Zimbabwe starts compensating white farmers 25 years after land seizures
Step is requirement for restructuring country’s debt, including new IMF programme Zimbabwe has started to make compensation payments to former white farm owners, 25 years...
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Kirsty Coventry elected first female president of IOC as Coe routed in vote
Zimbabwean former swimmer won majority in first round Sebastian Coe is third; Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr second The former Olympic swimming champion Kirsty Coventry has...
UAE becomes Africa’s biggest investor amid rights concerns
Activists alarmed at emirati companies’ poor record on labour rights and fear projects may fail to address environmental concerns The United Arab Emirates has become...
‘Climate-induced poisoning’: 350 elephants probably killed by toxic water
Satellite data analysis suggests algal blooms could be behind mass die-off in Botswana that sparked flurry of theories in 2020 More than 350 elephants that...
Church of England ‘directly responsible’ for John Smyth abuse in Zimbabwe, victim says
Rocky Leanders, then 15, was beaten with wooden paddle by Smyth at camp where boys were made to swim naked When John Smyth gave a...
‘Highly likely’ John Smyth continued to abuse young men in South Africa
Smyth moved to South Africa after he was barred from re-entering Zimbabwe, where he abused boys at summer camps The evangelical Christian barrister John Smyth...
Zimbabwe orders cull of 200 elephants amid food shortages from drought
Environment minister says country has more elephants than it needs while critics of hunt say they are a major tourist drawcard Zimbabwe will cull 200...
Zimbabwean president declares state of disaster due to drought
Emmerson Mnangagwa says country needs $2bn of aid as severe dry spell caused by El Niño afflicts southern Africa Zimbabwe has declared a national disaster...
Zimbabwe police arrest apostolic ‘prophet’ and rescue 251 children from compound
Man claiming to be a prophet arrested along with seven aides ‘for criminal activities which include abuse of minors’ Zimbabwe police have said they arrested...
Australian tourist had been missing in Zimbabwe for nearly a week before search began
The 67-year-old man, whose name has not been released, was travelling alone when he left a luxury lodge to travel to Victoria Falls national park...
