Green Light From Washington: IMF Approves 10-Month Staff-Monitored Programme for Zimbabwe
An International Monetary Fund seal of approval is not money, and for Zimbabwe that distinction has mattered for the better part of two decades. Locked out of conventional Fund financing by arrears and a long record of broken reform commitments, the country has had to...
Green Light From Washington: IMF Approves 10-Month Staff-Monitored Programme for Zimbabwe
An International Monetary Fund seal of approval is not money, and for Zimbabwe that distinction has mattered for the better part of two decades. Locked out of conventional Fund financing by arrears and a long record of broken reform commitments, the country has had to...
Dikoloti Warns Farmers: FMD Controls Vital for EU Beef Access
Botswana's beef industry carries a quiet paradox. Its premium markets are not at home or even mostly in the region — they are in Europe, thousands of kilometres away, reachable only because the country has spent decades building a disease-control and traceability...
Bullion Backstop: 9.4 Tonnes of Q1 Gold Deliveries Shore Up the ZiG in Zimbabwe
Most currencies are backed by promises — the credibility of a government, the discipline of a central bank, the faith of the market. Zimbabwe, having exhausted the public's patience with promises, chose to back its currency with something heavier: metal pulled out of...
Bank of Botswana Lifts Policy Rate to 3.5% to Calm Credit Markets
For most of the last decade, the complaint about money in Botswana was that it cost almost nothing — and that this was precisely the problem. A policy rate held near the floor signalled an economy being nursed, not one running hot. When the price of money sits that...
This Month’s Issue
The Value-Add Republic
How Zimbabwe is re-architecting its economy – from a raw-commodity exporter into a value-add republic that keeps the margin at home, from lithium carbonate above US$24,000 a tonne to graded grain.
- 01 Battery Boom: Lithium Carbonate Tops US$24,000 a Tonne
- 02 The Big 5 Returns: RBZ Rolls Out Upgraded ZiG Banknotes
- 03 Walter Magaya: 45 Members to US$25M+ in 13 Years
Green Light From Washington: IMF Approves 10-Month Staff-Monitored Programme for Zimbabwe
IMF approves a 10-month Staff-Monitored Programme for Zimbabwe. Inflation at 4.4%, reforms on procurement and SOEs. Why credibility, not cash, is the prize.
Dikoloti Warns Farmers: FMD Controls Vital for EU Beef Access
Acting Minister Dikoloti has told Digawana farmers that strict FMD protocols are essential to regain Zone 11’s green status within 3–6 months and protect
Bullion Backstop: 9.4 Tonnes of Q1 Gold Deliveries Shore Up the ZiG in Zimbabwe
Fidelity Gold Refinery took 9.4 tonnes of gold in Q1 2026, up 10.5% year-on-year, feeding the US$1.3 billion reserves that back Zimbabwe’s gold-linked ZiG.
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Green Light From Washington: IMF Approves 10-Month Staff-Monitored Programme for Zimbabwe
An International Monetary Fund seal of approval is not money, and for Zimbabwe that distinction has mattered for the better part of two decades. Locked out of conventional Fund financing by arrears and a long record of broken reform commitments, the country has had to...
Single Digits: Tight Liquidity Pulls Zimbabwe Inflation to Around 4%
Zimbabwe has spent the better part of two decades as a byword for inflation, so a single-digit number reads almost like a typo. Yet the figure now in front of the market is roughly 4 percent, and it did not arrive by accident. It is the deliberate product of holding...
Tax Goes Digital: Zimbabwe Deploys TaRMS to Automate E-Invoicing and ZIMRA Enforcement
Tax authorities everywhere face the same structural problem: the gap between what is owed and what is actually declared, the space where under-invoicing, missing receipts and quiet cash sales live. Zimbabwe's answer in the 2026 budget is to close that space with...
Money
Malaria’s Playbook: What Tanzania Learned From China’s 1-3-7 Method
Lifestyle - Wellness & Fitness · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The usual currency of health aid is goods - drugs, nets, diagnostic kits shipped from a donor to a recipient. The more durable, and rarer, export is a method. In...
COVID-19 in the Sahel: China’s Medical Team Lands in Burkina Faso
Lifestyle - Wellness & Fitness · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 When COVID-19 reached the Sahel in early 2020, the global instinct was to pull resources inward. Protective equipment became a contested commodity, export bans multiplied...
