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Zimbabwe’s participation at the forthcoming 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals in Cameroon hangs in the balance after FIFA on Tuesday gave the country’s Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) a two-week ultimatum to reverse its suspension of the board of the local football association or risk sanctions.

Zimbabwe will chair the African Diamond Producers Association in 2022 following elections held by the organisation last week, Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said on Tuesday.

Zimbabwe’s economy is expected to grow by six percent in 2021 although the outlook for the country remains highly uncertain on the back of several factors, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday.

Zimbabwe’s Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) on Tuesday suspended the board of the country’s football association over allegations of “gross incompetency”.

Zimbabwe plans to import 360 megawatts from neighbouring Mozambique and Zambia to ease a crippling electricity shortage, a senior official at the country’s state-owned power utility said on Monday.

Zimbabwe and Mozambique have agreed to intensify efforts to establish one-stop border posts at two of their crossing points and to construct a second pipeline to transport fuel between the Mozambican port of Beira and Harare, a senior official said on Thursday.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures, Alena Douhan, has called on the United States and other Western countries to lift unilateral sanctions against Zimbabwe.

A member of the youth league of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF has launched a court bid to challenge the constitutionality of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s 2017 ascendancy to power in a move expected to shake the country’s political core.

Zimbabwe is among 23 African countries to be removed from the list of 54 countries whose travellers are required to quarantine in an approved hotel at their own cost for 10 days when they visit the United Kingdom.

The widow of former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has appealed to the country’s High Court challenging an earlier court decision ordering the exhumation of her husband’s remains for reburial at a national shrine.