After independence in 1980, Chiwenga managed to thrive in the dangerous world of Zimbabwe’s security forces.

Following the recent military siege on the Mozambican northern town of Palma by Islamic State-linked insurgents who have killed dozens of people, including a Zimbabwean and a South African, Zimbabwean ...

Zimbabwe’s army commander has openly stated that the country’s security forces intend to play a partisan political role, threatening future elections and those participating in them.

Police patrol in Harare, Zimbabwe on Sunday. The security crackdown comes in response to unrest provoked by a government-implemented 150 percent price increase on fuel.

Members of the Defense Forces march on a parade during a celebration for the Defense Forces Day in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Aug. 13, 2024. Zimbabweans on Tuesday commemorated the 44th anniversary of ...

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday reassigned the head of the country's army to the sports ministry, the presidency said, without elaborating on the reasons for the move.

Zimbabwe’s security forces deliberately targeted unarmed citizens and used “systematic torture” during recent street protests, a new report from Zimbabwe’s Human Rights Commission has found.

WASHINGTON DC — The Constitutional Court ruled Friday that members of the uniformed forces who failed to cast their votes in a special election last week, should be allowed to vote next Wednesday. The ...

The European Union yesterday called on the Zimbabwe government to ensure perpetrators of human rights violations are swiftly brought to justice and immediately ...

The Zimbabwe Defence Forces are also involved in a lot of community work, a deliberate policy building up on the crucial concept that the military in Zimbabwe are not special cast separate from ...

His wife is a beauty queen, his troops unseated Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, and his motorcade is fit for a president. General Constantino Chiwenga, head of the armed forces until earlier this ...