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A United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) special investigator, Frank Dutton, is coming to Harare this week to investigate allegations that UNDP vehicles were used to smuggle diamonds from River Ranch…

Five years ago Enos Nkala formerly the third most powerful man in ZANU-PF after Robert Mugabe and Edgar Tekere called on President Robert Mugabe to step down. Now!   “I am…

In October 2006 Former ZANU-PF strongman Enos Nkala called a press conference at his home. His message was that President Robert Mugabe was distorting the country’s history. He is what…

United Nations-owned African Management Services Company (AMSCO) has refused over the years to disclose its relationship with River Ranch Diamond Mine.  It admitted receiving payment from the mine but could…

The United States and the European Union has been fighting to stop the export of diamonds from Marange because these are “blood diamonds” and it is in breach of targeted…

Lending rates in Zimbabwe are still too high and are prohibitive to the productive sectors, central bank governor Gideon Gono says. This problem is compounded by the aloof attitude of some multinational banks that are not actively supporting the domestic economy and seem to be extending “illegal international sanctions on Zimbabwe”, he said.

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Zimbabwe's power-sharing government of President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is for real. Contrary to widespread sentiment, mainly propagated by a skeptical media that wanted nothing else but…

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi two years ago that the UK would not support the Zimbabwean government until President Robert Mugabe was gone, raising questions as to what the European Union will do next week when the sanctions are due for renewal.

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Zimbabwe is likely to enjoy political stability for the next 10 to 40 years even if the inclusive government collapses, a new study says.  The country will still enjoy this…

Zimbabwe’s inclusive government offers the only credible means of transforming the country and of delivering basic services to the people because there is currently no roadmap to credible and properly monitored elections, Britain’s Under Secretary of State for Africa and the United Nations, Henry Bellingham, said yesterday.

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