Zimbabwe

HOSEA MAPONDERA

The local businessman, who began his career as a junior [...]

UNION CARBIDE TO DROP CHROME?

Union Carbide could be on the point of halting the [...]

MINING SECTOR IS SPRIGHTLY

While the controversy over the government's land redistribution project (ION N° 574) has resulted in a slowdown of new investment [...]

BERNARD CHIDZERO

In an eighteen-page report submitted to the World Bank in Washington last week, Zimbabwe's finance minister put his name to [...]

ROBERT MUGABE

Zimbabwe's head of state will be the guest of honour [...]

Spotlight
SECOND WIND FOR ZESA ?

The Zesa Reform Programme (ZRP) that has begun under the aegis of the World Bank looks like leading to a major restructuring or even ultimately to what would be at least a partial privatization of Zimbabwe's electricity sector.

PART-PRIVATISATION FOR ZISCO

Zimbabwe has decided to sell off Z$3 billion (US$461 million) of its holding in the state enterprise Zimbabwe Iron and [...]

THE WORLD BANK REPORTS IN

As each year, the World Bank annual report rounds up its activities and analyses economic performances in the divers regions [...]

Exporters in Zimbabwe have halted their expansion project for Mozambique's [...]

HORTICULTURE TO GET EDF AID

The European Community recently made a grant of ECU 3.3 million (US$3.66 million) to Zimbabwe to finance the second phase [...]

FUNDS FOR THE RAILWAYS

Aid donors financing the rehabilitation of installations and equipment of National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) have worked out balanced accounts [...]

ADB LOAN FOR THE RAILWAYS

African Development Bank and its subsidiary African Development Fund (ADF) are expected to decide next week on a grant to [...]

TALKS ON MINING AND OIL

The British firm Europe Energy Environment is organising a conference in Cape Town on November 29 and 30 on the [...]

EDF International has won the contract, financed by the World [...]

GARFIELD TODD

The former prime minister of Southern Rhodesia, from 1953 to 1958, under British colonial rule, has defied the government of [...]

TRADE FLOWS WITH SOUTH AFRICA SHOW MARKED INCREASE

According to the latest statistics issued by the South African customs services, that for the first time contained official data [...]

BRUSSELS SEMINAR ON INTER-CONNECTIONS

One of the themes of a new seminar in Brussels [...]

TIMOTHY STAMPS

Zimbabwe's health minister Timothy Stamps caused ripples in Harare this week at the World Bank presentation of its annual development [...]

ENVIRONMENTAL AID FROM EC

The European Community has earmarked 4.6 million ecus (5.3 million dollars) from the 7th European Development Fund to finance a [...]