HARARE – Varun Beverages’ reported interest in acquiring a controlling stake in Dairibord Holdings is increasingly being viewed by business analysts as a strategic response to mounting pressure on its core beverages business, rather than simp...

AS a newly appointed adviser to the President on environmental policies, Dilesh Nguwaya has an opportunity to move Zimbabwe’s environmental conversation beyond waste disposal and towards a national economic strategy centred on resource efficiency, ...

HARARE – Zimbabwe’s central bank has completed printing higher-denomination ZiG banknotes, with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) expected to announce the circulation date for new ZiG100 and ZiG200 notes in the coming months as authorities c...

HARARE – Zimbabwean companies are falling behind the global artificial intelligence (AI) productivity revolution, with weak data infrastructure, fragmented digital systems, and limited board-level commitment preventing businesses from integrating A...

Telecel Zimbabwe (Private) Limited has taken a significant step in its corporate rescue process after convening a meeting of its members and creditors to consider and vote on a proposed corporate rescue plan aimed at restructuring the struggling mobi...

HONG KONG — World shares mostly declined Thursday and oil prices slipped despite a flurry of strikes between the U.S. and Iran. U.S. futures edged lower, while selling of AI-related shares weighed on benchmarks in South Korea and Japan. In early Eu...

ATLANTA — Lionel Messi delivered for his teammates. With one more win, he’ll be delivering another World Cup trophy to Argentina. Messi didn’t add to his tournament-leading goal total, but the 39-year-old assisted on two late strikes that carri...

LUSAKA, Zambia – Zambia’s former Vice President Guy Scott, who in 2014 became Africa’s ​first white head of state ‌in two decades when he briefly served as acting president, has died at the age ​of 82, the government said ​on Wednesday....

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Amazon said Wednesday that the technology company will launch its new satellite internet service Amazon Leo in South Africa in 2027, seemingly pushing ahead of Elon Musk’s rival Starlink to win business in Africa’s mos...

HONG KONG — China’s economy slowed sharply to a 4.3% annualized pace of growth in the April-June quarter, the government said Wednesday, the weakest in over three years. The official data fell short of forecasts and was far below the economy’s ...