Browsing: Southern Africa

A huge spillage of mining waste has polluted two key rivers in Zambia – destroying crops and farmers’ livelihoods in the process. It’s reignited debate over…

During an address to a joint session of Congress on 4 March, US President Donald Trump mocked the African nation of Lesotho as a country ‘which…

Lesotho’s foreign ministry said it was unaware of the funds Trump mentioned. The ministry’s spokesperson Kutloano Pheko told the BBC that perhaps the money was channelled…

A sombre mood engulfed the Namibian capital, Windhoek, on Friday, 28 February, 2025, as thousands gathered to give a final salute to the nation’s founding father…

Pan-Africanist icon and Zimbabwe’s first post-independence leader, Robert Mugabe, was born on this day, 21 February, in 1924. The larger-than-life politician, who died of cancer at…

Zimbabwe’s finance minister, Mthuli Ncube, says the country is on course to meet a 2028 target for compensating White farmers whose land was expropriated. In 2019,…

A video of a Chinese mine manager threatening to shoot a Zimbabwean worker who was demanding his unpaid wages has reignited the debate over foreign investors’…

On 20 January, a group of Zimbabweans protested against plans by the ruling ZANU-PF party to scrap presidential term limits to allow President Emmerson Mnangagwa to…

For decades, the Southern African region has been the epicentre of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Most of the countries in the region have HIV prevalence rates of…

Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe have united against a proposed UK bill that seeks to ban the importation of wildlife trophies from Africa.…