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Prisoners are closely guarded at Chikurubi Maximum Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe on Jan. 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)

Zimbabwe’s president once faced the death penalty and is now set to abolish it

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

FILE- A screen shows live footage of Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speech during a news program in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, file)

In Africa, meager expectations and some hopes for a second Trump presidency

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

A woman scoops water from a hole she has dug in a dried up riverbed in Lusitu, Zambia, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Southern Africa endures its worst hunger crisis in decades. Drought from El Nino to blame, U.N. says

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

The sun sets behind a baobab tree, known as the tree of life, in Mudzi, Zimbabwe, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

An ancient African tree is providing a new ‘superfood’ yet local harvesters are barely surviving

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa, center, inspects an honor guard from a military truck during the 44th Zimbabwe Defence Forces Day comemorations at Rufaro Stadium in Harare, Tuesday Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

Southern African leaders meet amid mpox concerns and a political crackdown in summit host Zimbabwe

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

A woman holds the new Zimbabwean banknotes and coins called the ZiG, in the streets of Harare, Zimbabwe, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Zimbabwe started circulating banknotes and coins for another new currency Tuesday in its latest attempt to solve a long-running and at times baffling monetary crisis that has seen the government try gold coins and a digital currency among other ideas. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwe’s ZiG is the world’s newest currency and its latest attempt to resolve a money crisis

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

FILE - James Tshuma, a farmer in Mangwe district in southwestern Zimbabwe, stands in the middle of his dried up crop field amid a drought, in Zimbabwe, Friday, March, 22, 2024. Zimbabwe declared a state of disaster Wednesday, April 3, 2024, over a devastating drought that's sweeping across much of southern Africa, with the country’s president saying it needs $2 billion for humanitarian assistance. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)

Zimbabwe declares drought disaster, the latest in a region where El Nino has left millions hungry

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

James Tshuma, a farmer in Mangwe district in southwestern Zimbabwe,stands in the middle of his dried up crop field amid a drought in Zimbabwe, Friday, March, 22, 2024. A new drought has left millions facing hunger in southern Africa as they experience the effects of extreme weather that scientists say is becoming more frequent and more damaging. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Extreme drought in southern Africa leaves millions hungry

By Farai Mutsaka and Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Opposition supporters carry the coffin with the body of Moreblessing Ali, at her burial on the outskirts of Harare, Saturday, March, 2, 2024. A Zimbabwean activist slain two years ago was finally laid buried Saturday at a low key but tension filled event where tensions among party members betrayed the state of the country once promising opposition, which appears collapsing under the weight of infighting and allied state repression. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

At the funeral of a slain Zimbabwean activist, clashes and a low turnout mirror opposition decline

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FILE - Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa attends a session at the Africa Pavilion at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 7, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Zimbabwe’s Cabinet has agreed to back a move in Parliament to abolish the death penalty, a punishment that was last used in the southern African nation nearly 20 years ago. Mnangagwa, who won reelection for a second term in Aug, 2023, has repeatedly expressed his opposition to the death penalty, citing his own personal experience when he was sentenced to death in the 1960s for blowing up a train during Zimbabwe's independence war, when the country was called Rhodesia and under white minority rule. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Zimbabwe’s president cancels a renewable energy speech after a bomb scare at Victoria Falls Airport

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

FILE - Tourists wear face masks at the entrance of the Victoria Falls in Victoria Falls on Aug, 6, 2021. An Australian tourist has gone missing in Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls National Park, home to one of the world’s natural wonders, the country’s parks spokesman said. Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority spokesman Tinashe Farawo told The Associated Press that the tourist went missing in the vast rainforest on Friday Feb. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Tichaona Muketiwa, File)

Australian tourist missing in Zimbabwe not seen for 9 days, officials say in new details

