Zimbabwe

12 JANUARY 2016 - An exhibition covering the story of 40 Zimbabwean asylum seekers in the UK over a 12 year period (2001-2013) will open in London from 18 to 24 January.

Once again the darling of Europe, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, recently delivered a powerful climate change rebuke in Paris.[1] He loves travelling almost as much as making speeches and as frail as he is he wasn’t going to miss it.

As I write, hundreds are gathered in Harare to bid farewell to my brother Sam, one week after he joined the ancestors, sent there from a New Delhi hospital by one of those wheeled demons that have struck before, robbing us of Africa’s finest.

Dear Partners, Colleagues, Friends

Software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse’s call on the government to “apply Mugabe laws” to ensure Ghanaians own more companies raises questions about Ghana’s model of economic development.

In September 2015 before an assembly of Heads of State at the United Nations in New York, Robert Mugabe, the all but in name President-for-Life of the beleaguered nation of Zimbabwe, blithely announced that, “we (meaning Africans) are not gays” and so the rest of the world mustn’t meddle when the

The year is 2000 and we have just survived Y2K. Fears of an apocalyptic, extinction-level event ushering us into the new millennium have been proven untrue.

It has been a month since five armed men in civilian clothes kidnapped Itai Dzamara, a prominent Zimbabwean human rights activist, near his home in the Glenview suburb of Harare.

We are seriously disturbed by a tragedy that left 5 prisoners dead and 30 others seriously injured after trigger happy prison officials opened fire at the defenseless captives for merely demanding food, barely three weeks after the abduction of a human rights defender.

I have a problem with politics of disappearance and brutality. And I have a problem with dictatorship and Robert Mugabe's leadership style.