Zimbabwe's 2026 cotton marketing season has opened against a backdrop that is, for the first time in more than a decade, genuinely encouraging. The Agricultural Marketing Authority's nationwide crop v

The Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency has put the Food Poverty Line for one person in May 2026 at ZWG 916.59 per month, which translates to USD 36.66 per month or USD 1.22 per day using the formal m

For employers, executives, professionals, and households alike, the key issue is not simply which medical aid scheme is cheapest or most expensive.The more important question is whether the protection

The African Development Bank's Africa Industrialisation Index 2025, which ranks all 54 African countries on the depth, quality, and diversification of their industrial development, has delivered a ver

Zimbabwe’s May 2026 inflation data, released by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency, confirmed a picture that is simultaneously encouraging and instructive. Annual blended inflation was 3.2%, whil

Zambia Sugar PLC, the Lusaka Securities Exchange-listed producer and the dominant supplier in Zambia's sugar market, reported profit after tax of K273.247 million (USD 15.350 million) for the six mont

Metal Fabricators of Zambia PLC, the Lusaka Securities Exchange-listed copper cable and wire manufacturer, reported a loss before income tax of ZMW 43.775 million (USD 2.459 million) for the six month

For the better part of a decade, Zimbabwe’s banking sector operated on a model that would be unrecognisable in most developed financial markets. Fees and commissions, not interest income from lending,

CBZ Holdings Limited, Zimbabwe’s largest financial services group by assets and deposits, reported profit after tax of ZWG 361.34 million for the first quarter ended 31 March 2026, a 32.8% decline fro

Zimbabwe gold, small-scale mining, foreign mining ban, citizen empowerment, gold smuggling, Fidelity Gold Refinery, mining policy, Polite Kambamura, US$15m threshold, resource nationalism

On 22 May 2026, Zimbabwe formally published its Mineral Classification and Declaration, designating lithium, platinum group metals, cobalt, nickel, graphite, copper, rare earths, and chrome as Critica

Zimbabwe’s horticultural trade relationship with China entered a structurally new phase on 1 May 2026, when Beijing’s zero-tariff policy for 53 African countries came into full effect. For Zimbabwean