Tag: Southern Africa
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🇿🇲 Zambia Draws a Line: $1.5 Billion U.S. Health Deal Stripped of Data and Minerals Clauses
Zambia has signed a five-year, $1.5 billion U.S. health financing agreement after negotiating the removal of controversial biological-specimen and patient-data provisions and separating health cooperation from critical-minerals negotiations.
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🇿🇼 The $1.2 Billion Question: Zimbabwe, Gold, Political Power and the ‘Gold Mafia’
Al Jazeera’s Gold Mafia investigation exposed allegations surrounding Zimbabwe’s gold-smuggling networks and a proposed operation to move as much as $1.2 billion in cash into the country. A recorded conversation involving Uebert Angel and First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa became one of the investigation’s most controversial episodes, raising questions about political access, diplomatic privileges, gold laundering…
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🇬🇭 Africa’s Organised Crime Index 2025: 23 Countries Face High Criminality and Weak Resilience
The 2025 Africa Organised Crime Index finds that organised crime has expanded across the continent since 2019 while resilience has weakened. Twenty-three African countries face the combination of high criminality and low resilience, with financial crime, trafficking, resource crime, counterfeit goods and arms trafficking among the continent’s most pervasive criminal markets.
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🇿🇼 Zimbabwe Probes Helicopter Crash That Killed Businessman Wicknell Chivayo
Zimbabwe Probes Helicopter Crash That Killed Businessman Wicknell Chivayo HARARE, Zimbabwe — October 1, 2026 — Zimbabwean authorities have opened an investigation into the helicopter crash that killed prominent businessman Wicknell Munodaani Chivayo, his wife Lucy Muteke and other people aboard the aircraft near Marondera. The helicopter crashed on Wednesday evening, September 30, in the…
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Anti-Migrant Protests Trigger Economic Shockwaves Across South Africa
South Africa is experiencing growing economic disruption as escalating anti-migrant protests force tens of thousands of foreign nationals to leave the country, affecting key industries that depend heavily on migrant labour. From domestic services and food delivery to textile manufacturing, businesses are reporting significant operational challenges as workers flee amid rising hostility and insecurity. The…
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Angola Opens a New Gateway to Africa with Dr. António Agostinho Neto International Airport
Angola has taken a significant step toward strengthening its role in African aviation with the successful transition of commercial airline operations to Dr. António Agostinho Neto International Airport. The new airport, located outside Luanda, represents one of the continent’s largest aviation infrastructure investments and signals Angola’s determination to become a major gateway for passengers, cargo,…