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Community members sit on the floor and meditate in a yoga class at Socialite Bar in Chitungwiza on the outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe, Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

Yoga in a Zimbabwe tavern is the latest mental health outreach in a struggling country

Before dawn in a tavern can be an unlikely time and place for a yoga session. But in one low-income Zimbabwe community, an instructor is offering free sessions there.

Molly Manatse a female truck driver is seen on the road in Harare, in this Saturday, March 6, 2021 photo. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)

Zimbabwe’s president approves controversial mandatory radio levy on motorists

Rory McIlroy, of North Ireland, hits off the 2nd tee during the final round of the PGA Zurich Classic golf tournament at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La., Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

PGA Tour makes a return to Philadelphia and LPGA Tour is at Liberty National

Wallace Mkanka holds his winning sculpture that will be part of an upcoming exhibition at Oxford University aiming to contextualize the legacy of British imperialist Cecil John Rhodes, at the Chitungwiza Arts Centre near Harare, Zimbabwe, on March 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

Zimbabwe’s stone carvers seek a revival as an Oxford exhibition confronts a British colonial legacy

Women walk across a deserted street in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe, Monday, March 31, 2025, following calls for an anti-government protest. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

Calls for uprising in Zimbabwe largely ignored as public heeds government appeals to stay away

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Newly elected International Olympic Committee IOC President Kirsty Coventry, second from right, is welcomed by officials at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe airport in Harare, Zimbabwe, Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

Newly elected IOC President Kirsty Coventry celebrated on return home to Zimbabwe

Mellisa Sachitongo, 65, exercises with the Commandos Fitness Club at the Warren Hills cemetery in Harare, Zimbabwe, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. ( AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

A fitness club in a Zimbabwe cemetery aims to outpace death one step at a time

Residents walk by charred vehicles in Goma, Democratic republic of the Congo, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Rwanda-backed rebels move deeper into eastern Congo as UN reports executions and rapes

People shop at an informal and illegal market that pops up at night to avoid police raids in central Harare, Zimbabwe, Friday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

Zimbabwe’s new currency woes hit traditional stores while illegal night bazaars flourish

Friends and relatives of the Ziwangwe family, during the unveiling of the tombstone of late Kindness Ziwangwe at a cemetary in Harare, Zimbabwe, Saturday, Dec 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

It’s the holidays in Zimbabwe. Time to celebrate by unveiling a family tombstone

Sophia, the humanoid robot, responds to questions from children at the University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Friday, 13 Dec. 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

Sophia, a famous robot and global icon of AI, wins hearts at Zimbabwe’s innovation fair

FILE - Then-Zimbabwe's minister of state in the Prime Minister's office Jameson Timba, arrives at the High Court in Harare, Sunday, June, 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)

Zimbabwe court frees opposition leader on suspended sentence after 5 months in detention

FILE - Then-Zimbabwe's minister of state in the Prime Minister's office Jameson Timba, arrives at the High Court in Harare, Sunday, June, 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)

Zimbabwe court convicts opposition leader and 34 activists after 5 months of pre-trial detention

FILE - Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa gestures during his inauguration ceremony at the National Sports Stadium in the capital, Harare, on Sept. 4 2023. Zimbabwe police have arrested 18 political activists and hauled some of them off a plane, their lawyers said Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024 in the latest clampdown by the government. (AP Photo /Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)

Zimbabwe police arrest 18 political activists in latest clampdown ahead of regional summit

Opposition supporters protest outside a court, in Harare, Zimbabwe, Thursday, June 27, 2024. The protesters were angered by a magistrate's decision to deny bail to close to 80 activists arrested mid-June for allegedly meeting without official clearance. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

Zimbabwe police quash opposition courthouse protest over prolonged detention of activists

A woman holds the new Zimbabwean banknotes and coins called the ZiG, in the streets of Harare, Zimbabwe, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Zimbabwe started circulating banknotes and coins for another new currency Tuesday in its latest attempt to solve a long-running and at times baffling monetary crisis that has seen the government try gold coins and a digital currency among other ideas. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwe’s ZiG is the world’s newest currency and its latest attempt to resolve a money crisis

Ishmael Chokurongerwa, 56, a "self styled" prophet is seen at his shrine on a farm about 34 kilometers (21 miles) north of the capital, Harare, Wednesday, March, 13, 2024. Chokurongerwa led a sect with more than 100 members. Zimbabwean police on Wednesday said they arrested the man claiming to be a prophet of an apostolic sect at a shrine where believers stay in a compound and authorities found 16 unregistered graves, including those of infants, and more than 250 children used as cheap labor. (AP Photo)

‘Prophet’ charged in Zimbabwe court after police say his reclusive sect used 251 children as workers

Police with dogs are seen at a shrine on a farm about 34 kilometers (21 miles) north of the capital, Harare, Wednesday, March, 13, 2024. Zimbabwean police on Wednesday said they arrested a man claiming to be a prophet of an apostolic sect at a shrine where believers stay in a compound and authorities found 16 unregistered graves, including those of infants, and more than 250 children used as cheap labor.(AP Photo)

Zimbabwe police rescue 251 children used as labor and find graves in religious sect compound raid

Opposition supporters carry the coffin with the body of Moreblessing Ali, at her burial on the outskirts of Harare, Saturday, March, 2, 2024. A Zimbabwean activist slain two years ago was finally laid buried Saturday at a low key but tension filled event where tensions among party members betrayed the state of the country once promising opposition, which appears collapsing under the weight of infighting and allied state repression. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

At the funeral of a slain Zimbabwean activist, clashes and a low turnout mirror opposition decline

