Zimbabwe on Wednesday signed a US$3.5 billion compensation agreement with white farmers whose land was seized over 20 years ago under the country’s controversial reforms. Then president Robert Mugabe forcibly took more than 4,000 farms from the country’s 4,500 white large-scale commercial farmers. The compensation is for built structures including farmhouses and irrigation systems on the... 

Two decades after former president Mugabe has destroyed Zimbabwe’s economy by encouraging black farmers to violently force white commercial farmers off their land, his successor is now throwing in the towel. The land grabs, which began in 2000, were supported by Mugabe’s government “because it needed to correct colonial imbalances”. Nearly 4,500 white-owned properties and others protected... 

Zimbabwe which was widely hailed by the controlled media to have “turned a corner” and be “on the road to recovery” following the forced resignation of Robert Mugabe a year ago, is now in even worse condition than ever, and has regular 15-hour power cuts, runaway inflation, and endless currency crises and fuel shortages. A report on the ground from the Aljazeera news service reveals that Africans... 

In four decades of independence, Zimbabwe’s rulers have been able to deploy the security forces to crush protests even as the southern African nation sank deeper into economic crisis. Judging from the latest bout of unrest, that may no longer be true. Crowds showed little fear as they poured onto the streets of the capital, Harare, and other major cities when the main labour federation called a... 

Emmerson Mnangagwa vows that the “cowardly act”, which injured several people, will not derail next month’s historic election. Zimbabwe’s president has escaped injury after an explosion at a stadium where he was addressing a rally, in what state media are describing as an assassination attempt. Emmerson Mnangagwa has vowed that the “cowardly act” will not derail... 

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced that whites will be offered 99-year leases on land if they come back to Zimbabwe. The new government of Zimbabwe has offered white farmers inside and outside the country a 99-year lease on their properties confiscated during the 2000-2002 anti-white attacks in an effort to restart the agricultural sector, which it now admits has collapsed after the... 

Leader of the Zimbabwe opposition MDC Tsvangirai has called on president Mugabe to resign. “In the interest of the people of Zimbabwe, Mr Robert Mugabe must resign,” Tsvangirai said, calling for a negotiated process to ease Zimbabwe through the transition of power. Zimbabwe’s former Prime Minister Morgan has reportedly returned to the country, as he was seen flying to the capital of...