Ashley Simango

Writer based in Zimbabwe

About the author

Ashley Simango is a writer based in Zimbabwe. She got an honourable mention at the 2021 Arrude Jesuit Center For Ethics in Society High School Essay Competition. Her writings on diplomacy and economics appeared on Newsweek, Fast Company, The New Arab and The Africa Report.

Latest Posts

Forcing refugees into an overcrowded camp deprives children of schooling and hurts the local economy.

Mozambican refugees wait for registration at Kapise camp in Malawi's Mwanza district January 18, 2016. Thousands of Mozambicans have fled across the border to refugee camps in Malawi in the last month, saying Mozambique's Frelimo government forces are burning homes and killing civilians in a campaign against Renamo guerrillas in an escalation of a simmering conflict between old civil war foes. Spokesmen for both Frelimo and Renamo each told Reuters that the other side was responsible for attacks on their members in various parts of the country but would not give details about the violence that prompted the refugee exodus. REUTERS/Eldson Chagara

Instead of addressing the concerns of NHS workers and teachers, Britain is plundering talent from Zimbabwe.

Senior doctors at Parirenyatwa General Hospital, Zimbabwe's biggest medical centre, hold placards during a demonstration to protest a lack of medicines, gloves and bandages in Harare, Zimbabwe March 13, 2019. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

The US knows what it wants from Africa — it is not democracy. Does Africa know what it wants from the US?

U.S. President Joe Biden talks with South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa as they arrive for a working session during G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, Britain, June 12, 2021. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS

But the state needs to tread carefully to ensure this victory does not trigger another episode of political violence.

A group of people protest outside the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) embassy calling for the speedy extradition of the Guptas

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