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Gas cylinders explode at a gold mine in Mazowe, Zimbabwe, killing seven people and injuring another.
2021-10-8

Zimbabwe reports its first cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant. The variant had been detected among a group of people in the central town of Kwekwe after a student returned from India on April 29.
2021-05-19

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

Zimbabwe says it will return land that was seized from foreigners between 2000 and 2001, saying foreign citizens who had their land seized, mostly Dutch, British and German nationals, could now apply to get it back. The government says black farmers who received land under the controversial land reform programme would now be moved to allow the former owners "to regain possession".
2020-09-1

Zimbabwe summons the U.S. envoy for comments by U.S. National Security Advisor Robert C. O'Brien suggesting that Zimbabwe is among "foreign adversaries" that could face retaliation for trying to foment unrest in the U.S. over the killing of George Floyd.
2020-06-1

An unprecedented drought in Zimbabwe, considered the worst in a century, causes the Victoria Falls waterfall on the Zambezi river to nearly stop flowing.
2019-12-7

Four Finnish tourists and a Zimbabwean pilot are killed when a Cessna S206 crashes in Masvingo Province, in southern Zimbabwe. Two Finnish business leaders were among the dead: Pekka Ojanpää, the CE of the maintenance services and circular economy company Lassila & Tikanoja, and Heikki Vappula, a director of the forestry company UPM.
2018-11-23

Five people are killed in an explosion at a healer's home in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe, causing hundreds to flee and nearby building damage.
2013-01-21

The South African Development Community urges opposing parties in Zimbabwe to settle differences to enable elections to be held.
2011-06-13

Striking pilots from the state-owned Air Zimbabwe end their two week strike that grounded flights and left passengers stranded after a pay deal with the government in Zimbabwe.
2010-09-24