Zimbabwe sanctions: The government and the West play the blame game

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President Robert Mugabe has shocked Zimbabwe with a televised address that failed to announce his highly anticipated resignation.

White Zimbabwean farmer Rob Smart and his two sons returned to their farm with ululations from former workers six months after he was forced out by police during ex-president Robert Mugabe's reign.

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa escaped unhurt after an explosion rocked a stadium in Bulawayo where he had addressed a political rally on Saturday, for more CNBC Africa is joined by Political Consultant and Strategist Acie Lumumba.

Oliver Mtukudzi, Zimbabwe's most successful and internationally renowned artist, has died.

Zimbabwean journalist, Zenzele says Fmr President Mugabe's funeral came with a lot of mixed reactions from the people of Zimbabwe. While some were sad and confused, others took it as life as usual as most didn't like him, they went about their business as usual but it was a great turnout for most African leaders.

In Zimbabwean towns, food tastes have become westernised, but in the countryside, there remains a time-honoured tradition of eating insects. The chafer beetle, also called the Christmas beetle, is a dark-red bug which proliferates in the southern hemisphere country at this time of year.

Hopewell Chin'ono didn't set out to become an internet sensation when he made a song about corruption in Zimbabwe, but that's exactly what happened when he uploaded 'Dem Loot' to Twitter. The outspoken Zimbabwean journalist has been arrested three times in six months for tweets protesting graft. In a video that has gone viral, Chin'ono has released a short free-styled reggae dance-hall track, titled Dem Loot -- "They Loot" -- in which he chastises rampant state corruption in the southern African country.

Jeffrey Moyo, a Zimbabwean freelance reporter for the New York Times, walks out of prison after he was granted bail three weeks following his arrest over claims he helped two foreign colleagues enter the country fraudulently. The New York Times had said at the time of Moyo's detention that the paper was "deeply concerned" by his arrest. "Jeffrey is a widely respected journalist with many years of reporting experience in Zimbabwe and his detainment raises troubling questions about the state of press freedom in Zimbabwe," it had added in a statement.

Surgeons in South Africa are preparing to reconstruct the face of a Zimbabwean boy mauled by a hyena during a nighttime church service.

Zimbabwean farmers looking to cash in on a global boom in medical marijuana face a litany of costs and regulatory barriers, but growers like Munyaradzi Nyanungo are betting it will boost their fortunes after decades of economic decline.

After facing years of trial for attending an anti-government protest in her country in 2020, the acclaimed novelist has finally been acquitted. The Booker Prize nominee calls for justice for those mistreated by the law.