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

Zimbabwean Deputy President Constantino Chiwenga, centre, attends the official opening of the tobacco marketing season in Harare, Zimbabwe, Wednesday, March, 8, 2023. Zimbabwe’s powerful vice president said the government will block a university scholarship for young LGBTQ+ people, a move that human rights groups described Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, as a perpetuation of the African country's homophobic practices. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)

Zimbabwe’s vice president says the government will block a scholarship for LGBTQ+ people

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Namibia's President Hage Geingob returns after delivering a speech during celebrations marking the 75th anniversary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, on Nov. 12, 2021. Namibian president has died in a hospital where he was receiving treatment, his office said Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. (Juilen de Rosa/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Namibia’s president and anti-apartheid activist Hage Geingob dies at 82

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

A woman takes a break from the queue outside the passport offices in Harare, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. Atop many Christmas wish lists in economically troubled Zimbabwe is a travel document and people are flooding the passport office this holiday season ahead of a price hike planned in the New Year. The desperation at the office in the capital is palpable as some people fear the hike could push the cost of obtaining a passport out of reach and economic gloom feeds a surge in migration. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

A Christmas rush to get passports to leave Zimbabwe is fed by economic gloom and a price hike

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

An elderly woman pushes a wheelbarrow past campaign posters in Mabvuku on the outskirts of Harare, Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023. Zimbabwe was holding by-elections Saturday for nine seats in Parliament after opposition lawmakers were removed from their positions and disqualified from standing again in what they have called an illegal push by the ruling ZANU-PF party to bolster its majority and have the power to change the constitution. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwe holds special elections after court rules to remove 9 opposition lawmakers from Parliament

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Suspected cholera patients wait inside a tent at a clinic, in Harare, Zimbabwe, Sunday Nov. 19, 2023. A cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe is suspected of killing more than 150 people and infecting more than 8,000. The virulent bacterial disease is striking fear in many in the southern African country who live in impoverished and neglected areas where sanitation conditions are poor and local government failures have left them with no access to clean water. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

A cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe is suspected of killing more than 150 and is leaving many terrified

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

Namibia players waves the fans after the Rugby World Cup Pool A match between Uruguay and Namibia at the OL Stadium in Lyon, France, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. African rugby struggles to be competitive, and is a gold mine of talent without the means to unearth it. Rugby Africa president Herbert Mensah welcomed the decision this week to expand the 2027 Rugby World Cup in Australia from 20 teams to 24.(AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)

The Springboks are not truly representative of African rugby. African rugby is struggling

By Enock Muchinjo - Associated Press

Health workers attend to patients suffering from cholera symptoms at a local hospital in Harare, Tuesday, Sept., 11, 2018. Zimbabwe has recorded 100 suspected deaths from cholera and more than 5,000 possible cases since late Sept. 2023. That has prompted the government to impose restrictions to stop the spread of the disease, including limiting numbers at funerals and stopping some social gatherings in affected areas. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)

Zimbabwe announces 100 suspected cholera deaths and imposes restrictions on gatherings

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

This photo provided by an anonymous source shows local councilor for Zimbabwe's main opposition party, Womberaiishe Nhende lying on a hospital bed in Harare, Sunday Sept. 3, 2023. Barely a week after being elected as a local councilor for Zimbabwe's main opposition party, Womberaiishe Nhende and a relative were pulled out of their car by unidentified men, shot with a stun gun and handcuffed. They were then bundled into a pickup truck and driven about 70 kilometers (more than 40 miles) outside of Harare, the capital, where they were whipped, beaten with truncheons and interrogated, and injected with an unknown substance, their lawyers say. (UGC Via AP)

Zimbabwe’s reelected president says there’s democracy as beating and torture allegations emerge

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

Zimbabwe's main opposition party deputy spokesperson Gift Siziba addresses a press conference in Harare, Tuesday, Aug, 29, 2023. Siziba told reporters at a news conference that the party was demanding fresh elections supervised by neighbouring countries, digging in on its rejection of of last weeks polls that gave President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his party a majority.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwe opposition party calls for fresh elections supervised by neighboring countries

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press