diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1a5d42ec9..a13327d21 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ Validator                               | Description
 **isMagnetURI(str)**                      | check if the string is a [magnet uri format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme).
 **isMD5(str)**                          | check if the string is a MD5 hash.<br/><br/>Please note that you can also use the `isHash(str, 'md5')` function. Keep in mind that MD5 has some collision weaknesses compared to other algorithms (e.g., SHA).
 **isMimeType(str)**                     | check if the string matches to a valid [MIME type](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_type) format
-**isMobilePhone(str [, locale [, options]])**          | check if the string is a mobile phone number,<br/><br/>(locale is either an array of locales (e.g `['sk-SK', 'sr-RS']`) OR one of `['am-Am', 'ar-AE', 'ar-BH', 'ar-DZ', 'ar-EG', 'ar-IQ', ar-JO', 'ar-KW', 'ar-SA', 'ar-SY', 'ar-TN', 'be-BY', 'bg-BG', 'bn-BD', 'cs-CZ', 'da-DK', 'de-DE', 'de-AT', 'de-CH', 'el-GR', 'en-AU', 'en-CA', 'en-GB', 'en-GG', 'en-GH', 'en-HK', 'en-MO', 'en-IE', 'en-IN',  'en-KE', 'en-MT', 'en-MU', 'en-NG', 'en-NZ', 'en-PK', 'en-RW', 'en-SG', 'en-SL', 'en-UG', 'en-US', 'en-TZ', 'en-ZA', 'en-ZM', 'es-CL', 'es-CR', 'es-EC', 'es-ES', 'es-MX', 'es-PA', 'es-PY', 'es-UY', 'et-EE', 'fa-IR', 'fi-FI', 'fj-FJ', 'fo-FO', 'fr-BE', 'fr-FR', 'fr-GF', 'fr-GP', 'fr-MQ', 'fr-RE', 'he-IL', 'hu-HU', 'id-ID', 'it-IT', 'ja-JP', 'kk-KZ', 'kl-GL', 'ko-KR', 'lt-LT', 'ms-MY', 'nb-NO', 'ne-NP', 'nl-BE', 'nl-NL', 'nn-NO', 'pl-PL', 'pt-BR', 'pt-PT', 'ro-RO', 'ru-RU', 'sl-SI', 'sk-SK', 'sr-RS', 'sv-SE', 'th-TH', 'tr-TR', 'uk-UA', 'vi-VN', 'zh-CN', 'zh-HK', 'zh-MO', 'zh-TW']` OR defaults to 'any'. If 'any' or a falsey value is used, function will check if any of the locales match).<br/><br/>`options` is an optional object that can be supplied with the following keys: `strictMode`, if this is set to `true`, the mobile phone number must be supplied with the country code and therefore must start with `+`. Locale list is `validator.isMobilePhoneLocales`.
+**isMobilePhone(str [, locale [, options]])**          | check if the string is a mobile phone number,<br/><br/>(locale is either an array of locales (e.g `['sk-SK', 'sr-RS']`) OR one of `['am-Am', 'ar-AE', 'ar-BH', 'ar-DZ', 'ar-EG', 'ar-IQ', ar-JO', 'ar-KW', 'ar-SA', 'ar-SY', 'ar-TN', 'be-BY', 'bg-BG', 'bn-BD', 'cs-CZ', 'da-DK', 'de-DE', 'de-AT', 'de-CH', 'el-GR', 'en-AU', 'en-CA', 'en-GB', 'en-GG', 'en-GH', 'en-HK', 'en-MO', 'en-IE', 'en-IN',  'en-KE', 'en-MT', 'en-MU', 'en-NG', 'en-NZ', 'en-PK', 'en-RW', 'en-SG', 'en-SL', 'en-UG', 'en-US', 'en-TZ', 'en-ZA', 'en-ZM', 'en-ZW' , 'es-CL', 'es-CR', 'es-EC', 'es-ES', 'es-MX', 'es-PA', 'es-PY', 'es-UY', 'et-EE', 'fa-IR', 'fi-FI', 'fj-FJ', 'fo-FO', 'fr-BE', 'fr-FR', 'fr-GF', 'fr-GP', 'fr-MQ', 'fr-RE', 'he-IL', 'hu-HU', 'id-ID', 'it-IT', 'ja-JP', 'kk-KZ', 'kl-GL', 'ko-KR', 'lt-LT', 'ms-MY', 'nb-NO', 'ne-NP', 'nl-BE', 'nl-NL', 'nn-NO', 'pl-PL', 'pt-BR', 'pt-PT', 'ro-RO', 'ru-RU', 'sl-SI', 'sk-SK', 'sr-RS', 'sv-SE', 'th-TH', 'tr-TR', 'uk-UA', 'vi-VN', 'zh-CN', 'zh-HK', 'zh-MO', 'zh-TW']` OR defaults to 'any'. If 'any' or a falsey value is used, function will check if any of the locales match).<br/><br/>`options` is an optional object that can be supplied with the following keys: `strictMode`, if this is set to `true`, the mobile phone number must be supplied with the country code and therefore must start with `+`. Locale list is `validator.isMobilePhoneLocales`.
 **isMongoId(str)**                      | check if the string is a valid hex-encoded representation of a [MongoDB ObjectId][mongoid].
 **isMultibyte(str)**                    | check if the string contains one or more multibyte chars.
 **isNumeric(str [, options])**                      | check if the string contains only numbers.<br/><br/>`options` is an object which defaults to `{no_symbols: false}`. If `no_symbols` is true, the validator will reject numeric strings that feature a symbol (e.g. `+`, `-`, or `.`).
diff --git a/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js b/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js
index 795088cc4..b711ddb32 100644
--- a/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js
+++ b/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ const phones = {
   'en-US': /^((\+1|1)?( |-)?)?(\([2-9][0-9]{2}\)|[2-9][0-9]{2})( |-)?([2-9][0-9]{2}( |-)?[0-9]{4})$/,
   'en-ZA': /^(\+?27|0)\d{9}$/,
   'en-ZM': /^(\+?26)?09[567]\d{7}$/,
+  'en-ZW': /^(\+263)[0-9]{9}$/,
   'es-CL': /^(\+?56|0)[2-9]\d{1}\d{7}$/,
   'es-CR': /^(\+506)?[2-8]\d{7}$/,
   'es-EC': /^(\+?593|0)([2-7]|9[2-9])\d{7}$/,
diff --git a/test/validators.js b/test/validators.js
index 935049729..791e0296d 100755
--- a/test/validators.js
+++ b/test/validators.js
@@ -5463,6 +5463,26 @@ describe('Validators', () => {
           '966684590',
         ],
       },
+      {
+        locale: ['en-ZW'],
+        valid: [
+          '+263561890123',
+          '+263715558041',
+          '+263775551112',
+          '+263775551695',
+          '+263715556633',
+        ],
+        invalid: [
+          '12345',
+          '',
+          'Vml2YW11cyBmZXJtZtesting123',
+          '+2631234567890',
+          '+2641234567',
+          '+263981234',
+          '4736338855',
+          '66338855',
+        ],
+      },
       {
         locale: 'ru-RU',
         valid: [