Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is pressing the world to end sanctions on his country as it climbs out of political and economic abyss, however wherever he goes the shadow of Robert Mugabe follows. Now, the Prime Minister seeks support from the booming China, a nation more than willing to forgo human rights abuses and [...]

Multiple reports have been emanating from Zimbabwe, claiming that Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF has established secret militia bases in Masvingo and some parts of Manicaland province.
We can only document the reasoning behind and the existence of these bases as unsurprisingly abhorrent and furthering the lack of fundamental human rights that has plagued Zimbabwe. However, Radio VOP’s [...]

Journalist Stanley Kwenda has fled to South Africa after alleging that he received a death threat by telephone  from a senior police officer, linked to a story he wrote in The Zimbabwean. The newspaper says that “‘impeccable sources” have supplied them with the name of a senior member of the police’s law and order section, a member [...]

Zimbabwe’s attorney general today claimed that the state would move to have its key witness in the terrorism trial of an ally of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai impeached for giving contradicting evidence.
The trial of Roy Bennett -who astonishingly faces a possible death sentence on charges of illegal possession of arms for purposes of committing terrorism, banditry [...]

Chinese Foreign Minister Hon. Yang Jiechi recently sat down with both China Radio International and Kenya Broadcasting Corporation at the Chinese embassy in Nairobi. One of the lesser-discussed initiatives China has undertaken to wear the king’s crown in the realm of geopolitical hegemony was and is their continued strides in Africa. Below, the Foreign Minister [...]

Oil Voice reports that right across the border from tumultuous Zimbabwe, Zambia has invited a second round of bids for licenses to explore for oil in the country, under two months after the conclusion of the first round of bidding. The second round, announced on December 26, 2009, will include 23 blocks in six of [...]

When your government allows you barely the ease of mind to walk to your nearest intersection, not even the surplus for one to purchase produce or once-abundant maize, and as little faith in executive office as humanly possible, its almost laughable if not so sad to see the latest efforts emanating from Africa’s breadbasket to [...]

Khadija Sharife, a journalist and a visiting scholar at the Centre for Civil Society (CCS) based in South Africa, presented the following paper at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation conference ‘The Global Crisis and Africa: Struggles for Alternatives” in Randburg, South Africa on 19 November 2009. In a geopolitical climate where hungry investors are looking to [...]

Writing currently from Canada, the following piece by Peter Worthington in the Toronto Sun caught my eye. It is truly rare that Canadian media takes a gander at the nation of Zimbabwe, and in this brief perspective, I feel Mr. Worthington is hitting a major point which needs to be further examined in order for Zimbabwe [...]

Nigeria’s Port Harcourt International Airport isbuzzing with unusual activity. According to an article from CNN, “perhaps for the first time it’s not the departure hall that is attracting all of the attention“.
Over the last few years, the world’s lens has focused mainly on the mass crowds of people fleeing Port Harcourt, situated in the heart [...]