Sources: BBC
A head-on collision between a minibus taxi and a truck kills 17 people and injures several others in Harare Province, Zimbabwe. 2025-07-22
The United Kingdom ends its travel ban on Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. 2021-12-20
Zimbabwe begins its vaccination programme against COVID-19 using China's Sinopharm vaccine. Health minister and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is the first person to receive the vaccine. 2021-02-18
The cabinet announces that 20 of South Africa's land borders with Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe will reopen on February 15. 2021-02-13
Cyclone Eloise leaves at least thirteen people dead and more than 8,000 people homeless after making landfall in central Mozambique. Major flooding is also reported in Eswatini, South Africa and Zimbabwe. 2021-01-25
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
Evan Mawarire, the most visible leader of the protests in Zimbabwe, is arrested and charged with "inciting public violence and disturbing peace." 2016-07-12
Riots break out in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, after police attempt to disperse a protest by the city's taxi drivers. 2016-07-4
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe calls for elections in 2012 to replace the power-sharing government in place since 2008. 2011-12-8
An internet campaign calls for protests demanding that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe step down, leading to an increased security presence. 2011-03-1