How telehealth is helping close the healthcare gap in rural Zimbabwe
Virtual consultations are replacing hours of travel, bringing affordable healthcare closer to rural Zimbabweans.
![Journalists walk past Prospect Lithium Zimbabwe's (PLZ) newly constructed lithium sulphate plant during a technical media tour in Goromonzi, Mashonaland East. The facility, one of Africa's largest three-line single-phase lithium sulphate plants, forms part of Zimbabwe's drive to promote local mineral beneficiation and value addition [Enos Denhere/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/journalists1-1784698067.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
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Post-apartheid South Africa: 50 years after Soweto riots, what has changed?
Black students braved bullets to protest the discriminatory apartheid-era education policies.
Zimbabwe’s climate migrants fear eviction as crackdown intensifies
Many settled in Zimbabwe’s fertile Eastern Highlands after drought left their home areas unable to support farming.
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Why are Nigeria-South Africa tensions rising amid xenophobic attacks?
It’s not the first time the two African giants have gone head-to-head over attacks on their nationals.
Zimbabwe’s e-tricycle crackdown puts rural women’s livelihoods at risk
Zimbabwe’s e-tricycle scheme for rural women is being squeezed by high fees, licensing rules and police enforcement.
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‘Don’t believe in paying athletes’: IOC’s Coventry stirs social media storm
Olympians slam the IOC chief and Zimbabwe’s former medallist for saying athletes should not be paid at the Games.
Aid cuts and climate change drive deadly malaria surge in Zimbabwe
A surge in malaria cases in Zimbabwe is exposing fragile health systems and growing treatment shortages in rural areas.
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The West only discovers property rights when the landowners are white
Zimbabwe is compensating European farmers. The original dispossession goes unrecognised.
How social media is influencing Zimbabwe’s diaspora investors
Zimbabwean digital influencers appear to influence diaspora investment decisions through social media.
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Zimbabweans lured into Russia’s war as families plead for their return
Families call on governments in Moscow and Harare to secure the return of loved ones from Ukrainian front lines.
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South Africa to deport Robert Mugabe’s son over firearm offence
Bellarmine Mugabe was also fined $36,000.
