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Zimbabwe journalist Hopewell Chin’ono arrested for third time in six months

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‘I need money for school’: the children forced to pan for gold in Zimbabwe

Covid has closed schools and caused economic collapse – now children are taking up the dangerous...

Zimbabwe journalist Hopewell Chin’ono has bail hearing postponed

EU and UK voice concern as anti-corruption campaigner faces another weekend in jail...

‘Lives have been lost’: Pregnant women in Zimbabwe forced to pay bribes when giving birth

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‘We are drinking sewage water’: Zimbabwe shortages threaten thousands

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Shingai Shoniwa: ‘My hair isn’t intimidating – it’s an expression of who I am’

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Pressure grows on Zimbabwe to free detained student leader

International groups join calls for the release of Takudzwa Ngadziore, held for protesting against Mnangagwa’s regime...

Zimbabwe teachers refuse to return to work over low pay and lack of sanitation

An acute shortage of sanitiser, PPE and clean water is putting pupils and school staff at...

Charges against Tsitsi Dangarembga must be dropped, argue writers

The Zimbabwean novelist, shortlisted for this year’s Booker prize for This Mournable Body, is accused of...

Journalist Hopewell Chin’ono speaks out over brutal Zimbabwe prison conditions

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