Ebola, 2014: When China Sent a Mobile Lab to West Africa’s Front Line
Lifestyle - Wellness & Fitness · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 In a public-health emergency, pledges are cheap and presence is dear. During the 2014 West African Ebola epidemic - the deadliest on record - many international responses...
Lifestyle
Floors Under Pressure: Masuka Steps In as Early Tobacco Prices Slump in Zimbabwe
Tobacco is the crop that pays Zimbabwe's bills, and the auction floor is where the year's gamble is settled. So when early-season prices opened soft in 2026, the wager millions of growers had placed on a single season looked, for a moment, like a losing one....
Maize Goes to Market: ZMX Opens 2026 Grain Season With 2,000-Tonne Listing in Zimbabwe
Every harvest, Zimbabwe's grain farmers run into the same wall. The crop comes in, prices are softest at the moment everyone is selling, and the smallholder — short of storage and short of cash — takes whatever the gate price offers. The Zimbabwe Mercantile Exchange...
Farm to factory: Chinese agribusiness and Africa’s missing middle
Farming - Agribusiness & Value Chains · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The pitch is a complete value chain: Chinese companies planting, breeding and processing African crops into goods worth more than the raw harvest. The recorded...
Green Light From Washington: IMF Approves 10-Month Staff-Monitored Programme for Zimbabwe
IMF approves a 10-month Staff-Monitored Programme for Zimbabwe. Inflation at 4.4%, reforms on procurement and SOEs. Why credibility, not cash, is the prize.
Bullion Backstop: 9.4 Tonnes of Q1 Gold Deliveries Shore Up the ZiG in Zimbabwe
Fidelity Gold Refinery took 9.4 tonnes of gold in Q1 2026, up 10.5% year-on-year, feeding the US$1.3 billion reserves that back Zimbabwe’s gold-linked ZiG.
Single Digits: Tight Liquidity Pulls Zimbabwe Inflation to Around 4%
Zimbabwe’s inflation fell to around 4% in Q1 2026 as the RBZ held broad money supply at ZiG108.09bn — disinflation built on deliberately tight liquidity.
Ghosts Flushed Out: RBZ Orders Mobile-Money KYC by 30 June and Bank-Backed Nano-Loans in Zimbabwe
RBZ orders mobile operators to verify ghost mobile-money accounts by 30 June 2026 and mandates that nano-loans be underwritten by banks in Zimbabwe.
Algorithms Set the Rate: RBZ Builds Electronic Forex Trading System for Transparent Pricing in Zimbabwe
The RBZ is building an algorithm-based electronic forex trading system to automate price discovery, curb collusion and deliver market-reflective ZiG rates.
Doubling Down: RBZ Lifts Targeted Finance Facility to ZiG1.2 Billion for Productive Sectors
The RBZ doubled its Targeted Finance Facility to ZiG1.2 billion for agriculture, manufacturing and SMEs — directed credit inside a tight-money stance.
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Take the Lead: Women in Agriculture Union Presses for Female Control of Value Chains in Harare
At a Harare breakfast, the Women in Agriculture Union urged women to control agriculture value chains, citing a farm hub, a fund and a microfinance bank.
Pipeline-Builders: China-Africa Youth Contests Bet on Founders, Not Factories
A China-Africa youth entrepreneurship competition now runs across continents on digital economy and AI. The harder question is what happens to the founders after the final in Wuhan.
Eyes Over Africa: China’s Remote-Sensing Offer Lands Before the Centre Does
China has delivered emergency satellite imagery to Nigeria and Ethiopia and software to Cameroon. The shared cooperation centre meant to anchor it all is still under construction.
BeiDou in Africa: A Navigation System Looking for Its Ground Game
China lists at least ten African uses for its BeiDou satellites, from precision farming to wildlife tracking. What the record does not yet list is the named centres to run them.
Twenty Digital Projects, RMB 360 Billion: FOCAC’s Next Frontier Pitch
At the 2024 Beijing summit China named the digital economy its next African frontier – 20 projects inside a three-year RMB 360 billion (US$50 billion) package. The detail is thinner than the headline.
200,000 Kilometres of Fibre: The Backbone Beneath the Africa-China Story
The headline China-Africa numbers are loans and ports. The quieter figure: 200,000km of optical fibre and broadband for six million households – infrastructure hard to see and hard to remove.