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| 1996–97 |
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| The IMF suspended assistance to Zimbabwe for failing to attain targets for economic reform and failing to reduce the budgetary deficits. | 1 |
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| 1997 |
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| Allegations of high-level government corruption fanned popular protests. Peasants seized 450,000 hectares in protest of the slow pace of land reform. | 2 |
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| 1998, Oct. 21 |
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| Zimbabwe joined Namibia and Angola in supporting Pres. Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as he battled rebel Tutsi forces and troops from Rwanda and Uganda. Zimbabwe supplied more than 11,000 soldiers to the Congo civil war. | 3 |
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| Nov. 4, 11, 18 |
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| Riots and protests led by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) shut down almost all the country's business and industry in objection to Pres. Robert Gabriel Mugabe's handling of the economy, his controversial land redistribution program, and his costly military commitment to the Congo civil war. | 4 |
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