There have been chaotic scenes at Zimbabwe’s Harare International Airport after a safety drill was mistaken for a real plane accident. The BBC’s Brian Hungwe, at the airport, says he saw a large plume of smoke and helicopters over the...

More than 45, 000 teachers have left Zimbabwe to look for greener pastures abroad in the past decade, a new report indicates. An unprecedented economic decline blamed on the political squabbles and President Robert Mugabe’s questionable policies...

Militant supporters of President Robert Mugabe have set up torture camps in some parts of Zimbabwe and stepped up a campaign to intimidate villagers to back the controversial Kariba draft constitution as the basis of a new governance charter for...

Twenty-two people, mainly children below the age of 5, have died of measles in Zimbabwe, the country’s state media reported. The World Health Organization (WHO) said two weeks ago it was “deeply frustrated” by the measles outbreak,...

The issue of whether to allow residents outside the country to use the postal voting facility has been raging on since government decided, in 2005, to restrict the use of the postal voting system to government officials and their spouses outside the...

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe on Friday said he was shocked at Dumiso Dabengwa’s decision to back Simba Makoni’s presidential ambitions, as reports surfaced that the ex-Zipra intelligence chief had turned down an offer to be Zanu PF vice-president. Under...