The African Development Bank has approved three more years of funded dialogue on Zimbabwe’s arrears. The roadmap said the arrears would be cleared by early 2026.
A phone call from a stranger, a board that took a risk on a 33 year old, and five filled notebooks. What twenty years in the civic space taught me, and the three lessons I am carrying to AFRODAD.
African governments are restricting mineral exports, and the measures are being read as a continental assertion of resource sovereignty. The design of those measures tells a more modest story about who they were built to protect.
Two negotiations now under way will shape African public finance for a generation. The UN tax convention is in line-by-line drafting and the Borrowers’ Platform is building a debtor caucus that has never existed. Both will be won or lost in clauses that read like housekeeping.
Domestic resource mobilisation captures a larger share of value that already exists. Resource creation builds what an economy cannot yet make. Africa’s minerals are the test case, and the jobs are the measure.
Last week in Bulawayo, alongside Mine Entra 2026, we sat down with communities living on top of Zimbabwe’s critical minerals. The sessions were coordinated by the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association with support from the Southern Africa Trust. The purpose was to ask the people closest
Last week I wrote about the nurse in Manchester who wires her sister’s school fees to Harare every month. Look closer at what her money buys. School fees. A grandmother’s blood pressure tablets. Crèche fees so a cousin can keep her market stall. The wire
Every September, the Zimbabwe Alternative Mining Indaba (ZAMI) brings together a powerful mix of voices: communities from mining areas, civil society organisations, academics, activists, government officials, and, increasingly, private sector players. This year, from the 17th to the 19th, I joined comrades and colleagues who,
On the 16th of March, the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD) launched the #TakeActionZW Campaign as the sequel to the impactful and much recognized #HowFar campaign it started in 2021. I have been privileged to be leading ZIMCODD and learning in leaps and
In the early 2000s, Zimbabwe went on to default on its external debt obligations as its political and economic crisis turned ugly with the Fast Track Land Reform Programme causing internal chaos, volatility and shocks to capital. Arrears and penalties began to accumulate and currently