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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 becomes the first country in Africa to approve India's Covaxin vaccine manufactured by Bharat Biotech.
2021-03-4

Zimbabwe's government signs a $3.5 billion agreement with the Commercial Farmers' Union to compensate white farmers who were forcibly evicted from their land during a controversial land redistribution program in the 2000s under former President Robert Mugabe.
2020-07-29

Zimbabwean authorities arrest dozens of protesters as anti-government protests spread across the country.
2016-07-7

Thousands of opposition supporters rally in Harare, Zimbabwe, against President Robert Mugabe and the deteriorating economy. The rally was banned by the police, however, it went ahead after a ruling by the High Court sanctioned the protest.
2016-04-14

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission says that Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party has won 142 seats of 210 seats in the general election.
2013-08-2

A South African court rules that the country is obliged under international law to investigate human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.
2012-05-8

The South African Development Community demands an end to the political violence in Zimbabwe, amid tensions in the unity government.
2011-04-1

The Zimbabwean Energy Minister and member of the Movement for Democratic Change, Elton Mangoma, is arrested for unknown reasons.
2011-03-10

A court in Zimbabwe frees 38 people detained for weeks on charges of attempting to overthrow President Robert Mugabe, after they watched videos of the Arab Spring.
2011-03-7