FILE - Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa addresses a press conference in Harare, on Aug. 27 2023. Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader has announced that he has quit his party, accusing the country's ruling party of hijacking the organization and causing the axing of his members of parliament and councilors. Nelson Chamisa, 45, who was leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change party, was President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s main rival in the 2018 and 2023 disputed elections. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)

Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader quits, claiming his party was hijacked by president’s ruling party

Zimbabwean opposition figure Job Sikhala disembarks from a prison truck upon his arrival at the magistrates courts in Harare, Wednesday, Jan, 24. 2024. A Zimbabwean court is expected to give judgment Wednesday on Sikhala who spent nearly two years in pretrial detention on political charges. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

A Zimbabwe opposition figure seen by supporters as the face of resistance to repression is convicted

A woman takes a break from the queue outside the passport offices in Harare, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. Atop many Christmas wish lists in economically troubled Zimbabwe is a travel document and people are flooding the passport office this holiday season ahead of a price hike planned in the New Year. The desperation at the office in the capital is palpable as some people fear the hike could push the cost of obtaining a passport out of reach and economic gloom feeds a surge in migration. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

A Christmas rush to get passports to leave Zimbabwe is fed by economic gloom and a price hike

In this photo supplied by pageant organiser John Karimazonde of the Mr and Miss Albinism Southern Africa Pageant, contestants take part in the pageant at the Harare International Conference Centre, Saturday Oct. 14, 2023. (Watson Ofumeli/Mr and Miss Albinism Southern Africa Pageant via AP)

Winner of albinism pageant says Zimbabwe event made her feel beautiful and provided sense of purpose

FILE - Zimbabwe's coach Shadreck Mlauzi gives instructions to his players during a group F match of the women's Olympic football tournament between Canada and Zimbabwe in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016. The temporary head of the Zimbabwe Football Association will wait to hear from the police before deciding on the future of women’s soccer team coach Shadreck Mlauzi after he was charged with sexual assault, it was reported on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine, File)

Zimbabwe women’s soccer coach to appear in court after being charged with sexual assault

FILE - Health workers attend to patients suffering from cholera symptoms at a local hospital in Harare, Tuesday, Sept, 11, 2018. Zimbabwe has recorded 100 suspected deaths from cholera and more than 5,000 possible cases since late Sept. 2023. That has prompted the government to impose restrictions to stop the spread of the disease, including limiting numbers at funerals and stopping some social gatherings in affected areas. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)

Zimbabwe announces 100 suspected cholera deaths and imposes restrictions on gatherings

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa prepares to deliver his speech in parliament during his State of the Nation address in Harare,Zimbabwe, Oct. 3, 2023. Zimbabwe's main opposition party boycotted Tuesdays first State of the Nation Adresss by Mnangagwa since disputed elections in August, another sign of the widening political cracks in the southern African nation as allegations of post-vote clampdown on government critics continue.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwe’s opposition boycotts president’s 1st State of the Nation speech since disputed election

The body of a dead miner lies on the ground wrapped in a plastic sheet after been retrieved from a collapsed mine shaft in Chegutu, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of the capital Harare, Saturday, Sept. 30 2023. Several people have died from the collapse of a gold mine in Zimbabwe, according to state media reports. (AP Photo)

The death toll in a collapsed gold mine in Zimbabwe expected to rise to 13, vice president says

6 miners killed, 15 trapped underground in collapse of a gold mine in Zimbabwe, state media reports

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa delivers his speech during his inauguration ceremony at the National Sports Stadium in the capital Harare, Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. Mnangagwa Monday hailed recent elections as a sign of the country’s “mature democracy” and a victory over Western adversaries, as he took an oath of office following polls whose credibility was questioned by multiple observer missions, including those from Africa. (AP Photo /Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwean president at his inauguration says the disputed election reveals a ‘mature democracy’

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa addresses a press conference at State House in Harare, Sunday, Aug. 27 2023. Authorities in Zimbabwe say President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been re-elected for a second and final term. The Zimbabwe Election Commission announced late Saturday that Mnangagwa won 52.6% of the votes in the midweek election. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwe’s opposition alleges ‘gigantic fraud’ in vote that extends the ZANU-PF party’s 43-year rule

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa attends a polling station to cast his vote, in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Polls have opened in Zimbabwe as President Emmerson Mnangagwa seeks a second and final term in a country with a history of violent and disputed votes. (AP Photo)

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa wins re-election after troubled vote, officials say

Armed riot police prepare to be deployed on the streets of Harare, Zimbabwe, Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. Hordes of police officers armed with batons, teargas canisters and some with guns were seen next to the result centre as Zimbabweans anxiously waited for the outcome of general elections after polls closed on Thursday and authorities tightened security around the results centre. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabweans anxiously wait for election results as African observer missions note voter intimidation

Voters wait in a queue to cast their votes at a polling station in Harare, Zimbabwe, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Polls have opened in Zimbabwe as President President Emmerson Mnangagwa seeks a second and final term in a country with a history of violent and disputed votes. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Voting extended after delays as Zimbabwe president known as ‘the crocodile’ seeks a second term

A man counts U.S. $100 bills at the craft and art market in Lagos, Nigeria, on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. Across the developing world, many countries are fed up with America's dominance of the global financial system — and especially the power of the dollar. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Emerging economies are pushing to end the dollar’s dominance. But what’s the alternative?

Supporters of Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa hold placards upon his arrival for a a rally on the outskirts of Harare on Sunday, July 17, 2023. In an interview with The Associated Press Chamisa gave warning that any evidence of tampering by Mnangagwa's ruling ZANU-PF party in this month's elections could lead to "total disaster" for an already-beleaguered nation. Zimbabwe has a history of violent and disputed votes. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

The killing of an opposition supporter in Zimbabwe was by ruling party followers, witnesses say