Tag: Zimbabwe

• Tuesday, September 15th 2026 - 21:33 UTC

  An archipelago of 3,600 people with 86 nationalities represented

  

  In a population of fewer than four thousand, the English of Stanley's streets sits alongside the Spanish of a sizeable Latin American community, the Tagalog of Filipino residents, the Afrikaans of South Africans and the Shona of Zimbabweans. The 2021 census, the most recent available, recorded 86 nationalities in the Falklands, a British overseas territory whose sovereignty Argentina claims.

• Friday, April 26th 2024 - 05:31 UTC

  Falklands honors and celebrates Zimbabwe Day with deminer families

  

  One of the more than sixty different nationalities that make up the Falkland Islands community and have chosen to call the Islands is Zimbabwe, from the heart of Africa, and accordingly, the Falklands ever so grateful distinguished them at their national day at Government House.

• Wednesday, September 27th 2023 - 08:30 UTC

  How does Falklands figure in the Cable.co.uk global mobile data purchasing report

  

  The latest Cable.co.uk worldwide mobile data purchasing report shows that developed nations plus countries such as Israel, enjoy the cheapest pricing, while at the other end of a long list, figure Zimbabwe, the Falkland Islands, and Saint Helena.

• 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!”