List of Zimbabwe articles
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mugabe crop Mugabe and Entourage Live it Up in Cancún While Zimbabwe Suffers
What’s a $1,500-a-day travel allowance for hard-working flunkies?
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TOPSHOT - A Democratic Alliance (DA) party's supporters holds a placard reading "Jacob Zuma must go" during a march against South African president Jacob Zuma on April 7, 2017 in Johannesburg. Thousands of protesters marched through South African cities on April 7, 2017 demanding President Jacob Zuma's resignation, as a second ratings agency downgraded the country's debt to junk status. Zuma's sacking of respected finance minister Pravin Gordhan last week has fanned public anger, divisions within the ruling ANC party and a sharp decline in investor confidence in the country. / AFP PHOTO / JOHN WESSELS (Photo credit should read JOHN WESSELS/AFP/Getty Images) South Africa’s Zimbabwe Moment
President Jacob Zuma is toying with land expropriation policies that threaten the country's economy — and his own leadership.
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zimbabwe-crop The Do’s And Don’t’s of Planning Birthday Parties: Robert Mugabe Edition
Who better to guide your birthday party planning than nonagenarian African autocrats?
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mugabe-crop How Not to Handle Criticism, Brought to You By Robert Mugabe
The Zimbabwean dictator’s very public, very amusing fallout with a former political ally in South Africa.
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A man wearing a hat decorated with worthless note bearers' cheques during a protest against government plans to introduce bond notes -- a local token currency equivalent to the US dollar, and unemployement on August 3, 2016 in Harare. Many Zimbabweans fear the bond notes could revive the hyperinflation that destroyed the economy in 2008 and 2009. Police squads had earlier closely monitored the marchers, who had planned to hand in a petition at the finance ministry to demand the bond notes are not issued. / AFP / ZINYANGE AUNTONY (Photo credit should read ZINYANGE AUNTONY/AFP/Getty Images) Zimbabwe’s Currency Hail Mary
Faced with a crippling cash crisis, the southern African country has designed a solution that nobody thinks will work.
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zimbabwe-flag-crop Zimbabwe Kidnaps and Tortures Activists Amid Protests Over Currency Reforms
The specter of hyperinflation is driving demonstrations against Mugabe, and security forces are responding with brutality.
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gettyimages-547273264-crop How Zimbabwe Made Zimbabwe’s Flag Illegal
The country's own flag has become an anti-government symbol of protest.
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gestures at a press conference after the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Porlamar, Margarita Island, Venezuela, on September 18, 2016. / AFP / RONALDO SCHEMIDT (Photo credit should read RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP/Getty Images) Venezuela’s No Good, Rotten, Terrible Meeting of the Non-Aligned Club
The once-mighty Non-Aligned Movement mustered just a shadow of its former self in a sad summit in Venezuela.
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe addresses at a rally in Harare on July 28, 2013. Zimbabweans go to the polls on July 31 to choose between veteran President Robert Mugabe and long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER JOE (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty Images) A New Statue of Zimbabwe’s 92-Year-Old President Is Being Compared to a ‘Simpsons’ Character
Amid protests and economic turmoil, Twitter mocked the authoritarian president’s new cartoonish likeness.
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A protester holds up a street sign with President Robert Mugabe name on it as Zimbabwe opposition supporters clash with police during a protest march for electoral reforms on August 26, 2016 in Harare. Riots erupted in Zimbabwe's capital Harare after police fired tear gas and beat protesters who responded by throwing stones in the latest of a string of tense demonstrations. The violence came a day after a High Court judge had ordered police "not to interfere (with), obstruct or stop the march". Dozens of police blocked off the site of an opposition rally to demand electoral reforms before 2018 when 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe, who has ruled the southern African country for decades, will seek re-election. / AFP / WILFRED KAJESE (Photo credit should read WILFRED KAJESE/AFP/Getty Images) Mugabe’s Last Stand
Whether it’s an Arab Spring-style uprising that gets him or simply old age — Zimbabwe’s firebrand autocrat is on his way out.
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TOPSHOT - Illegal migrants sit on the dock at the Tripoli port after 115 migrants of African origins were rescued by two coast guard boats at sea when their boat started sinking off the Libyan coast on April 11, 2016. / AFP / Mahmud TURKIA (Photo credit should read MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images) Why Black People Must Help Africa Develop
The marginalization of blacks in America won’t end until we have a first-world African nation to lift up our people.
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GettyImages-546955694 crop What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About Zimbabwe’s #ThisFlag Movement
It's not just on the internet and it's not just about President Mugabe.
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GettyImages-547266310 crop Why a Hashtag Isn’t Enough for a Revolution in Zimbabwe
Some hope to use social media to usher in the end of Robert Mugabe’s regime. This ignores the realities of power.
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gettyimages-492763119-e1459536233803 Longform’s Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
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BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - MARCH 13: A young African boy at work in the fields, watering maize crops just outside Bangui pictured on March 13, 2014 near Bangui, Central African Republic. (Photo by Thomas Koehler/Photothek via Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** The Untouchables
Why it’s getting harder to stop multinational corporations.
