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Zimbabwe

July 2024

  • Simukai Chigudu. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: ‘Colonialism had never really ended’: my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes – podcast

    This week, from 2021: After growing up in a Zimbabwe convulsed by the legacy of colonialism, when I got to Oxford I realised how many British people still failed to see how empire had shaped lives like mine – as well as their own. By Simukai Chigudu

June 2024

  • A woman stands in a canoe in a dress with African print. The canoe floats in a pond with scores of large lily pads.

    Women behind the lens
    Women behind the lens: ‘This is how I see Zimbabwe – thriving in the face of challenges’

    Photographer Tamary Kudita chose this location for its lotus flowers, which produce beautiful blooms despite difficult living conditions

April 2024

  • Farmer with crops

    Zimbabwean president declares state of disaster due to drought

    Emmerson Mnangagwa says country needs $2bn of aid as severe dry spell caused by El Niño afflicts southern Africa

March 2024

  • A man in protective clothing pours some disinfectant into a bucket of water

    Fair Access
    Cholera now threatens 1bn people. It’s time to finish what we began in the 19th century

    Hakainde Hichilema and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
    With the disease raging in 23 countries and no vaccine stocks, Zambia and the WHO propose a way to stop the deaths
  • 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
  • zimbabwe riot police shield

    Zimbabwe police arrest apostolic ‘prophet’ and rescue 251 children from compound

    Man claiming to be a prophet arrested along with seven aides ‘for criminal activities which include abuse of minors’

February 2024

  • Victoria falls Zimbabwe<br>Rainbows and majestic victoria falls in Zimbabwe

    Australian tourist had been missing in Zimbabwe for nearly a week before search began

  • The the Zambezi river at Victoria Falls is surrounded by rainforest, where an Australian tourist went missing on Friday.

    Australian tourist missing in Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls national park

  • An elderly woman in long patterned dress and white shawl walks with the aid of a stick after casting her vote in Mpumalanga, South Africa

    Opinion
    A menopause revolution is stirring in Africa – I’m helping it to succeed

    Sue Mbaya
  • Winnet Mushaninga

    UK care firm charged workers from Africa thousands more than cost of visa

January 2024

  • One of the 160 elephants that died in late 2023 in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park as drought hit the region.

    The age of extinction
    More than 160 elephants die in Zimbabwe, with many more at risk

  • Zambian president Hakainde Hichilema in blue gown seen during a visit to the national cholera treatment centre surrounded by medical staff

    Fair Access
    Cholera cases soar globally amid shortage of vaccines

December 2023

  • John Barratt

    Other lives
    John Barratt obituary

    Other lives: Local authority chief executive who later led several public inquiries
  • Christina Britzolakis

    Other lives
    Christina Britzolakis obituary

    Other lives: English lecturer at Warwick University who wrote a book analysing the writing of Sylvia Plath
  • The founders of Weaver Press, Irene Staunton and Murray McCartney, at their home in Harare, Zimbabwe.

    Telling tales: Zimbabwe’s Weaver Press celebrates 25 years of championing truth-telling fiction

    NoViolet Bulawayo is among authors to pay tribute to the independent publishing house that shook up the country’s literary scene

November 2023

  • Painted dogs

    The age of extinction
    Zimbabwean ranger brings unloved painted dogs back from brink

    Jealous Mpofu wins Tusk’s ranger of the year award for his work with a maligned and misunderstood species
  • Tapfumaneyi Masaya, whose body was identified by CCC members at a mortuary.

    Abducted Zimbabwe opposition activist Tapfumaneyi Masaya found dead

    Masaya reportedly tortured and his body dumped on outskirts of Harare after being abducted while campaigning
  • An elephant carcass in the Okavango Delta in Botswana – one of hundreds that died mysteriously.

    The age of extinction
    It took years to solve the mystery elephant deaths. Now, the threat is spreading

    The 35 elephants that dropped dead in Zimbabwe were victims of an obscure bacteria combined with extreme heat, and more elephants – and other species – could suffer the same fate

October 2023

  • The carcass of one of the 350 elephants that were found dead in the Okavango delta in northern Botswana between May and June 2020.

    The age of extinction
    Scientists discover why dozens of endangered elephants dropped dead

  • A small boat overloaded with passengers in the middle of the sea

    ‘There is no hope here’: young Africans explain why they would risk death to leave home

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