In September 2021, the Zimbabwean government introduced a facility for citizens to access US dollars at selected bureau de change in the country. This was in a bid to improve access to forex in a time of hyperinflation. To curb abuses an individual could only get $50 maximum per week.
It’s been one year since George Floyd died at the hands of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, sparking a series of online and offline protests in the US, and globally, against police brutality and racism. The moment gave further impetus to BlackLivesMatter, a Twitter hashtag-turned movement which was born in 2013 after the shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager in Florida.
A recent announcement that Zimbabwe’s wildlife agency plans to sell the right to shoot 500 elephants this year has revived a bitter debate over the role of hunting in the country’s public parks, which are reeling from a loss of tourism revenue during the coronavirus pandemic.
In the early days of Covid-19, people from Zimbabwe to Tanzania turned to home remedies for a disease about which little was known. But now, even as African countries begin rolling out vaccine programs, many could still stick with traditional treatments.
As world powers tussle to influence politics and elections in Africa, they have taken to social media, targeting African users with misleading information.
It was back in 2017 when Tolu Olowofoyeku, Hamid Ibrahim, and Fikayo Adeola, friends from Nigeria and Uganda, established Kugali as pan-African creative company. The comic book collection they came up with was born out of a desire to tell modern African stories—now it’s set to reach a much wider global audience than they could have hoped with a comic book.
Amazon is planning to generate its own electricity to run through the grid of South Africa’s struggling state-owned power utility Eskom.
Zimbabwe’s spiral into economic chaos and uncertainty over the last decade has left the country with few functioning industries and an over-reliance on imports of nearly everything from food and furniture to building materials and even toothpicks.
One of the biggest challenges for governments, public health authorities and ordinary citizens around the world will be coping with the overwhelming amount of daily information about the scale of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
Zimbabwe is mourning the death of a young star TV journalist Zororo Makamba soon after he tested positive for the Covid-19 virus in Harare on Mar. 23.
Zimbabwe is considering giving land back to white commercial farmers effectively reversing a two-decade old controversial policy to reclaim land from the descendants of European settlers and others.
South African legendary musician and founder of a choral group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Joseph Shabalala, who played a significant role in popularizing Zulu traditional music around the world died, Tuesday morning (February 11) at a hospital in Pretoria aged 78.
Zimbabwe and China this week signed a currency swap deal aimed at strengthening trade between the two nations.
Victoria Falls, known locally as Mosi-oa Tunya, (“The Smoke that Thunders”), has seen its water levels slow to a relative trickle this dry season as drought ravages the region due to the impact of climate change. The drought, which already threatens the livelihoods of regional farmers, could also hurt the tourism industries in Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Zimbabwe’s central bank has lifted its ban on mobile money to cash transactions after three days of public outcry and criticism even as the government continues to struggle to contain the country’s economic crisis.
Zimbabwe’s biggest mobile operate, Econet Wireless is having Tesla batteries installed at its base stations around the country as a backup to electricity shortages currently hitting the country.
On Saturday morning (Jul. 20) local time Zimbabweans experienced a system blackout on Econet Wireless, the country’s biggest telecoms operator after a significant power outage.
While Zimbabwe’s central bank is trying to make the case for a respectable value for its three-month old currency the Zimbabwean Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGs) dollars against the US dollar, local mobile operators are showing the RTGs’ true value in, well, real time.
Zimbabwe’s latest plan to compensate white commercial farmers who lost land during the fast track Land Reform Program 19 years ago has run into trouble.
Oliver Mtukudzi, the musician fondly known as Tuku, has died at the age of 66.
In the wake of nationwide internet shutdowns, ordinary Zimbabweans are circumventing censorship through VPNs.
United States businesses and investors made more foreign direct investments (FDI) in Africa than counterparts any other country last year. These US entities increased the number of American FDI projects in Africa by 43% to 130 in 2017 nearly twice the next country, according to EY Global’s 2018 Africa Attractiveness report .
A few years ago, a Canadian living in Nairobi took advantage of the East Africa’s only ice rink venue at the Panari Hotel in Nairobi and helped establish a hockey program. That program eventually led to the creation of the Kenya’s first ice hockey team called Kenya Ice Lions.
Tanzanian billionaire Mohammed Dewji who was kidnapped earlier this month was freed on Saturday (Oct. 20) after more than a week missing.
