Tag: Zimbabwe

• Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 09:11 UTC

  Interpol crackdown on US$ 117 million dangerous counterfeit food and drink

  

  Police in 78 countries have arrested 672 people as part of a coordinated global crackdown on potentially dangerous counterfeit food and drink, international police agency Interpol announced on Friday.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Hundreds killed by cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi

  

  Cyclone Idai has triggered a “massive disaster” in southern Africa affecting hundreds of thousands if not millions of people, the UN says. The region has been hit by widespread flooding and devastation affecting Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

• Friday, November 17th 2017 - 06:58 UTC

  Mugabe tarnished the jewel that is Zimbabwe, now is its chance to shine again

  

  By Boris Johnson - The most accurate description of Zimbabwe in the era of Robert Mugabe came from a fellow leader of the struggle against white rule. It was Samora Machel, then president of Mozambique and a fervent enemy of colonialism, who told Mugabe in 1980 that Zimbabwe was the “jewel of Africa”, adding: “Don’t tarnish it!”