China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Ltd. is planning to establish a lithium carbonate processing plant in Zimbabwe, marking a significant step in the country’s efforts to move up the value chain in its fast-growing battery minerals sector. The...

Zimbabwe’s fast-growing lithium industry has come under fresh scrutiny following allegations that politically connected syndicates and private actors are exploiting governance gaps to facilitate mineral smuggling and illicit financial flows in ...

Zimbabwe’s manufacturing sector has spent much of the past two decades battling an extraordinary combination of challenges. Currency instability, unreliable power supplies, limited access to affordable capital, infrastructure constraints, impor...

For much of the past three years, investors, policymakers and technology executives have been captivated by a single narrative: artificial intelligence would trigger the largest infrastructure build-out since the dawn of the internet. Across the Unit...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday rejected a proposal by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a face-to-face meeting on the 4-year-old conflict, saying he sees “no point” in it. Thursday’s letter, the ...

HARARE – The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) has received regulatory approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe (SECZim) to launch the Zimbabwe Entrepreneurship Exchange (ZEEX), a specialised capital market platform designed to...

Some deaths do not end a voice. They merely change where we hear it from. Dr Alex Tawanda Magaisa died in June 2022, but in Zimbabwe’s troubled public square, his voice still walks among us: calm, learned, mischievous, morally alert, and stubbornly...

For much of the past decade, Zimbabwean businesses have focused primarily on surviving economic volatility rather than pursuing transformational growth. Currency instability, inflationary pressures, constrained access to capital, energy shortages, an...

FOR much of the past two decades, Zimbabwe’s economic discourse has been dominated by mining, agriculture, currency instability, and the rapid expansion of the informal sector. While these issues remain critical to the country’s developme...

FOR decades, discussions about Zimbabwe’s economic future have largely revolved around government policy, foreign investment, mining giants, and large corporations. Yet beneath these headline sectors lies a largely overlooked segment of the eco...