Zimbabwe intends to seek a sovereign credit rating as its re-engagement programme advances. * Public and publicly guaranteed debt stood at an estimated US$22.8 billion at the end of 2025. * A rating w

* Foreign reserves reached US$1.7 billion by end-July, covering 1.7 months of imports. * First-half foreign-currency receipts increased 47.8% to US$10.72 billion. * Two months of cover remains below t

Zimbabwe’s economy rebounded 5.8% quarter-on-quarter in the second quarter of 2026, recovering from a 3.5% contraction in the first quarter, but the stronger quarterly performance came alongside a sha

Zimbabwe’s private-sector credit stock is equivalent to only 6.5% of GDP, according to the World Bank’s Zimbabwe Country Growth and Jobs Report, compared with approximately 22% in Côte d’Ivoire, 32%

Zimbabwe’s human-capital problem is increasingly becoming an allocation problem, as the  country has a relatively educated workforce, yet the formal private sector remains too small to absorb the peop

TN CyberTech Bank is using technology to attack one of Zimbabwe’s persistent banking problems, the economics of serving customers who need small amounts of credit but are too expensive to reach throug

South Africa imported about 1.8 million tonnes of wheat between October 2025 and early September 2026, led by Poland, as domestic production remained below the requirements of millers and food manufac

Zimbabwe’s competition watchdog, the Competition and Tariff Commission, has conditionally cleared Mega Market Private Limited’s proposed acquisition of 100% of Lobels Holdings, imposing behavioural re