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Young Zimbabweans are using YouTube to ridicule politicians and educate voters

As Zimbabwe holds its 2023 elections, young creatives are taking to social media like YouTube to discuss politics and to create comic spoofs and critiques that speak back to the country’s autocratic government.

The Conversation

Violence in Zimbabwe’s villages imperils hope of smooth elections

Across rural Zimbabwe, there have been reports of violence by supporters of the governing and main opposition parties.

Al Jazeera

Zimbabwe goes to polls amid deepening economic crisis

Promises to get inflation and unemployment on track after decades of Mugabe rule have failed to materialise

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Ruling party, opposition hold last-push rallies for Zimbabwe’s vote

Zimbabwe’s governing party and main opposition candidates are hoping to outdo each other in the August 23 elections.

Al Jazeera

Voter fatigue edges out optimism as Zimbabwe holds 2nd general election since Mugabe's ouster

A general election Wednesday in Zimbabwe is crucial to determining the future of a southern African nation endowed with vast mineral resources and rich agricultural land

The Independent UK

Zimbabwe's opposition hopes election will break ruling party stranglehold

Zimbabwe goes to the polls this week for an election many hope could end the country's lengthy economic crisis, but those expectations are tempered by concerns that the contest is skewed in favour of a party that has been in power for more than four decades.

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Zimbabwe's president, a former guerrilla fighter known as 'the crocodile,' is seeking reelection

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is a former guerrilla fighter and bodyguard who responded to being fired as vice president by unseating long-ruling autocrat Robert Mugabe in a coup

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Ambushes and teargas: Zimbabwe opposition suffers as election arrives

Reports of growing repression cast doubt on credibility of polls in country struggling with corruption, inflation and poverty

The Guardian - UK

Five key issues at stake in the Zimbabwe elections

Ahead of the August 23 election, multiple issues are at stake including Zimbabwe’s long-running economic woes.

Al Jazeera

Zimbabwe’s president was security minister when genocidal rape was state policy in 1983-4. Now he seeks another term

Trigger warning: this article contains accounts of sexual violence.

The Conversation

Zimbabwe election: Your guide to how the electoral system works

The August 23 general election, Zimbabwe’s 9th since independence in 1980. Here’s a simple guide to the entire process.

Al Jazeera

In rural Zimbabwe, a group of grandmothers counters alleged election intimidation, bias on WhatsApp

Ahead of national elections next week, some people in Zimbabwe's rural areas say they are facing intimidation from supporters of the long-ruling ZANU-PF party and a biased state-run media that restricts their options

The Independent UK

Zimbabwe: Opposition leader Chamisa promises new dawn if elected president

The 45-year-old is contesting the presidency for the second time in five years against incumbent President Mnangagwa.

Al Jazeera

‘We need power’: Zimbabweans hope for end to blackouts as election nears

For many businesses in Zimbabwe where the economy is in free fall, electricity outages have been the norm for years.

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Zimbabwe's president tells supporters they will go to heaven if they vote for his party this month

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged thousands of his supporters at a rally to deliver a “thunderous victory” in this month’s national election and proclaimed that “no one will stop us from ruling this country.”

The Independent UK

The killing of an opposition supporter in Zimbabwe was by ruling party followers, witnesses say

Witnesses say a deadly attack on a Zimbabwean opposition supporter was the work of ruling party followers, underlining fears of a violent buildup to this month’s general election

The Guardian - UK

Zimbabwe opposition supporter dies in ambush on way to election rally

Information ministry calls for calm after attack by suspected supporters of country’s ruling Zanu-PF party

The Independent UK

Zimbabwe's opposition leader tells AP intimidation is forcing voters to choose ruling party or death

Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of violating the law and tearing apart independent institutions to cling to power

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Zimbabwe's opposition party claims that a supporter was stoned to death by ruling party's activists

Zimbabwe’s main opposition party says that one of its supporters was stoned to death by ruling party activists while on the way to a political rally

Al Jazeera

Russia making efforts to avert food crisis, Putin tells African nations

Russian president offers free grain to six African countries days after withdrawing from Ukraine grain export deal.

The Independent UK

A sex offender freed in Zimbabwe's amnesty gains social media fame. His victim's family is dismayed

The mother of a 15-year-old Zimbabwean rape victim has gone to the country's High Court to challenge the early release of the man convicted of attacking her daughter when she was a preteen

The Independent UK

Iranian president arrives in Zimbabwe to anti-West songs for the last stop on a rare Africa trip

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi has been welcomed in Zimbabwe by people singing songs criticizing the West

The Independent UK

Election tensions rise in Zimbabwe after police bar opposition party from holding a rally

Opposition party supporters in Zimbabwe have been chanting and singing freedom songs outside a courthouse Sunday following a decision to ban them from holding a rally six weeks before national elections

The Independent UK

Zimbabwe's main opposition party goes to court to challenge a police decision to ban its rally

Zimbabwe’s main opposition party has gone to court to challenge a police decision to ban a rally it wants to hold in the buildup to what will be highly scrutinized elections next month

The Independent UK

A Chinese mining company has opened a giant lithium processing plant in Zimbabwe

A Chinese mining company on Wednesday commissioned a $300 million lithium processing plant in Zimbabwe

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