Sources: BBC
Zimbabwe begins issuing the first financial compensation payments to White Zimbabwean farmers whose farms were seized by Robert Mugabe's government between 2000 and 2002. A total of 740 farmers will be compensated as per the 2020 agreement with the Commercial Farmers' Union. 2025-04-10
Zimbabweans vote for a president and members of the National Assembly. 2023-08-23
Zimbabwe releases over 4,000 prisoners to address prison overcrowding. The country, with a maximum prison capacity of 17,000 inmates, currently has more than 20,000 people in prison. 2023-05-19
Zimbabwe reports a record for the fourth consecutive day of 86 deaths from COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 2,418. 2021-07-16
12 people, including Booker Prize-nominated author Tsitsi Dangarembga, are released from detention by Zimbabwean authorities for participating in anti-government protests in the capital of Harare yesterday. They are to return for trials on September 18. 2020-08-1
Robert Mugabe, the second president of Zimbabwe, dies at the age of 95. 2019-09-6
At least 42 people have died while more than 20 others are injured in a deadly fire aboard a bus in Zimbabwe. 2018-11-16
The president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, is awarded the Confucius Peace Prize, sometimes characterized as a Chinese alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize. 2015-10-23
The South African Development Community urges opposing parties in Zimbabwe to settle differences to enable elections to be held. 2011-06-13
Zimbabwe requests apologies from American, German and European Union envoys who walked out of the burial ceremony for President Robert Mugabe's sister; they refuse to apologise. 2010-08-3