Multitudes of people thronged the National Stadium in Gaborone, Botswana’s capital city, on Friday to witness the inauguration of Duma Boko as the southern African country’s sixth president. Boko promised that his government would create a brighter tomorrow with support from the citizens during the ceremony. “We will create the Botswana we all desire. You have given me strength and hope, and I am prepared to return strength and hope to you a thousandfold. I say to you, dare to…

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has called for the “immediate and unconditional” removal of economic sanctions on Zimbabwe, describing them as “illegal measures that violate the basic human rights of ordinary Zimbabweans.”  This call came on the 25th of October, which SADC has designated as Anti-Sanctions Day, a day set aside annually to spotlight and protest against the sanctions imposed on SADC member states.  In a media statement released on Friday, October 25, 2024, Zimbabwean President and SADC Chairperson…

Zimbabwe and China enjoy a time-honored friendship and are now carrying out fruitful cooperation in the political, economic and social sectors, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. African Times has published this article in partnership with Xinhua News Agency

HARARE, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) — Atop a hill about six km south of downtown Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, lies a revered shrine where Zimbabwe’s departed heroes are laid to rest. Every second Monday of August, Zimbabweans gather at the shrine overlooking Harare to pay tribute to liberation war fighters who took up arms and fought colonialism to deliver the country from the shackles of British colonial rule. The day comes as a reminder to Zimbabweans, particularly young people, that the freedom they…

HARARE, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) — Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday said the country has attained food security during a campaign rally in Harare, the national capital, to drum up support for his ruling ZANU-PF party in the upcoming harmonized election on Aug. 23. “We are food secure, we shall continue to remain food secure,” Mnangagwa said amid loud cheers from party supporters. “We addressed the question of food security at the household level.”  Mnangagwa, who came to power in…

THE emergence of a leading figure in the faction of the now-late former president, Robert Mugabe, to contest against his successor and incumbent, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has sent the ruling party into panic mode ahead of the August 23 general elections. Saviour Kasukuwere (53), a former cabinet colleague of Mnangagwa under Mugabe, has by throwing his name into the presidential race, thrust the cat among the pigeons as the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) saunters towards the watershed…