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Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's Medical Services Amendment Act: A Noble Premise Built on a Dangerous Assumption

Zimbabwe has gazetted the Medical Services Amendment Act, 2026 on the 7th of July 2026, legally requiring private hospitals to admit and provide emergency treatment to patients with life-threatening c

Jul 11, 2026
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Gokwe Cotton City: Can Zimbabwe Build a Textile Economy from the Ground Up?

Zimbabwe marketed 5,079,907 kilograms of seed cotton by 18 June 2026. At the same point in 2025, the figure was 310,625 kilograms. That 1,536% difference in early-season marketing volumes is the singl

 Jul 09, 2026
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Higher Ethanol Blend, Higher Pump Price: How Fuel Prices Compare Globally After ZERA’s Fuel Cuts

Zimbabwe's Energy Regulatory Authority has reduced petroleum prices effective 8 July 2026, bringing diesel from USD 1.99 to USD 1.87 per litre, a reduction of USD 0.12 or 6%, and blend E20 from USD 1.

 Jul 09, 2026
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How Gastronomy Tourism Can Change Zimbabwe’s Tourism Calculus

Zimbabwe's tourism sector recorded international tourist arrivals of 384,515 in the first quarter of 2026, an 11% increase from 347,555 in the same period of 2025, with total tourism revenue rising 14

 Jul 09, 2026
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Higher Yields Drives Potato Output Past 100k Tonnes, Growth Outruns Policy Support

Zimbabwe's 2025/26 summer season has produced 100,055 tonnes of Irish potatoes from 3,450 hectares at an average yield of 29 tonnes per hectare, an improvement from the prior year's 26 tonnes per hect

 Jul 08, 2026
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14 Years Later: Air Zimbabwe Returns to London on a Leased Spanish A330

Air Zimbabwe will resume direct flights between Harare and London by the end of July 2026, ending a 15-year absence from one of the airline's most strategic international routes. This was confirmed a

 Jul 08, 2026
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The Right to Health Is Now a Cost-Recovery Test for Zimbabwe's Health Sector

•Emergency stabilisation now creates 48-hour receivables risk before payment certainty exists. •Government can now cap private hospital fees and permissible tariff increases. •Profit shifts to discipl

 Jul 08, 2026
Zimbabwe's Gold Deliveries: June Sets the Tone for a Record Year

Zimbabwe's gold deliveries to Fidelity Gold Refinery reached 4.81 tonnes in June 2026, the highest single monthly figure recorded in 2026, the second highest historically just behind December 2025's 4

Jul 07, 2026
Zimbabwe’s Blueberry Trade with China Begins

Zimbabwe has completed its first commercial shipment of fresh blueberries to China, transforming a market access agreement signed in 2025 into actual trade and opening a premium export corridor into o

Jul 07, 2026
How Zimbabwe’s Food Security Push Is Rewriting the Fertiliser Equation

Zimbabwe imported USD 22.8 million of ammonium nitrate in May 2026 alone, a record single-month figure that exceeds the total spent on the same product across the entire six months of January to June

Jul 07, 2026
How Floating Kariba Solars Will Redraw Zimbabwe’s Energy System

Green Hybrid Power and the Intensive Energy Users Group are targeting financial close by October 2026 on a US$400 million floating solar project at Lake Kariba. Intensive Energy Users Group (IEUG) ch

Jul 07, 2026

Zimbabwe Sugar Sector Eyes Major Investment Despite Policy and Cost Pressures

Zimbabwe's sugar industry produced 443,501 tonnes in the financial year ended 31 March 2026, a 1% increase from the prior year, while total sales reached 471,837 tonnes, a 24% increase from 380,531 to

Jul 07, 2026

Maize Imports Fall to Lowest Level Since Genuine 2023 Low

Zimbabwe's monthly maize imports fell to USD 18.8 million in May 2026, the lowest reading since August 2025's post-harvest suppression low of USD 1.34 million, from a peak of USD 84.7 million in Decem

Jul 07, 2026

Zimbabwe Entrepreneurship Exchange: ZSE Builds Its Most Ambitious Market as Blue Chips Flee

The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange has spent the better part of 2026 building the institutional architecture of a market that does not yet exist,  five confirmed partnerships in the space of four months, tw

Jul 06, 2026

Mining Slump Clouds Zimbabwe’s Q1 2026 GDP

Zimbabwe’s economy lost momentum in the first quarter of 2026 as a sharp contraction in mining weighed on growth, underscoring the economy’s continued reliance on the extractive sector despite improvi

Jul 03, 2026

Gold Carries Zimbabwe’s Economy: What Happens When Prices Self-Correct?

Zimbabwe's May 2026 exports stood at $884 million, with $464 million of that, 52.5%, coming from semi-manufactured gold. The United Arab Emirates absorbed $448.7 million of total exports, the majorit

Jul 02, 2026

Zimbabwe Spends US$20 Million on Imported Power in May

Zimbabwe spent US$20.12 million importing electrical energy in May 2026, the highest monthly electricity import bill since September 2024. The payment rose 43.8% from US$13.99 million in April and sto

Jul 02, 2026

Zimbabwe Rejects Lithium Extension: Is the Industry Ready for January 2027?

Government has held firm on the January 2027 ban on lithium concentrate exports despite the industry’s request for a six month extension. The decision has shifted Zimbabwe’s lithium policy from aspira

Jul 01, 2026

Zimbabwe’s Trade Analysis: What It Means for Economy, Policymakers, Investors As Gold Retreats

Zimbabwe's goods exports reached USD 884 million in May 2026, the second highest monthly export figure on record and an 11.6% increase from April 2026's USD 792.3 million, driven by semi-manufactured

Jul 01, 2026