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• April 17, 2020

  Zimbabwean Speaks About Alleged Racism, Strict Coronavirus Measures in China

  "The French doctors said they want to wipe out the African population. So now was resistance of like, no, we are not taking the test. Yes. So this is where the whole thing started off, some. And their resistance was also based on fear of saying, is this the real test or now I'm being a guinea pig."

• April 16, 2020

  Zimbabwe Registers More Coronavirus Cases

  According to the Ministry of Health, the country has to far tested 23 samples in Bulawayo and 28 in Harare, Mashonaland East, Mutare and Masvingo and five residents from the south-western city tested positive for coronavirus.

• April 14, 2020

  Zimbabwe Court Orders Soldiers, Police to Stop Brutalizing Locals in Coronavirus Lockdown Enforcements

  High Court Judges Justice Owen Tagu and Justice Joseph Musakwa made the ruling after presiding over an urgent chamber application filed by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and Lucia Masvondo, a Karoi woman, who was bitten by dogs as the state security agents were enforcing the lockdown regulations.

• April 10, 2020

  Is Zimbabwe Planning to Extend 21-Day Coronavirus Lockdown?

  “I cannot tell you whether at the end of 21 days we will extend the lockdown or not. Let's observe lockdown measures and prevent the spread of the virus.”

• April 08, 2020

  Third Zimbabwean Dies of Coronavirus

  “He was a 50-year-old male resident of Harare, who had travelled to the United Kingdom and returned home on the 21st of March 2020. He started exhibiting mild symptoms and alerted the local COVID-19 Rapid Response Team on the 1st of April 2020, which went to assess him at home ..."

• April 08, 2020

  Zimbabwe Doctors Breathing Fire Over Death of Coronavirus Patient

  "It took five days (from 2nd April to 7th April) to get the result of the COVID-19 test a period which is rather too long. The absence of diagnostic facilities for COVID-19 brings to question the state of preparedness of centres outside Harare."

• April 07, 2020

  MDC: Chamisa Still in Charge of Party Headquarters

  MDC chairperson, Thabitha Khumalo, dismissed as “cheap propaganda” reports in the state-controlled Herald newspaper that MDC member, Douglas Mwonzora and his friends, are now in control of the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House.

• March 31, 2020

  Zimbabwe Supreme Court Declares Nelson Chamisa Illegitimate MDC Leader

  Professor Lovemore Madhuku, an attorney representing Thokozani Khupe who claims to be the legitimate leader of the MDC-T, welcomed the Supreme Court decision. But MDC secretary general, Chalton Hwende, said the ruling won’t change anything.

• March 27, 2020

  Zimbabwe Central Bank Says Locals Can Now Purchase Goods in U.S Dollars

  “… The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe would like to advise the public that it is making it easier for the transacting public to conduct business during this difficult period by making available an option to use free funds to pay for goods and services chargeable in local currency."

• March 21, 2020

  Zimbabwe Records Second Coronavirus Case

  In a statement, Health Minister Obadiah Moyo, identified the person as a Harare resident, who is currently in isolation.

• March 20, 2020

  Zimbabwe Records First Coronavirus Case

  In a statement, the ministry said a man, who visited Britain a week ago and returned home in Victoria Falls, tested positive for the disease following the prescribed laboratory tests.

• March 17, 2020

  Fear Grips Zimbabwe As British Visitor Tests Positive for Coronavirus Back in London

  "... We received a report that a tourist who came to Victoria Falls on the 7th of March 2020 and departed on the 10th of March 2020 back to United Kingdom has been found positive for Covid-19 and is currently being treated in the UK."

• March 15, 2020

  South Africa Declares State of Emergency, Shuts Borders And Schools As Coronavirus Grips Nation

  “We are imposing a travel ban on foreign nationals from high-risk countries such as Italy, Iran, South Korea, Spain, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom and China as from 18 March 2020. We have cancelled visas to visitors from those countries ..."

• March 13, 2020

  USA Says Serious Human Rights Abuses Rife in Zimbabwe

  “Human rights groups reported government agents continued to perpetrate physical and psychological torture. Reported torture methods included beating victims with sticks, clubs, cables, gun butts, sjamboks (a heavy whip), falanga, as well as pouring corrosive substances on exposed skin."

• March 12, 2020

  Zimbabwe Soccer Legend Barry Daka Dies

  According to his daughter, Lorraine, Daka passed away in the early Thursday morning following a short illness.

• March 11, 2020

  U.S. Drops Kaukonde from Sanctions List, Tightens Screws on Security Minister Ncube, Sanyatwe

  The State Department urges the Government of Zimbabwe to immediately end state-sponsored violence including against peaceful protesters, civil society, labor leaders and members of the opposition in Zimbabwe, and to investigate and hold accountable those responsible for human rights violations ..."

• March 10, 2020

  Kirsty Coventry Says ZIFA Has Failed to Convince CAF to Lift Blanket Ban on Zimbabwe Stadia

  “ZIFA have failed to assure CAF that the work we are doing in the stadiums will safeguard our National Teams playing home games in Zimbabwe. ZIFA now have to come up with a stadium for our teams to play home games outside of Zimbabwe.”

• March 10, 2020

  Zimbabwe Attacks E.U for Urging Mnangagwa Govt to Shed Light on Itai Dzamara's Abduction

  "... Every Zimbabwean counts. It is therefore diplomatically unhelpful and misleading to insinuate that government does not intend to shed light into Mr. Dzamara's disappearance, as if it had a hand in it."

• March 09, 2020

  Untested Suspected Coronavirus Patient Bolts, Leaving Zimbabwe Doctors Shell-Shocked

  According to the state-controlled Herald newspaper and the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, the unidentified 26 year-old traveler from Thailand, left nurses and doctors shell-shocked when he ran away while was waiting for some blood tests.

• March 09, 2020

  Abducted Pro-Democracy Campaigner's Wife Appeals for Mnangagwa's Help to Find Itai Dzamara

  “… I believe someone in your government knows what happened to him. If the abductors killed him, give me his body so that I can grieve, bury and get closure. I can also take my kids to his grave and say here lies your father. With tears, I appeal to you as the president to help me ..."

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