Zimbabwe

  • Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has gifted his ZimbabweAN counterpart a Mil-38 presidential helicopter, according to Zimbabwe’s ministry of information. The gift will be delivered soon, the statement posted on social media said. President Emmerson Mnangagwa is attending the Russia-Africa Summit in St Petersburg along with other African leaders. Russia also pledged to provide free grain…

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  • Baboon breaks into a home for breakfast, gets jungle justice

    Residents of Old Magwegwe suburb in Zimbabwe were left in shock on Monday morning when a stray baboon entered one of the houses where it had a quick breakfast – ravenously eating bread, bananas and tomatoes which were in the fridge. The daring baboon was first spotted at a house near Ntshamathe Primary School before…

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  • Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed General Constantino Chiwenga, the former army chief who led a coup that ended Robert Mugabe’s 37-year rule, as one of his two deputies in ZANU-PF, the country’s longstanding ruling party. Image: Constantine Chinwenga Presidential press secretary George Charamba said in a statement on Saturday, that  long-serving state security minister…

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  • Citizens of the United Kingdom who are resident in Zimbabwe have been advised to remain indoors and stay clam amid threats of violence and rumors of coup d’etat in south African nation. The UK embassy in Zimbabwe wrote in a Twitter post: ‘Due to the uncertain situation in Harare, incl. reports of unusual military activity, we…

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  • A non-governmental organization has alleged that Western interests in the mining and sale of Zimbabwe’s diamonds, is the cause of its internal crisis. According to research by a global development NGO, a powerful clique in the military and political sectors have hijacked and are currently exploiting Zimbabwe’s prized natural resource against rules and regulations set by…

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  • In what appears to be a case of “everyday for the thief and one day for the owner,” a South African big-game hunter was killed last Monday in far away Zimbabwe. Image shows the big-game hunter Theunis Botha (Right) and his partner. According to AFP, the trophy hunter suffered a painful death but was “lucky” to…

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  • A mom and son have pleaded guilty before a court of law for shamelessly engaging in sex at a shopping mall. For their incestuous act, both of them have been sentenced to 18 months, reports confirm. The offending mother and son are from Zimbabwe. A court heard last week that the Chinhoyi woman who has…

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  • Zimbabwe‘s president Robert Mugabe issued warnings to the United Nations on Saturday, saying that the African Union will set plans in motion to form a splinter group with countries such as Russia, China and India if the U.N. Security Council did not include members of his continent next year. Image: Robert Mugabe The 92-year-old president…

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