Zimbabwe: US blacklists 2 top officials over human rights abuse

The United States Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on Zimbabwe’s state security minister and the country’s ambassador to Tanzania over human rights abuses.   Owen Ncube, Zimbabwe’s state security minister, was blacklisted over accusations that he ordered security services to abduct and mistreat members of the opposition group, the Treasury Department said in a statement. […]

Parliamentary Report Lambasts Gas Distributors for Expensive Sale Prices

A Parliamentary inquiry presented on Tuesday rebuked gas distributing companies for increasing their profits and undermining the citizen’s purchasing power after the state liberalized the market in 2015. The report was presented amid an ongoing consumer boycott that hurt the finances of three brands operating in fuel distribution (Afriquia), dairy (Central Danone) and bottled water […]

SADC leaders slammed for failing to assist troubled Mozambique

Experts and analysts have piled criticism on the leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for “adding fuel to Mozambican fire” and for “failing the people of Mozambique” that has been for weeks engulfed in post-election violence. Zimbabwe’s president Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is also chair of SADC, has said the regional bloc is ready […]