Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe’s RTGS Outage: How a 24‑Hour Glitch Froze the Nation’s Payments System
A Nationwide Halt to Digital Transactions On 18 August 2025, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) announced it was experiencing a “technical…
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Kingdom of Mapungubwe
The Kingdom of Mapungubwe (mah-POON-goob-weh) was an ancient state at the meeting point of the Shashe and Limpopo rivers in…
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Zimbabwe: Country Launches First Electric Taxi Service and Charging Network
VAYA Africa, a Mauritius-registered Transportation as a Service (TaaS) company, has launched an electric vehicle service in Zimbabwe as part…
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Journalist Zororo Makamba becomes Zimbabwe’s first Covid-19 death
ZBC News, Health and Child Care Minister Obediah Moyo confirmed the death of the prominent journalist, Makamba. He was 30-years-old.…
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Robert Mugabe dies aged 95
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's first post-independence leader, has died aged 95.
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Why Zimbabwe’s female rangers are better at stopping poaching
Sgt. Vimbai Kumire holds up a photo of a dead leopard on her phone. She stares at the image as the truck she’s…
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Cyclone Idai causes widespread damage across Southern Africa
Hundreds of people are missing, while more than 1.5 million people have been affected across the three Southern African countries.
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Southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics, and including several countries. The term southern Africa or Southern Africa, generally includes Angola, Botswana, Eswatini(Swaziland), Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, though…
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A History of Zimbabwe
Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe: 11th – 15th c. The plateau between the rivers Zambezi and Limpopo, in southeast Africa, offers…
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Quett Ketumile Joni Masire (1925-2017), the great African leader you may have never heard of
Quett Masire, president of Botswana from 1980 to 1998, passed away aged 91 on 22 June 2017. He was one of Africa’s…
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Robert Mugabe First Speech After victory in 1980
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The offspring of Africa’s strongmen are living it up
THE Mugabe brothers are having a night out again. Here they are showing off their outfits: distressed white denim, high-top…
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‘We ignore copyright development at our peril’ – ARIPO
The Real African|| Baffour Ankomah A 3-day symposium in Harare jointly organised by the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) and…
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Quett Ketumile Joni Masire (1925-2017), the great African leader you may have never heard of
Quett Masire, president of Botswana from 1980 to 1998, passed away aged 91 on 22 June 2017. He was one of Africa’s…
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Why Africa Should Go Cashless
India has lately been pursuing an ambitious goal: a cashless economy. Despite early missteps and frustrations, it will turn out…
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