The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has announced an upward adjustment in fuel prices for the month of July, reflecting both global oil market trends and persistent domestic vulnerabilitie

Zimbabwe has maintained its petrol and diesel prices for August, holding steady at US$1.56 per litre and US$1.55 per litre, respectively, according to the latest monthly fuel update from the Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s fuel prices have seen a minor adjustment, with petrol prices dropping by one cent from $1.56 in August to $1.55 in September, while diesel prices have remained unchanged at $1.55, according

Zimbabwe’s trade balance slipped back into deficit in September 2025, recording a shortfall of US$30.8 million after a modest surplus of US$6.9 million in August, a 548.8% swing from black to red. T

Zimbabwe recorded its highest goods trade surplus of USD 240.2 million in December 2025, a 163.8% increase from November, driven primarily by a 9.1% rise in exports to USD 1.142 billion and a 5.6% dec

Libya’s central bank has escalated Zimbabwe’s unresolved external debt problem into a UK courtroom, suing the country’s finance ministry and state oil company for more than US$100 million according t

Africa’s largest crude oil producer, Dangote Petroleum has reached its fully installed production capacity of 650,000 barrels per day (bpd), marking a historic milestone that could fundamentally alter

Zimbabwe's goods trade surplus fell by 52.6% in January 2026, dropping from US$240.1 million in December 2025 to US$113.7 million, the sharpest monthly deterioration in the trade balance in recent mem

On the 28th of February 2026, the world changed. A massive wave of US and Israeli airstrikes tore across Iran in what President Donald Trump described as a bid to permanently destroy the country's nuc

The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA), which sets legally binding ceiling prices for fuel every month, has announced its latest adjustments effective from the start of March 2026. Petrol (E

Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Zhemu Soda has said Zimbabwe holds between two and three months of fuel reserves and that the country's supply position remains secure desp

Shortly after 1:15 a.m. Eastern Time on 28 February 2026, the United States Central Command initiated what it would later name Operation Epic Fury , a coordinated, large-scale joint offensive with Isr

Harare- Oil prices have crossed US$100 per barrel for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Brent crude, the global benchmark, surged well past US$100 when energy markets opened yesterd

The International Energy Agency is reportedly preparing what would be the largest emergency oil reserve release in its history, up to 400 million as early as today. If confirmed, it would be double th

Buy Zimbabwe, an advocate for promoting local production and reducing reliance on imports, says Zimbabwe should deepen its domestic fuel supply chains to shield the economy from global volatility. Th

Puma Energy Zambia, the country's listed downstream fuel distributor and one of the most recognisable names at the Zambian pump, has reported full year results for 2025 that lay bare a business under

The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority raised fuel prices on 18 March 2026, pushing diesel to $2.05 per litre and petrol blend to $2.17 per litre,  increases of 15.8% and 26.9% respectively on the p

A rand that depreciates meaningfully against the dollar would quickly convert the international oil price shock into a domestic fuel shock of the kind that pushed South African inflation to 7.8% at it

Ultimately, the ZiG remains an unreliable store of value and a symbol of the country’s economic mismanagement. If Zimbabwe’s currency had life and the backing it claims, it would have responded to the

Zimbabwe's petrol blend carries an embedded cost that most consumers see only as the final pump price but rarely interrogate as an individual line item. That cost is ethanol. The Zimbabwe Energy Regul