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A British newspaper says an organisation calling itself The Bra Bank is organising old bras and unwanted lingerie for women in remote villages in Zimbabwe.

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The Insider now has 700 stories in its archives all of which have not been featured on its front page. Readers can look at all of them without having to…

The World Federation of Diamond Bourses has called on members of the Kimberley Process to take the “essential and courageous decision” to allow Zimbabwe to export its rough diamonds including those from Marange because the KP’s indecision is about to cause irreparable damage to the industry.

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Ask any Zimbabwean, even a staunch ZANU-PF supporter, he or she will tell you that Robert Mugabe has overstayed. People might differ on what the way forward should be, that…

Bornwell Chakaodza has had an interesting career from government critic to Herald editor and on to Standard editor. Here is a story we wrote about him 12 years ago when…

Zimbabwe owes Britain’s Export Credit Guarantee Department 190.4 million pounds and has not indicated when it will repay the money, the Undersecretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Edward Davey, told the House of Commons yesterday.

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This is what some critics thought when then Minister of Lands Kumbirai Kangai compulsorily acquired more than 1 500 white-owned farms sending shock waves in the country’s economy but well-knowing…

Blessing-Miles Tendi would make a lot of enemies with civil society in Zimbabwe if his book: Making history in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe was widely available in the country.

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Zimbabwe thumped Canada and the West to win chairmanship of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development in May 2007. According to a cable just released by Wikileaks, Canada had vowed to lobby against Zimbabwe’s election even going to the extent to trying to persuade African countries to set aside their claim to the chair for the 16^th session of the CSD.

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We asked this question 12 years ago when then Standard editor, Mark Chavunduka, his reporter, Ray Choto, and the paper's managing director, Clive Wilson, were arrested and detained over a…