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Nyasha Chingono

Nyasha Chingono is Zimbabwe-based freelance reporter and regular contributor to the Guardian's global development site

March 2024

  • Cattle graze in Chikova, Zimbabwe

    The age of extinction
    ‘We don’t know where the money is going’: the ‘carbon cowboys’ making millions from credit schemes

    Carbon schemes are touted as a way to transfer billions in climate finance to the developing world – but people at the Kariba project in Zimbabwe say most of the profits never arrive

October 2023

  • Schoolchildren walk past flowing sewage in a storm drain in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe

    Zimbabwe bans large gatherings as threat of cholera outbreak grows

    Cases are rising in many parts of the country and critics are blaming chronic water shortages and poor sanitation systems

September 2023

  • President Emmerson Mnangagwa announces his new cabinet at the State House in Harare

    Zimbabwe opposition figures detained in crackdown after disputed election

  • A dead elephant  in the Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

    Elephants on the march across African borders as fatalities are on the rise

  • President Emmerson Mnangagwa announces new cabinet<br>epa10855011 Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa announces his new cabinet at the State House in Harare, Zimbabwe, 11 September 2023. Mnangagwa won the 23 and 24 August 2023 elections. EPA/AARON UFUMELI

    Zimbabwe’s president accused of nepotism after appointing son and nephew

  • Emmerson Mnangagwa

    Mnangagwa vows to improve lives of Zimbabweans as he is sworn in for second term

August 2023

  • Nelson Chamisa

    Zimbabwean opposition leader says election was ‘gigantic fraud’

  • ZIMBABWE-POLITICS-ELECTIONS<br>People await the reading of the presidential election results by Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) Chairperson Priscilla Chigumba (not seen) in Harare on August 26 2023. Zimbabwe's leading opposition party rejected the results of a presidential election that saw incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa win a second term in a vote international observers say fell short of democratic standards. (Photo by Jekesai NJIKIZANA / AFP) (Photo by JEKESAI NJIKIZANA/AFP via Getty Images)

    Emmerson Mnangagwa wins second term as president of Zimbabwe

  • Voters queue outside a polling station during Zimbabwe's presidential and legislative elections in Harare, on August 23, 2023. Zimbabweans on August 23, 2023 began voting in closely-watched presidential and legislative elections

    Voting in Zimbabwe election extended by another day after ballot delays

  • Voters queue to cast their ballots at a polling station in the Epworth suburb of Harare

    Voting in Zimbabwe general election delayed by lack of ballot papers

  • Zimbabwe goes to polls amid deepening economic crisis

  • Ambushes and teargas: Zimbabwe opposition suffers as election arrives

  • Zimbabwe opposition supporter dies in ambush on way to election rally

May 2023

  • Tsitsi Dangarembga.

    Zimbabwe author Tsitsi Dangarembga has conviction for protest overturned

    Harare high court quashes suspended sentence and fine handed down to Booker-longlisted writer last year

April 2023

  • A young African woman standing by a road holding a campaign poster

    Zimbabwe opposition tweet case fuels poll crackdown fears

    CCC spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere convicted over tweet in 2021 as Zanu-PF accused of curbing free speech

February 2023

  • Robert Mugabe and his son Robert Jr in 2017

    Robert Mugabe’s son charged in Zimbabwe for damaging cars at party

    Son of late authoritarian ruler arrested over damage worth £10,000

January 2023

  • Nelson Chamisa, leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition Citizens Coalition for Change party, addresses supporters at its launch rally in Harare last year.

    ‘The Crocodile has not changed’: Zimbabwe opposition warns of election violence

    Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa urges world to keep ‘eyes on’ President Mnangagwa amid fears of repression this summer
  • Nurses and other health workers stage a protest at Harare’s Parirenyatwa hospital in June 2022.

    Health workers in Zimbabwe dismayed as law curbing strikes is passed

    Controversial bill to stop industrial action criticised as an already struggling sector fears losing more staff in a damaging brain drain
  • Job Sikhala arrives in a prison truck at the Harare Magistrates Courts, Zimbabwe, 02 September 2020.

    Zimbabwe court denies opposition MP pre-trial bail for fifteenth time

    In an election year, critics of the ruling Zanu-PF party are claiming political persecution over the continued incarceration of Job Sikhala

October 2022

  • A patient holds two unopened blister packs of tablets

    Fair Access
    Zimbabwe becomes first African nation to approve HIV prevention drug

    World Health Organization welcomes country’s ‘crucial step’ in backing use of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA)
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