Dogged by controversies, Zimbabwe has banned diamond exports till it gets the clearance from the Kimberley Process. The government said it has imposed the ban on all diamond exports, including those from Rio Tinto unit, until gemstones from its controversial Marange fields are certified by industry regulators.
Zimbabwe-born Australian performer Godfrey Zaburoni, 31, was charged on Tuesday in the Southport Magistrates, Gold Coast for acts of intending to cause grevious bodily harm by infecting women with HIV through unprotected sex.
Backtracking by international donors in funding for HIV/AIDS may undermine years of progress and is already putting lives at risk, the health aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday.
Josephine Jimenez has a chunk of money to invest and she is hunting for opportunities in the usual places -- Zimbabwe, Tunisia, Sri Lanka, among others. Jimenez is a specialist in so-called frontier markets. She stacked up a million air miles long ago.
Chiadzwa in Zimbabwe is notorious for its blood diamonds. Now this place has become an big attraction for the police force in the country. Till now, only illegal miners and Army have been blamed for the blood diamonds of Chiadzwa but now the country's police force also wants a piece of the diamond business. According to media reports in Zimbabwe, police want the government to give the police force concession to do mining business in Chiadzwa diamond fields.
Mineral rich, but impoverished Zimbabwe produced 661.8 kg gold in March with small scale miners contributing 17% to the country's total production. According to country's Chamber of Mines, the March figure is a marked increase compared to the previous month's figure of 487.7 kg´s. The mining body attributed the increase to continued investment into the sector by the various producers of the precious metal.
Zimbabwe is a nation with lots of diamonds and minerals but is one of the poorest in the world. Its inflation rate is almost 1,00,000 per cent. And in Zimbabwe, there is a place called Chiadzwa, which is known for its massive diamond deposits that can be dug out with simple tools only a few feet below the ground.
In the annual survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit, Vancouver scored 98 percent on a combination of stability, health care, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure -- a score unchanged from last year.
Zimbabwe's diamond sector is facing trouble again in the New Year with a coalition of industry-based associations and representatives in the US met the state department and demanded tough action by the Kimberley Process against the erring miners. They urged strict steps in implementing the joint work plan (JWP) designed to bring Zimbabwe into full KP compliance.
Demand for diamonds on the world market will make it possible to double production by 2020, due to a recovery of the US economy and the needs of countries such as China and India. Doubling of production would be a result of a rise in China's market share to 10 per cent and increasing demand from India by 2015, as well as from retailers and long-term acquisition contracts.
Zimbabwe, the country with over 1,00,000 per cent inflation, has done everything to cash in on the gold boom witnessed in the world during the past year. As a result, the country's gold production has gone up by almost 35 per cent to 4.2 tonnes last year. This is a remarkable recovery fro Zimbabwe and its mining sector despite erratic power supply.
Swiss food company Nestle has suspended operations in Zimbabwe, complaining of harassment after it pulled out of a deal to buy milk from a farm taken over by President Robert Mugabe's family.
Swiss food company Nestle has suspended operations in Zimbabwe, complaining of harassment after it pulled out of a deal to buy milk from a farm taken over by President Robert Mugabe's family.
Shooter Bill Simmons wrote me: “…If things continue to muddle along into the progressively improving future as they always have in the grand scheme of things…”
World leaders took the stage at the largest ever climate talks on Wednesday as ministers scrambled to rescue troubled negotiations on a pact to avoid dangerous global warming.
The town of Livingstone, Zambia, near Victoria Falls, was named after Doctor David Livingstone, the missionary born in Blantyre, Scotland, where I once lived as a child. It is illustrative of how much the world has changed, in such a relatively short time, that it was a mere 150 years since he had become
A Zimbabwean-registered cargo plane en route to Kyrgyzstan crashed on take-off in Shanghai on Saturday, killing three U.S. crew on board and triggering a fire, state media and a U.S. spokesman said.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he would lobby for support for his plan to make banks pay for any future bailout at a Commonwealth summit this week.
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai left Thursday for North Africa, where analysts said he would meet Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to maintain political pressure on President Robert Mugabe to honor their power-sharing accord.
The International Documentary Association on Thursday unveiled nominees for its widely-watched awards, putting its spotlight on non-fiction films that might also compete for Oscars early next year.
Zimbabwe's government has proposed that indigenous Zimbabweans take 51 percent ownership of all foreign companies, including mines and banks, according to a draft law seen by Reuters Friday.
Freed British mercenary Simon Mann said his homecoming was the most wonderful he could have imagined, after earlier expressing relief that his West African coup attempt had failed.
