Zimbabwe

ROBERT MUGABE

The Zimbabwean President carried out a ministerial reshuffle on 3 [...]

USHEWOKUNZE FIRED

Energy minister Herbert Ushewokunze has lost his post in a government shuffle announced by president Robert Mugabwe on July 3. [...]

EMERGENCY DROUGHT AID

The International Development Association (IDA), a World Bank affiliate, was expected to agree last week, to a loan of 110 [...]

SERIOUS RESHUFFLE ON THE CARDS

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe announced on June 26 that the ministry of political affairs would be closed within the coming [...]

DESTINATION WASHINGTON

Apart from the large delegation of African National Congress (ANC) lawyers from South Africa and three members of the Ethiopian [...]

Initial processed data from prospection work carried out by Mobil [...]

CONTRACTS SIGNED FOR RENOVATION OF THREE POWER STATIONS

The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) recently awarded ABB Stal, [...]

TRADE UNION TENSION

A large anti-riot squad was deployed on June 13 in Harare, Bulawayo and in several other towns in Zimbabwe to [...]

PARIS VYING FOR ECONOMIC POSITION

During a recent visit to Zimbabwe, the director of external economic relations at the French finance ministry, Jacques Desponts, called [...]

According to initial findings, oil and gas prospecting operations in [...]

SCANDINAVIAN CONTRACTS

Development Today, an Oslo-based monthly newsletter on development aid supplied by the Nordic countries, draws up in its latest issue [...]

A FRENCH MP'S VIEWPOINT

French MP Pierre Victoria, who is a member of the National Assembly's Commission on Finance, General Economy and Planning, published [...]

CONTRACT HANGING WITH PARIS

During his visit to Harare last May, the head of France's Directorate of External Economic Relations (DREE), Jacques Desponts, announced [...]

SYNTHETIC DIESEL OIL PROJECT

As Zimbabwe presses ahead with the appraisal of coal bed methane reserves in the south east of the country, Africa [...]

SCANDINAVIAN CONTRACTS

Scandinavian companies recently won contracts in three countries. In Zimbabwe, [...]

EDGAR SANSOLE

The retired High Court judge, who today has a legal practice in the southern city of Bulawayo, is interim chairman [...]

DROUGHT AID

At the end of an international conference held in Geneva, Switzerland, this week, to discus aid for the ten southern [...]

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INDIAN OCEAN: A NEW REGIONAL DEAL

The predictable extension of trade relations between members of the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) and their neighbours in southern Africa, in particular with the Republic of South Africa, is expected to modify the whole panorama of regional cooperation.

A BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH

The Malaysian diplomatic mission in Zimbabwe has been discreetly reduced following a dispute over an agreement on Malaysian Airline Systems' [...]