5 movies with over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes leaving Hulu in May 2025 Documentaries are the next wave of features leaving Hulu in May 2025. Here are five with over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. TechRadar · Apr 26, 2025
Lewis Machipisa obituary Other lives: BBC World Service journalist who reported on developments in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe before relocating to London The Guardian - UK · Apr 25, 2025
Pope Francis’s funeral is loaded with potential for diplomatic awkwardness Saturday’s event will feature leaders who would not usually appear in the same room The Guardian - UK · Apr 24, 2025
White and Black farmers still bear the scars of Zimbabwe’s land grabs How mishandling of land reform evicted many white farmers, ‘enriched elites’ and left Black Zimbabweans in poverty. Al Jazeera · Apr 23, 2025
Is Zimbabwe wooing Donald Trump by paying white farmers and ending tariffs? Zimbabwe is the only country to have suspended tariffs on US imports so far. Al Jazeera · Apr 17, 2025
Zimbabwe farmers' group rejects compensation deal for past land seizures A group representing many of the white farmers whose land was seized during Zimbabwe’s land reforms over two decades ago has rejected a compensation deal with the government The Independent UK · Apr 16, 2025
Amid Zimbabwe’s political crisis, hope and frustration brew As president Mnangagwa faces pressure to resign, people say they are angry but fear protesting amid calls for change. Al Jazeera · Apr 16, 2025
The Zimbabwean singer who found fame in China – and obscurity at home Jo Stak used to sing in Mandarin and get stopped by fans on the streets of Shanghai. That changed when he came home. Al Jazeera · Apr 13, 2025
Zimbabwe starts compensating white farmers 25 years after land seizures Step is requirement for restructuring country’s debt, including new IMF programme The Guardian - UK · Apr 11, 2025
Kirsty Coventry and whiteness in Zimbabwe: how sport can rewrite the political rules Kirsty Coventry’s story is one of apparent contradictions. She’s a white woman celebrated as a national hero in a Black-majority Zimbabwe and an Olympic swimmer turned politician. She’s also now one of the most powerful figures in global sports as president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Conversation · Apr 3, 2025
Why is Zimbabwe’s President Mnangagwa facing pressure to resign? An internal split in the ruling ZANU-PF party is driving fears of a possible coup attempt. Al Jazeera · Apr 3, 2025
View from Africa: how Kirsty Coventry will handle sport’s biggest job at the IOC Incoming IOC president owes her position to political support but is promising a collective and sustainable leadership approach The Guardian - UK · Mar 22, 2025
So who is Kirsty Coventry, who now has global sport’s most powerful job? IOC’s first female president faces significant challenges including handling Donald Trump’s power and protecting women’s sports The Guardian - UK · Mar 20, 2025
Sam Nujoma obituary Namibia’s first president and ‘founding father’ who led the fight for independence from the apartheid regime in South Africa The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2025
Al Jazeera · Feb 9, 2025 Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s ‘founding father’ and first president, dies aged 95 Nujoma was revered for leading his country to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990.
Evening Standard · Dec 29, 2024 Longest-lived US president was always happy to speak his mind Serving as 39th US president from 1977 to 1981, Jimmy Carter sought to make government ‘competent and compassionate’.
The Independent UK · Dec 20, 2024 Zimbabwe launches new land policy to empower Black farmers with direct farm ownership Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has launched a new policy that will allow beneficiaries of land taken from white people under controversial land reforms to sell it and to be able to borrow from banks using it as collateral
The Conversation · Dec 19, 2024 Death penalty: how Zimbabwe reached the point of abolition – podcast 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…
Al Jazeera · Dec 10, 2024 US and UK sanction gold smuggler Kamlesh Pattni Pattni featured heavily in Al Jazeera’s Gold Mafia investigation, which looked at gold smuggling in Southern Africa.
France 24 · Oct 4, 2024 Dozens died when a boat capsized in eastern Congo In tonight's edition, At least 78 people died when an overcrowded boat capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo on Thursday. Also, Kinshasa will begin a vaccination campaign on Saturday, three days later than planned. And The Zimbabwean government will this month pay an initial $20 million to foreign white…
The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2024 How to Survive a Dictator: North Korea review – can ‘28 years in hell’ really be a laughing matter? Munya Chawawa pits his trademark raps and skits against interviews with a man denounced as ‘human scum’ – and a defector who ended up in a detention centre for decades. What emerges, against the odds, is witty and very well done
The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2024 Munya Chawawa: ‘The end of the world is hurtling towards us like a truck!’ The ‘fastest man on the internet’ has a new show about North Korea. He talks brainwashing, how we’re all suffering from apocalypse anxiety – and why the west is the real ‘big bad wolf’
The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2024 Megalopolis to Industry: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment Francis Ford Coppola’s grandiose, dystopian sci-fi is finally unleashed, and the young City bankers go green with Lord Muck
The Conversation · Sep 12, 2024 African countries are adopting two houses of parliament to boost democracy – but that’s not always what happens 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.
Al Jazeera · Aug 16, 2024 ‘SADC should speak out’: Zimbabwe activists face crackdown ahead of summit Police flood Harare’s streets in anticipation of protests on the eve of Southern African Development Community meeting.