Zimbabwe is fighting a cholera outbreak that claimed the lives of almost 500 people, and in order to contain a new outbreak, the country has started an emergency polio vaccination campaign.
The Zimbabwean dollar took a nosedive and was trading at more than 6000 against the dollar on Monday, up from about 2600 on the black market, showing that efforts by the central bank of Zimbabwe to arrest the sharp depreciation of the country’s currency are failing.
At a cost of nearly $200 million, the Chinese government has completed building Zimbabwe’s new parliament building outside the country’s capital, Harare. However, detractors claim there are worries about security and China’s expanding influence. It replaces a colonial-era building
Duramazwi Traditional Mbira Dance Troupe performed at Haka Game Park in Msasa, Harare, along the Cleaveland Dam. The group is expected to be performing at the next Dubai Expo
High unemployment and poverty are pushing Zimbabwe’s laborers into mining for gold in disused and dangerous mine shafts that too often turn into death traps
The body of the late president Robert Mugabe leaves his Blue Roof residence after some people paid their last respects. The body will lie in state Thursday and Friday at Rufaro Stadium in Harare