21.2.2026 19:11

China helps Zimbabwe grow US$1.2 billion tobacco crop amid debt, health concerns

South China Morning Post
As Zimbabwe’s largest agricultural export and a primary foreign currency earner, tobacco dominates its trade with Beijing...
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4.3.2025 20:12

Is China’s growing Zimbabwe alliance key to its bigger plans for southern Africa?

Beijing is betting on resources, labour and long ties to makes Zimbabwe a major steel hub,...
2.1.2023 10:08

Export ban means Chinese firms will have to build plants in Zimbabwe to process lithium

Harare has barred exports of the metal – used in electric-vehicle batteries – in its raw...
11.7.2022 10:42

Visit by China’s top diplomat underscores importance of Zimbabwe ties

Country is viewed as a strategic location for spreading Chinese influence....
25.9.2021 5:03

China stopping coal funding could power down Zimbabwe’s energy plans – or renew them

Besides Zimbabwe, Botswana and Mozambique, other countries that may be forced by China’s pivot to stall...
16.2.2021 10:29

Chinese vaccines reach Zimbabwe as it receives its first Sinopharm doses

Shipment of 200,000 vaccines is donated by China and the African country is buying a further...
22.9.2020 7:14

China lectures Zimbabwe on environmental duty and transparency after permits to mine park cancelled

“We don’t need new coal mines. Protecting biodiversity is vital for people, for the planet”...
13.8.2020 7:41

What crisis? Zimbabwe government on defensive after crackdown on dissent 

Government spokesman defends arrests of around 20 activists and opposition figures for peacefully protesting against the...
6.1.2020 7:53

How Zimbabwe’s new parliament symbolises China’s chequebook diplomacy approach to Africa

With China’s help, a new city is taking shape on the outskirts of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare,...
11.12.2019 14:47

Will China ever tire of Zimbabwe’s corruption and bad debt?

Nations have dismissed claims Beijing has pulled the plug on US$1.3 billion of funding for infrastructure...
24.11.2019 6:13

Zimbabwean minister admits quoting wrong Chinese aid figure in his budget: China’s deputy ambassador

Chinese embassy is correct, deputy ambassador says after protesting that the budget understated the aid by...
22.11.2019 6:35

China demands explanation as Zimbabwe understates aid figure by US$133 million

Southern African nation asked to give ‘full and convincing’ account after finance minister says funding from...
12.11.2019 7:13

Will China ever tire of Zimbabwe’s corruption and bad debt?

Nations have dismissed claims Beijing has pulled the plug on US$1.3 billion of funding for infrastructure...
1.8.2019 9:43

One year after Emmerson Mnangagwa’s election, many Zimbabweans regret supporting him

Within months of Mnangagwa’s election, the ghosts of Zimbabwe’s economic past returned: severe power rationing and...

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