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Zimbabwe will not benefit from the United States’ Africa Growth and Opportunity Act until it improves its governance and there is a return to the rule of law, two senior United States officials said this week.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai almost landed into troubled after Wikileaks released a diplomatic cable in which he wanted help from the West to bring about change in Zimbabwe because progress…

Where in the world would a company, which technically has no owner, make a hefty 1 377 percent increase in net profit in six months and still hope to do…

United States diamond trading company Rapaport has issued a trade alert that the South African diamond regulator is reportedly ignoring Kimberley Process “Zimbabwe sanctions” by allowing imports and exports of KP certified Marange diamonds.

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Governments must be freely elected and leaders must not overstay their welcome. The rule of law must not merely be enshrined in the constitution but must be inculcated in the…

Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Sachin Siv was told by Brazilian officials seven years ago that engagement with countries like Zimbabwe, Libya, Sudan and Cuba and not ostracism or expulsion was the wise course- a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks says.

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The government could be shooting itself in the foot. By harassing business and labour it could be sapping out the little confidence left among its nationals. And the central bank,…

Despite the catastrophic decline in the economy, soldiers and ex-soldiers have stayed unwaveringly loyal to President Robert Mugabe's government. The ZANU-PF party and its military wing have been fused from…

The death of former air force chief and black empowerment minister Josiah Tungamirai six years ago was supposed to have created political space for Emmerson Mnangagwa, but it looks he…

The Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee which comprises equal representatives of the two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change and the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front is the one that insisted that all outstanding issues within the Global Political Agreement should be implemented before any elections, South Africa’s Minister for International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said today.

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