The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has reduced fuel pump prices effective 19 June 2026 with diesel (D50) dropping to US$1.99 per litre from US$2.09, while blended petrol (now E20) falling

Cabinet has approved a plan to expand national ethanol production from 155 million litres to 600 million litres annually by 2035, a 287% increase that the government has framed as a transformative int

Zimbabwe has approved the Nutrition Financing Strategy on 30 June 2026, presented by Vice President General (Rtd) Constatino Chiwenga as Chairperson of the Cabinet Committee on Food Security and Nutri

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

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s attempt to control cobalt exports has entered its first major test after a government customs system failure threatened up to 20,000 tonnes of shipments worth circa

•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

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

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.

De Beers has cut its prices in July 2026, reflecting growing pressure as weak Chinese luxury demand, the rapid expansion of lab-grown diamonds, and increased rough supply from producers such as Angola

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zimbabwe’s platinum industry has entered its strongest cash generation window in years while part of the capital required to sustain output, replace equipment and approve expansion remains locked in u

Delta Corporation accrued US$7.3 million in sugar tax across its affected non alcoholic beverage categories during the quarter ended 30 June 2026, placing the levy near the annual pace recorded in the

Zimbabwe has increased the expected return available from new residential rental developments through Statutory Instrument 131 of 2026, gazetted in July by the Minister of National Housing and Social