Mugabe: The Dictator?

Is Zimbabwe’s 92-year-old leader really the oppressive dictator the West makes him out to be, or is he demonized for not succumbing to a history of destabilization and intervention attempts by the West?

Caleb T. Maupin
By Caleb T. Maupin
Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, addresses party supporters at a rally in Bindura about 100 kilometres north east of Harare, Friday, July 8, 2016.

WASHINGTON --- (Analysis) In covering a recent protest movement unfurling in Zimbabwe, mainstream Western media seem unable to report on country’s president without making references to him as a “dictator” and “authoritarian.” Yet the case against Robert Mugabe, the 92-year-old president of Zimbabwe and leader of the Zimbabwe African National

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#ThisFlag: Surprise Social Media Phenomenon Or US-Manufactured Uprising?

The largest protest movement to hit Zimbabwe in a decade was kicked off by a relatively unknown Baptist preacher who made a video decrying corruption. Is it an accident that his video went viral, or does the popularity of his message reflect U.S. involvement?

Caleb T. Maupin
By Caleb T. Maupin

WASHINGTON --- In reporting on Zimbabwe, the mainstream media gives the impression that recent protests rallying around the Twitter hashtag “ThisFlag” are an epic struggle against a corrupt dictatorship. Robert Mugabe, the 92-year-old president of Zimbabwe and leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), is

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Zimbabwe Calls For Extradition Of American Hunter That Killed Cecil The Lion

Authorities seeking Palmer’s extradition have described him as an accomplice to the illegal hunt. But they have not specified what charges might be laid against him, meaning it is unclear what penalty he could face if he is tried and convicted.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
FILE - In this image takem from a November 2012 video made available by Paula French, a well-known, protected lion known as Cecil strolls around in Hwange National Park, in Hwange, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe's wildlife minister says extradition is being sought for Walter Palmer, the American dentist who killed a Cecil.

HARARE, Zimbabwe  — Zimbabwe intends to seek the extradition of an American dentist who killed a lion that was lured out of a national park and shot with a bow and a gun, and the process has already begun, a Cabinet minister said Friday. In the Zimbabwean government's first official comment on the killing of Cecil the lion, the environment,

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Land Seizures Speeding Up, Leaving Africans Homeless And Landless

“Our forefathers cried foul during colonialism when their land was grabbed by colonialists more than a century ago, but today history repeats itself, with our own political leaders and wealthy countrymen looting land” – Claris Madhuku, Zimbabwe’s Platform for Youth Development (PYD).

Jeffrey Moyo
By Jeffrey Moyo
An unidentified woman from Zimbabwe's Mashonaland Central Province at Manzou Farm packs her tobacco with the help of her children as they prepare to leave following an eviction order. “Land grabs in Africa have helped to perpetuate economic inequalities similar to the colonial era economic imbalances” – Terry Mutsvanga, Zimbabwean rights activist. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPS

An unidentified woman from Zimbabwe's Mashonaland Central Province at Manzou Farm packs her tobacco with the help of her children as they prepare to leave following an eviction order. “Land grabs in Africa have helped to perpetuate economic inequalities similar to the colonial era economic imbalances” – Terry Mutsvanga, Zimbabwean rights activist.

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Zimbabwe’s Children Are The Battlefield In War To Contain HIV/AIDS

Figures show that thousands of children in Zimbabwe are infected with HIV – presenting a major battlefield for government efforts to defeat the spread of HIV /AIDS nationwide.

Jeffrey Moyo
By Jeffrey Moyo
Zimbabwe

  Many children under 15 in Zimbabwe discover their HIV status only when they fall critically ill later in life. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPS HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Fifty-one-year-old Mateline Msipa is living with HIV. Her 17-year-old daughter, born after Msipa was diagnosed with the virus, may also have it, but she has never been tested. “My

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Rhino Poaching Down, But Asian Demand Still Fueling Poaching In Zimbabwe

Only hundreds of rhinoceroses remain after years of illegal hunting to satisfy Asia’s demand for rhino horns.

Les Neuhaus
By Les Neuhaus
Thailand Rhino Horns

Rhinoceros poaching in Zimbabwe dropped year on year in 2013, but only about 750 rhinos remain, Agence France-Presse reported, noting that thousands of rhinos inhabited the southern African nation in 1980. Geoffreys Matipano of the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority told AFP that poachers killed 20 rhinos in the country in 2013, marking a

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