in Zimbabwe.

[USIP] Gunmen killed our children. We seek peaceful justice but cannot be sure it will happen.

[New Times] The Government has auctioned properties of at least 18 people and recouped a total of Rwf361 million from cases that it won in the last two years, The New Times can exclusively report.

[Shabelle] The Kenyan military said Tuesday it has launched investigations into circumstances in which its helicopter crashed in southern Somalia on Monday evening when ten of its troops were injured.

[Shabelle] Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has extended his deepest condolences to the public at large and in particular the family of Dr. Hawa Abdi who died in Mogadishu today.

[Nation] The High Court in Busia has acquitted five people, who were charged with the murder of six bouncers in Masebula village, over lack of evidence.

[Nation] The Supreme Court has dismissed a request by former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo to give new evidence in a case challenging his criminal trial in relation to fraudulent land transfer and acquisition.

[Nation] Individuals and businesses have until end of this month to apply for amnesty on defaulted taxes or risk seizure and auctioning of their property.

[Nation] Maternal mortality gains in limbo as mothers opt for traditional birth attendants fearing to contract virus in hospitals

[Brookings] Washington, DC -- Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration and Kenyan government launched trade negotiations in early July. Depending on the outcome of the negotiations, which were held virtually, the trade agreement could be the most significant development in U.S-Africa trade relations since the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) passed Congress in […]

[Seychelles News Agency] The Seychelles Ports Authority is now tendering out the main aspects of the Port Victoria expansion project and civil works which covers the south half of the port, said a top officer of the Ports Authority.