On October 28, 2025, President Emmerson Mnangagwa delivered his State of the Nation Address (SONA) to a joint sitting of Parliament in Mt Hampden, Zimbabwe, projecting cautious optimism amid a complex

he Government implemented a series of reforms on 31 October 2025 aimed at enhancing the ease of doing business by eliminating redundant licenses and fees, a move that addresses long-standing barriers

Hippo Valley Estates Limited, Zimbabwe's dominant sugar producer commanding a 50.2% local market share and 49.8% of exports, finds its expansion ambitions severely hampered by the chronic inefficienci

The Government has cut city parking fees to US$0.50 cents per hour from US$1 per hour as part of a sweeping overhaul of business licensing and municipal charges now formalised under Statutory Instrume

Zimbabwe's monthly Portland cement import bill reached USD 12.02 million in April 2026, the highest single monthly value recorded in the sixty-four months dataset running from January 2021 through Apr

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

Zimbabwe’s digital economy is beginning to consume data much faster than it is adding internet users, forcing telecommunications operators, technology companies and policymakers to redirect investment

Zimbabwe's Mid Term Budget Review and the 2027 Budget Strategy Paper reveal a policy shift that is larger than the headline numbers on growth, inflation or revenue. Together they show Government movin

The World Bank has flagged Zimbabwe’s failure to convert strong economic growth into productive employment, with about 80% of working Zimbabweans now operating in the informal sector where median mont

Zimbabwe’s five-year economic expansion is entering a harder phase, with household and government consumption projected to contribute 4.4 percentage points of the country’s 5% economic growth in 2026

Zimbabwe’s human-capital problem is increasingly becoming an allocation problem, as the  country has a relatively educated workforce, yet the formal private sector remains too small to absorb the peop

Zimbabwe’s private-sector credit stock is equivalent to only 6.5% of GDP, according to the World Bank’s Zimbabwe Country Growth and Jobs Report, compared with approximately 22% in Côte d’Ivoire, 32%

British International Investment’s US$50 million commitment through CABS and NMB Bank places long-term foreign development capital back into the part of Zimbabwe’s economy where financing constraints

Zimbabwe's economic growth is projected to slow to 3.5% in 2027 from 5% in 2026, according to the International Monetary Fund's October 2026 World Economic Outlook, extending a deceleration from an es

ZimTrade data shows that Zimbabwe exported US$222 million worth of goods to COMESA in 2025, representing a 10.4% increase from US$201 million in 2024. Despite the recovery, regional exports accounted