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Zimbabwe

Unbuilt Defenses: How a 'Super' El Niño Threatens Zimbabwe’s Reserve Buffers

The Centre for Climate System Research and International Research Institute for Climate and Society multi-model forecast issued in July 2026 has pointed Zimbabwe toward below-normal rainfall across th

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ZiG, USD Inflation Converge: ZiG Drops Sharpest Fall of 2026, Validates RBZ’s Mid-Year Turning Point

imbabwe Gold’s (ZiG) annual inflation has fell to 3.2% in July 2026 from 4.7% in June, a drop of 1.5 percentage points that reverses three months of gradual increase and marks the sharpest single-mont

 11 hours ago
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ZiG Demand by Decree: Treasury Widens Local Currency Taxes

Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion Minister , Professor Mthuli Ncube has told Treasury will widen the range of taxes payable only in Zimbabwe Gold, a measure due in the 2026 Mid-Te

 16 hours ago
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Horse and Rider No More: President Pushes Zimbabwe Up the Mineral Value Chain

resident Emmerson Mnangagwa has told an industrialisation conference last week that Zimbabwe would rather leave its minerals in the ground than export them unprocessed, declaring the era of what he ca

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Mid Term Budget Faces Eight Tests That Will Define Zimbabwe’s Second Half

This Mid Term Budget should therefore be interpreted through eight practical tests. Can reserve money growth coexist with low inflation over the medium term. Is dedollarisation becoming commercially d

 17 hours ago
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Zimbabwe’s Steel Comeback :Turns Manhize Into a Regional Export Engine

Zimbabwe's steel sector generated USD 137 million in export proceeds in the first half of 2026, already surpassing the full-year 2025 total of USD 92.1 million in six months. In Q1 2026, steel exports

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Zimbabwe Heads for Third Consecutive Wheat Record: ARDA Grows Nearly Half as National Plantings Hit 133k Hectares

Zimbabwe has planted 106% of its 125,000 hectare winter wheat target, up from 101% at the same point in 2025, taking the national area to roughly 132,500 hectares. The Agricultural and Rural Developme

 Jul 23, 2026
Idle Factories, Falling Prices: Why Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Boom Is Not Reaching Growers

Zimbabwe’s growers delivered 353,813,565 kilogrammes of tobacco across the 2026 marketing season at an average of USD 2.49 per kilogramme according to the latest data from the Tobacco Industries and M

Jul 23, 2026
GMB’s Unpaid Balance Rebuilds Ahead of Wheat Intake

The Grain Marketing Board's unpaid balance to farmers on 2025/2026 summer crop deliveries stood at ZiG 81.424 million and USD 7.419 million  by 20 July 2026, against payments already made of ZiG 135,1

Jul 23, 2026
From Household Security to Breadbasket:How Pfumvudza Can Unlock Zimbabwe’s Agricultural Scale

Zimbabwe's Pfumvudza/Intwasa programme has done what it was designed to do, delivering a bumper harvest, turning Zimbabwe’s 2024 cereal deficit story into a surplus one.  The 2025/26 summer season pro

Jul 22, 2026
Zimbabwe’s Lithium Rail Service Intensifies Regional Port Competition

The National Railways of Zimbabwe, Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway and logistics company Silvergill have transported the first 1,000 tonnes of lithium concentrate from Tsingshan Holding Group’s Gwanda Lit

Jul 22, 2026

Competition Watchdog Flags Exchange Deals as Dairibord Sale Looms

The Competition and Tariff Commission has warned investors, listed companies, stockbrokers and corporate advisers that acquisitions through the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange and Victoria Falls Stock Exchan

Jul 22, 2026

Zimbabwe 2026 Tobacco Marketing Season Nears Close With 400 Million Kilogram Target Unmet

The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board will close Zimbabwe’s 2026 auction tobacco floors on Friday, 31 July, after cumulative national sales reached 354.10 million kilograms by selling day 95 on 20

Jul 22, 2026

Zimbabwe’s Gold Windfall Narrows as Fidelity Price Falls 25% From January Peak

Zimbabwe’s official Fire Assay cash buying price decreased 25.3% to US$3,764.15 per ounce on 21 July 2026 from a 2026 peak of US$5,041.57 per ounce on 29 January, reducing the revenue generated from e

Jul 21, 2026

Tigere Premium Raises the Accretion Bar Unit growth now tests whether income keeps pace

That gap traces to two specific acquisition financed unit placements, not to Tigere’s scrip dividend programme, which only reached unitholders as a notice due for publication in the week of July 20, 2

Jul 21, 2026

Lessons From Raw Mineral Ban: Is It Time to Set Time-Bound Deadlines for PGM Matte Processing?

Zimbabwe's platinum group metal exports generated USD 1.206 billion in the first half of 2026, comprising USD 859.1 million from PGM matte and USD 347.6 million from PGM concentrates, making the PGM c

Jul 21, 2026

Lithium Sulphate Delivers First Real Returns: As Zim Targets Higher-Value Battery Products

Zimbabwe's lithium sector brought in USD 746 million in H1 2026, USD 672.8 million from spodumene concentrates and USD 73.2 million from lithium sulphate. That revenue mix is the clearest measure yet

Jul 20, 2026

Beneficiation Pushes Zim’s Mineral Wealth to a New Level: Exports Hit 2.5 Bn in H1'26

Zimbabwe has recorded USD 2.532 billion in mineral export proceeds in the first half of 2026 from 10 commodity categories, with the revenue distribution pointing to the biggest structural shift in the

Jul 20, 2026

Zimbabwe's National One Health Strategic Plan: Addresses Health Threats Most Likely to Define the Country's Next Decade

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed Zimbabwe’s economy into a 6.2% contraction in 2020, expanded the number of citizens in extreme poverty by 1.3 million, pushing the national extreme poverty rate to 49%, wh

Jul 20, 2026