Africa
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April 24, 2016Zimbabweans Clash With Govt Over Controversial National Pledge
Reverend Useni Sibanda says parents have agreed that children won’t attend classes next week if the government insists they should recite the national pledge.
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April 24, 2016
Papa Wemba, King of Congolese Rumba, Dies at Age 66
Papa Wemba had performed three songs at the Urban Musical Festival Anoumabo (FEMUA) in Abidjan before collapsing in front of thousands of fans.
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April 23, 2016
Ambassador: European Union Won't Dump Zimbabweans
Ambassador Van Damme said although the EU re-engaged the Zimbabwean government that re-engagement will not result in turning its back on civil society.
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April 23, 2016
'Zimbabwe Independence Not Benefiting Citizens'
"Zanu PF has up to now given us an illusion of what independence is. We are still a long way to attaining full independence as desired by all and the departed heroes of the liberation struggle.”
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April 23, 2016
Zimbabweans Shunning People With Disabilities
"Most of the schools are not accessible especially in the rural areas. In towns there is the problem of accessibility to toilets and offices because of steps."
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April 23, 2016
Top 5 Songs for Week Ending April 23
These are the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Chart, for the week ending April 23, 2016.
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April 22, 2016
Zimbabwe Top on USA Food Aid List
Jason Taylor, chief of the Office of Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience at USAID Zimbabwe, says indications are that the food situation will worsen in the country as most crops have failed this season.
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April 22, 2016
Zanu PF Activist Says Youth Minister Zhuwao Incompetent
Zanu-PF youth activist Acie Lumumba is raising serious allegations of incompetence and blackmail against Youth Minister Patrick Zhuwao.
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April 22, 2016
Dynamos Coach Silva Under Pressure to Win Next Game
Castle Lager Premiership action returns after a one-week break with Dynamos’ Portuguese coach Jorge Paulo Silva still in charge of the club despite speculation over his future.
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April 21, 2016
Zimbabwe Lawyers Seeking Reinstatement of Suspended Harare Mayor
The laweyers also want the High Court to order Kasukuwere to refrain from suspending, dismissing or engaging in any other activity with a view to removing councillors.
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April 21, 2016
'Zimbabwe Land Reform Riddled With Corruption'
Simpkins declared Zimbabwe’s land reform exercise as mired in controversy since the country’s independence from British rule, and beneficial to mostly loyalists of President Mugabe's ruling Zanu PF party.
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April 21, 2016
Pop Icon Prince Dead at 57
Media reports said he was found dead early Thursday at his home in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Details have not been released.
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April 21, 2016
Climate Change Agreement to Benefit Developing Nations
An environmentalist says the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change signing ceremony scheduled for Friday in New York is a milestone, especially for developing countries like Zimbabwe.
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April 20, 2016
Zimbabweans in USA Debate Country's Future
A town hall discussion organized and hosted by VOA’s Zimbabwe Service in Washington, titled, Zimbabwe @ 36: The Way Forward, revealed deep-seated concerns among those in the diaspora, about their country’s current state.
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April 20, 2016
Mugabe's New York Trip Infuriates Zimbabweans
"The president should be spending his time coming up with solutions for the drought facing the country and the cash crisis not gallivanting to the United States ..."
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April 20, 2016
Tsvangirai Fumes as Minister Kasukuwere Suspends MDC-T Mayor
Kasukuwere on Wednesday suspended Manyenyeni on allegations of insubordination and disobeying the minister over the council’s appointment of James Mushore as the city’s Town Clerk.
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April 20, 2016
Missed National Targets Haunting Zimbabwe
Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa says ordinary people are in despair because the expectations that they had about the kind of life they would enjoy in an independent Zimbabwe, have been frustrated, turning independence day into a charade.
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April 19, 2016
Is Mugabe A Liability in Zimbabwe's Democratization?
“… He (President Mugabe) was a hero of the independence movement and he kept that title for a long time. I don’t see why anybody could say that he is still a hero, that he is still an asset to Zimbabwe.”
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April 19, 2016
Zimbabwe Police Block Public Protest Over Dzamara Assault
Dirk Frey, said members of his group were dispersed by heavily-armed police at the Africa Unity Square just outside parliament where they intended to protest against Dzamara’s beating.
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April 19, 2016
Zimbabweans Question Mugabe’s Positive Economic Outlook
Mister Mugabe made the remarks at the National Sports Stadium during commemoration of the country’s independence.
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April 19, 2016
Uncertainty As Zimbabwe Surpasses 36th Independence Anniversary
Thirty-six years on and eight-presidential elections later - some heavily contested, particularly 2008 which forced a negotiated five-year power-sharing government, President Mugabe and Zanu-PF, still reign.
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April 18, 2016
Zimbabwe Health Sector 'Collapsing' 36 Years After Independence
“At Independence, hospitals were state of the art manned by qualified staff, proper equipment and drugs were available."
