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EMMERSON MNANGAGWA was sworn in yesterday as Zimbabwe’s new president, 10 days after the military moved against long-time leader Robert Mugabe.
In a speech to thousands of supporters at a stadium in the capital Harare, Mr Mnangagwa pledged to reduce unemployment and improve the health of the country’s economy.
Only about 500,000 of Zimbabwe’s 13 million people have formal employment. Trying to rally young people in the summer, Mr Mugabe told jobless youths to “keep chickens [and] grow mushrooms.”
The ceasefire may have halted the fighting for now, but years of economic warfare and recent military attacks have left millions of Iranians facing hardship and uncertainty, says Codir’s RUBEN BRETT
Hurricanes might have natural causes but the tragedy that follows is entirely human-made and a consequence of capitalist greed, asserts ROGER McKENZIE
ROGER McKENZIE reports on the west African country, under its new anti-imperialist government, taking up the case for compensation for colonial-era massacres