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Zimbabwe
Business tycoon Kuda Tagwirei's stamp is all over state's new mining behemoth

Kuvimba Mining House is the name of the new state-controlled entity created to coordinate and revamp the country's largest mines. Embodying Harare's hopes for its mining sector, all the paths heading out of the company's high-potential portfolio seem nonetheless to lead to Kuda Tagwirei, one of Mnangagwa's closest allies but a man under US sanctions. [...]

Published on 05/01/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa.

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Subscribers only Mining 11.07.2022

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Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZISCO) facilities in Redcliff, Kwekwe, Zimbabwe.

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Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Zimbabwe
Business tycoon Kuda Tagwirei's stamp is all over state's new mining behemoth

Spotlight | Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
Harare acts to get back on the lucrative Durban-Copperbelt freight route

Zimbabwe
US sanctions hamper Obey Chimuka's mining ambitions

Zimbabwe
Caledonia Mining, Mnangagwa's unexpected champion in gold

Inner circles | Zimbabwe
Mnangagwa steps up pressure on ZMDC as general election looms

Zimbabwe
State-owned Kuvimba Mining regains control of a parcel of the Freda Rebecca goldmine

Zimbabwe
Government looks to speed up reopening of ZiscoSteel ahead of presidential elections

Zimbabwe
IMF urges Harare to raise taxes on mining

Zimbabwe
Tagwirei's allies continue to dominate behind the scenes at state-owned Bindura Nickel

Zimbabwe
Tagwirei ally's Fossil Group hits the jackpot with public contracts

Zimbabwe
TN Gold gets bogged down over Mzi Khumalo's old gold mine

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Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe
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Foreign minister Frederick Shava courts new partners in Ankara and New Dehli to circumvent sanctions

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Southern Africa
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Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe
Mnangagwa battered by VP resignation and US sanctions renewal

Zimbabwe
Grain Trading Co surfs on Mnangagwa's agricultural strategy

Zimbabwe
Mnangagwa's tax gift to mining magnate Tagwirei

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