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April 18, 2016
Mugabe: Zimbabwe Addressing Economic Problems
President Robert Mugabe says Zimbabwe has made great strides in addressing issues affecting the majority of Zimbabweans.
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April 18, 2016
High Independence Hopes Vanish for Most Zimbabweans
“It was those days up to the 18th April ...Were full of excitement and celebrations and on the 17th April we did not sleep so the Union Jack was lowered on 17th midnight and the new flag was raised.”
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April 17, 2016
Zimbabwe Ruling Party Dismisses Calls for Mugabe's Resignation
Moyo said if the people "still need him, they will vote for him again," in 2018, when Mugabe is expected to stand for re-election.
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April 17, 2016
Zimbabwe May Amend Indigenization Law
President Robert Mugabe said in a statement Tuesday that the indigenization policy is creating “confusion” and discouraging foreign investment.
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April 16, 2016
Zimbabwe Farmers Say Land Reforms Big Joke
“Personally I am not content with the land issue. The land redistribution was politicized and those who were supposed to benefit did not benefit. If you were not coming from a certain political party you could not benefit ..."
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April 16, 2016
Fighting Reported in South Sudan Ahead of Former Rebel Leader's Return
A spokesman for the SPLA-In-Opposition (SPLA IO) said government forces attacked its bases in Unity state’s Rubkona County.
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April 15, 2016
Zimbabwe Bus Crash Kills 12, Declared National Disaster
The horrific crash was declared a national disaster and government pledged financial support to bereaved families for the necessary burial arrangements.
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April 15, 2016
Some Zimbabweans Urge Govt to Redistribute Land
Though some of them were allocated land under the controversial 2000 land reforms, millions of local people are still landless.
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April 15, 2016
Zanu PF Says MDC-T Public Protest Waste of Time
One of the top Zanu PF officials, Joseph Tshuma, told VOA Studio 7 the MDC-T should just forget about staging such public protests.
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April 15, 2016
Parents Demand Return of Zimbabwe Women Stuck in Kuwait
Some relatives of women and girls lured to Kuwait in the Middle East to seek green pastures are seeking help for their safe return to Zimbabwe.
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April 14, 2016
Did Zimbabwe Opposition Parties Boycott Tsvangirai MDC March?
“It (the march) had MDC colors and it was led by the leadership of the MDC-T. And even when they sought the permission (for staging the public event) they did not make any excuses about it."
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April 14, 2016
Economic Decay Eroding Zimbabwe's Independence Gains
Some Zimbabweans have suffered to the extent that they now believe that colonial ruler Ian Douglas Smith was far much better than the current ruling Zanu PF party led by President Robert Mugabe.
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April 14, 2016
MDC-T Protests Against Poverty, Missing $15 Billion Diamond Funds
Tsvangirai told his supporters that he was worried by the ruling party’s failure to create the 2.2 million jobs that the president promised in the run-up to the 2013 national elections, adding that poverty was now rife in the country.
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April 13, 2016
Zimbabwe's Indigenization Position on Foreign Banks Hailed
Economic analyst Masimba Kuchera said President Mugabe’s intervention will bring stability and certainty in the financial sector currently experiencing cash shortages.
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April 13, 2016
Zimbabwe Judge Rules in Favor of Planned MDC-T March
The High Court on Wednesday ruled that police should not interfere with a march planned for tomorrow by the opposition MDC formation led by Morgan Tsvangirai.
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April 13, 2016
RBZ Governor in USA for IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting
Mangudya said the meeting is not expected to deliberate on Zimbabwe’s attempts to get loans from the two institutions.
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April 13, 2016
Zimbabwe Youth: We Are Not Political Tools
Takunda Madzana says most young people in Zimbabwe have over the years been used as political tools by some parties.
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April 13, 2016
Zimbabwe Bids Farewell to 2 Heroines
Thousands of Zimbabweans gathered at the National Heroes’ Acre to bid farewell to two heroines, Victoria Chitepo and Vivian Mwashita Muchicho.
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April 13, 2016
Zimbabweans in South Africa Want Food Import Duty Scrapped
Traveler’s rebate, also known as the duty free allowance, is pegged at US$300 and is granted, on a few qualifying goods to a traveler once a month on first arrival in Zimbabwe.
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April 12, 2016
Zimbabweans Reject National Peace Commission Bill
"The Bill must not take away the independence of the Commission by giving the minister too much power to interfere in the business of the institution.”
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April 12, 2016
Zimbabwe Land Issue Unresolved 36 Years After Independence
“To be very honest we have not benefitted from the land reform and the so-called economic empowerment program. Some of us who seem to be non-aligned have not benefitted anything from the political blueprints.”
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April 12, 2016
Zimbabwe War Veterans Withdraw Support for Mugabe
Some of the 32 war veterans that signed the declaration met Tuesday and stressed that they are withdrawing their support for President Mugabe.