Robert Mugabe
A nurse holds a vaccination card given to people who get a shot of China's Sinopharm vaccine, at local hospital in Harare, Thursday, Feb, 18, 2021 Zimbabwean Deputy President Constatino Chiwenga become the first person in the country to receive the jab, marking the first phase of the country's vaccination campaign.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Zimbabwe starts administering China's Sinopharm vaccines

By Farai Mutsaka Feb. 18, 2021 09:17 AM EST

Zimbabwe receives first vaccines from Sinopharm in China

By Farai Mutsaka Feb. 14, 2021 11:25 PM EST
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has received its first COVID-19 vaccines with the arrival early Monday of an Air Zimbabwe jet carrying 200,000 Sinopharm doses...

Zimbabwe to receive delivery of China's Sinopharm vaccines

By Farai Mutsaka Feb. 14, 2021 12:00 PM EST
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe is preparing to receive its first delivery of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, saying the shipment will first undergo ...

Pallbearers stand next to coffins of three top government officials at their burial at the National Heroes acre in Harare, Wednesday, Jan, 27, 2021. Zimbabwe on Wednesday buried three top officials who succumbed to COVID-19, in a single ceremony at a shrine reserved almost exclusively for the ruling elite as a virulent second wave of the coronavirus takes a devastating toll on the country.( AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Zimbabwe holds burial for 3 top leaders who died of COVID-19

By Farai Mutsaka Jan. 27, 2021 09:54 AM EST

A preacher is disinfected by a health worker, during a burial of a person who died from COVID-19, in Harare, Friday, Jan, 15, 2021. Zimbabwe, battling a spike in new COVID-19 cases, has banned families from transporting their dead relatives between cities, as part of new measures to stop traditional funeral rites that are believed to be increasing the spread of the disease. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Zimbabwe's foreign minister dies of COVID-19 amid resurgence

By Farai Mutsaka Jan. 20, 2021 06:15 AM EST

Zimbabwean journalist Hopwell Chin'ono arrives at the magistrates courts in Harare, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. On Friday, Zimbabwe police arrested the prominent journalist for the third time in six months. Chin’ono posted on his Twitter account that police had picked him from his house and said they were charging him with “communicating falsehoods.” (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Jailed Zimbabwean journalist urges isolation due to virus

By Farai Mutsaka Jan. 12, 2021 09:19 AM EST

Zimbabwe Cabinet approves proposal to criminalize protests

By Farai Mutsaka Oct. 28, 2020 11:11 AM EDT
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s cabinet has approved proposed legislation that would make it a crime for activists to make “unsubstantiated claims” of human...

Tsitsi Dangerembga, left, prominent Zimbabwean author and Fadzayi Mahere, right, spokeswoman for the main opposition party, appear at the magistrates courts with others in Harare, Saturday, Aug, 1, 2020. Police arrested scores of people in Harare and other towns in Friday's protests according to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Zimbabwe continues arrests of critics, says opposition party

By Farai Mutsaka Aug. 03, 2020 08:34 AM EDT

Gary Strafford, a Zimbabwean falconer, holds an owl inside one of the cages at his bird sanctuary, Kuimba Shiri, near Harare, Zimbabwe, Wednesday, June, 17, 2020. Kuimba Shiri, Zimbabwe's only bird park, has survived tumultuous times, including violent land invasions and a devastating economic collapse. Now the outbreak of COVID-19 is proving a stern test. With Zimbabwe’s inflation currently at more than 750%, tourism establishments are battling a vicious economic downturn worsened by the new coronavirus travel restrictions. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Zimbabwe bird sanctuary has 400 species, not enough tourists

By Farai Mutsaka Jul. 11, 2020 03:08 AM EDT

FILE-In this March 14, 2019 file photo Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The World Health Organization’s director-general has faced many challenges during the coronavirus pandemic: racial slurs, death threats, social media caricatures — he was once depicted as a ventriloquist’s dummy in the hands of Chinese President Xi Jinping — and U.S. funding cuts. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
UN health agency chief unbowed amid attacks, Trump criticism

By Jamey Keaten May. 14, 2020 03:44 AM EDT

In this photo taken Thursday, April 30, 2020, a worker sprays chemicals on a tobacco crop before they are stored in a tobacco barn at a farm outside Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. Troubled Zimbabwe has officially opened the tobacco selling season after a month-long delay amid a coronavirus lockdown. Tobacco is the country's second biggest foreign currency earner after gold, and it brought in about $750 million last year. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Troubled Zimbabwe hopes for some relief in tobacco sales

By Farai Mutsaka May. 08, 2020 05:00 AM EDT

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 6, 2019, file photo, vehicles are seen leaving the Gleneagles Hospital in Singapore where former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe had received medical treatment in the years before his death. The coronavirus pandemic could narrow one gaping inequality in Africa, where some heads of state and other elite jet off to Europe or Asia for health care unavailable in their nations but as global travel restrictions tighten, they might have to take their chances at home. (AP Photo/Danial Hakim, File)
African elite who once sought treatment abroad are grounded

By Cara Anna Apr. 04, 2020 02:59 AM EDT