Opinion

Zimbabwe’s election was a fight between men – women are sidelined in politics despite quotas

Diana Højlund Madsen, The Nordic Africa Institute and Shingirai Mtero, The Nordic Africa Institute Zimbabwe’s 2023 harmonised elections have largely
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Can Nelson Chamisa deliver a new Zimbabwe?

By Tafi Mhaka In July 2018, Zimbabwe’s president and leader of its ruling ZANU-PF party, Emmerson Mnangagwa, narrowly won his
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Zimbabwe at crossroads: 2023 election will determine country’s future

By Charles A. Ray From Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980 until the military “non-coup” that overthrew him in 2017, the late
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Zim Researcher: UK creates ‘hostile environment’ for African sexual and gender diverse asylum claimants

By news.uct.ac.za Increasingly people are fleeing their countries of birth to seek refuge elsewhere in the world. And the reasons
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Q & A: What to expect from Zimbabwe’s tilted polls

Zimbabwe will hold elections on 23 August. As with past votes, the playing field is skewed in favour of the
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Africa Brief: How China benefits from Zimbabwe’s ‘White Gold’

Zimbabwe’s Critical Minerals Law Favours China By Nosmot Gbadamosi, a multimedia journalist and the writer of Foreign Policy’s weekly Africa
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Zimbabwe’s Impending Elections: A Challenge for International Observers

By Larry Garber Zimbabweans head to the polls on Aug. 23 for the second time since Robert Mugabe’s nearly four
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If it still breaks, don’t fix it: time for another election in Zimbabwe

By Stuart Doran ‘I can’t wait until these stupid elections are over and we can just get on with our
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Lessons from Zimbabwe on ending autocracy

By Alec Russell And the winner is . . . In two weeks’ time a five-yearly ritual of electoral injustice and malpractice will unfold in
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Zambia and Zimbabwe turnarounds display drastic dichotomy

By Gary Kleiman I Kleiman International Consultants Neighbours Zambia and Zimbabwe in the common Southern African Development Community (SADC) marked
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