With Mugabe gone, is 2018 the year for Zimbabwe’s tourism revival?

“We’re very positive about the future of Zimbabwe’s tourism, particularly in the wake of the new President announcing his commitment to the conservation and protection of the country’s natural resources,” GPC’s Zimbabwe ambassador, Shelley Cox, tells me. And in May 2018, GPC will offer a six-day journey across the Zambezi Valley, combining Mana Pools with […]

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe has passed the deadline for willingly leaving office — and now he must be impeached

Thomson Reuters Zimbabwe’s leader Robert Mugabe has ingored a deadline set for him by his own party and refused to resign, so now he must be removed from power. Mugabe was expected to resign in a televized address on Sunday Night, but he refused. Impeachment will take some time, and some in the party have […]

In a puzzling national address, 93-year-old Robert Mugabe doesn’t stand down as Zimbabwe’s president after dramatic military coup

Thomson Reuters Robert Mugabe agreed on Sunday to resign as Zimbabwe’s president, sources told Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. The decision came after a de facto, dramatic military coup last week. Mugabe, the only leader the southern African nation has known since independence from Britain in 1980, was replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa, the deputy […]

Zimbabwe’s instability had a bizarre side-effect: the nation’s bitcoin market went bonkers

The highest price paid on a cryptocurrency exchange in Zimbabwe overnight was $ 13,499 — almost double prices in the US. The price action comes amid a military invention in the African country, which doesn’t have a currency of its own. Despite wild swings in prices on the local exchanges, peer-to-peer transactions appeared to be […]

‘Sickening’: Rights groups slam WHO for appointing Zimbabwe’s Mugabe a goodwill ambassador

The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) decision to name Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe a “goodwill ambassador” has been met with condemnation by human rights and medical groups. The 93-year-old Zimbabwean leader was given the position, which is bestowed on personalities who highlight “important health issues,” at a WHO conference on noncommunicable diseases (NCD) in Montevideo, Uruguay. […]