The Latest Breaking News from Zimbabwe

The southern African state once adopted US dollars as legal tender when hyperinflation rendered its currency worthless.

Vladimir Putin has knocked over the European Central Bank’s house of cards with his war against Ukraine, and Europe will face difficult monetary conditions for years to come.

A young man sprawls on a local drug dealer’s decrepit beige sofa, lights up the bottom of a carefully cut fluorescent light bulb and, using an improvised pipe, takes a deep puff of the small rock of cheap synthetic methamphetamine, known as crystal meth.

Since the late 1990s, as companies in Zimbabwe have shut down and laid off workers due to the country’s economic crisis, people have resorted to the informal sector to earn a living. It is estimated that 90% of Zimbabweans now have informal sector livelihoods.

This week, Africa Calling podcast brings you audio-rich stories and voices from the African continent with our African correspondents. In Zimbabwe, drug abuse, and using crystal meth in particular, has taken hold among the youth of Masvingo; drum-making artisans are trying to preserve their craft in Cameroon, and Benin is…

Zimbabwe, Africa’s biggest tobacco grower, has opened its selling season for the crop amid pledges to fight deforestation and child labor in response to pressure from rights groups, environmentalists and international buyers

Letter: A reader deplores the way one Zimbabwean asylum seeker has been treated

Maize production in some of the sub-Saharan African countries that dominated maize supplies during the 2021/22 marketing year is expected to be lower this coming season. This will bring about some changes in the sub continent’s maize trade in the 2022/23 marketing year, in particular creating complications for Kenya. In…

Experts say the prevalent drug abuse highlights a lack of social nets as Zimbabwe’s economy continues to tank.

TJ Mathe, who lived in Knightswood, was visiting his grandparents in Zimbabwe when the tragedy occurred. Tributes have now been paid to the three-year-old, with a fundraiser launched for his heartbroken parents.

TJ Mathe, from Knightswood, Glasgow, was found unresponsive after having drowned in rain water in an unused pool in his grandparents garden on March 30.