The Latest Breaking News from Robert Mugabe

 Zimbabwe is on the cusp of abolishing the death penalty after its Death Penalty Abolition Bill was approved by the Senate on December 12. The bill is now sitting on the desk of Zimbabwe’s president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, a known opponent of the death penalty, waiting for his assent. Once it…

Pattni featured heavily in Al Jazeera’s Gold Mafia investigation, which looked at gold smuggling in Southern Africa.

At independence, most African states had two legislative chambers – a lower and upper chamber – in their parliament. African leaders saw that as a colonial legacy and as inefficient, so most states removed the upper chambers. Before 1990, only two states kept these bicameral parliaments: Liberia and Nigeria.

Police flood Harare’s streets in anticipation of protests on the eve of Southern African Development Community meeting.

President Mnangagwa launched initiative to foster healing over 1980s killings, but survivor communities are sceptical.

Have sanctions ever achieved much in Zimbabwe, and how do they affect the country’s economy?

A US bill is calling to reassess US-South Africa relations, pointing to tensions amid the ICJ case against Israel.

The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other senior leaders, replacing a broad two-decade-old pressure campaign with targeted action.

Survivors say the government is yet to offer full compensation for the flooding that happened almost 10 years ago.