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To placate Mnangagwa, miners make a show of joining Victoria Falls bourse

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa. © Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters

After months of pressure, some mining firms in Zimbabwe are slowly accepting President Emmerson Mnangagwa's initiative and entering the nascent stock exchange. It's a calculation that is as much political as financial. [...]

Published on 14/07/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa.

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Victoria Falls Stock Exchange courts junior miners

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Phoevos Pouroulis (left) and Loucas Pouroulis.

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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
To placate Mnangagwa, miners make a show of joining Victoria Falls bourse

Zimbabwe
Caledonia Mining, Mnangagwa's unexpected champion in gold

Zimbabwe
Canadian newcomer Zephyr Minerals goes for gold in Manicaland

Zimbabwe
Mnangagwa sticks with Kirill Goncharenko for US lobbying

SADC, Zimbabwe
Mnangagwa touts tobacco industry progress in bid to get Western sanctions lifted

Eritrea
Eritrean mining projects return to Toronto Stock Exchange

Zimbabwe
Harare turbo-boosts new Victoria Falls stock exchange

Zimbabwe
Backed by Mnangagwa, Chinese group Ming Chang close to obtaining control of gold mine

Zimbabwe
Victoria Falls Stock Exchange courts junior miners

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

Zimbabwe
Debt-ridden Harare sends distress signals with new stock exchange

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Pouroulis family's platinum record in Harare