Zimbabwe Situation

Source: Police, prosecutors humiliated as teenagers, residents acquitted of kidnapping charges SEVEN Mutare residents who include some teenagers have been acquitted after standing trial on charges of kidnapping a ruling ZANU party supporter in the run-up to last month’s harmonised elections, in a major kick in the teeth of law enforcement agents and prosecutorial authorities. […] …
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Court Correspondent Kudakwashe Sihle was granted a peace order by the Harare Civil Court against her husband’s mistress Tendai Rusenza and the mistress’s sister Sandra Rusenza.  The two Rusenza women were ordered to maintain peace and desist from hiring people to vandalise Ms Sihle’s property.  Ms Sihle alleged that the Rusenzas were violating her peace. […] …
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  A Zambian man arrives at the Harare Magistrate Courts for alleged human trafficking, escorted by detectives. — Picture Lee Maidza Prosper Dembedza Herald Correspondent A Zambian yesterday appeared in court on two counts of trafficking Ugandans to Zimbabwe using them in his fraudulent activities in Zimbabwe. Kimbungwe Yub Ibrah (28) was facing two counts […] …
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Crime Reporter Murder cases involving gold panners and machete gangs continue to increase in Mashonaland West Province, prompting the police to relaunch Operation “Chikorokoza Ngachipere/ Isitsheketsha Kasiphele, and No to machete wielding gangs”, to thwart such activities. The development comes as a 22-year-old man was stabbed and killed last Friday at Cooperative Mine in Battlefields […] …
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  Steward Bank says Kashagi loans are helping to promote financial inclusion by providing access to credit to individuals and businesses. Herald Correspondent Steward Bank, a subsidiary of Ecocash Holdings, disbursed $2.8 billion to 903 000 individuals and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) under its digital micro-credit loan facility, Kashagi, in its 2023 financial […] …
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  Zimbabwe is expecting to produce 40 tonnes of gold this year from 35.3 tonnes last year Oliver Kazunga Senior Business Reporter ZIMBABWE’S gold production fell 15 percent to 19,3 tonnes in the first eight months of the year partly due to lack of funding by the small-scale miners to modernize operations. According to data […] …
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Source: Court had no right to interfere with government’s work, says Motsoaledi as he challenges ZEP decision | News24 Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi is applying for leave to appeal a High Court ruling that found his decision to end the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits “unlawful, unconstitutional, and invalid”. Lisa Hnatowicz Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi […] …
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Source: From kakistocracy to kleptocracy: Mnangagwa’s nepotism scandal – NewsHawks ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa has used a classic dictator’s handbook to appoint his sons into cabinet in a brazen act of patronage, nepotism and cronyism, with a cloud of doubt hanging over the ability of many of the newly appointed ministers to efficiently execute their […] …
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Situation Report in English on Zimbabwe about Health, Water Sanitation Hygiene and Epidemic; published on 18 Sep 2023 by IFRC Source: Zimbabwe: Measles Outbreak – Final Report, DREF n° MDRZW018 – Zimbabwe | ReliefWeb A. SITUATION ANALYSIS Description of the disaster From early April 2022, Zimbabwe was struck by a deadly national measles outbreak that […] …
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Source: Water shortage drives elephant migration from Zimbabwe Elephants on the move at Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, in May 2022. Large numbers of elephants from Zimbabwe’s biggest national park are moving to neighboring Botswana in a search for water, a spokesman said Monday.   “Many animals have and are moving from Hwange National Park into […] …
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