Nigeria, Sept. 11 -- The Zimbabwean government has declared President Emmerson Mnangagwa's birthday, 15 September, an annual national public holiday.

The new holiday was introduced through a new regulation, Statutory Instrument 148 of 2026, which declared 15 September an annual public holiday known as Munhumutapa Day.

Local media reported that a notice to this effect was published on Wednesday.

"His Excellency the President, in terms of section 2(2) of the Public Holidays and Prohibition of Business Act [Chapter 10:21], hereby makes the following notice:

"1. This notice may be cited as the Public Holidays and Prohibition of Business (Declaration of Public Holiday) Notice, 2026. 2. It is hereby declared that the 15th of September every...