The vaccine rollout is proceeding full steam ahead, with over 190,000 doses administered on 8 July according to the health department. Over 4 million vaccine doses have been administered in South Africa since the rollout began in February. Over 1.2 million people have been fully vaccinated (either one Johnson & Johnson or two Pfizer doses). […]
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Gukurahundi victims are concerned that perpetrators of the early 1980s human rights atrocities are dying without facing justice for the heinous crimes they committed during Zimbabwe’s darkest hour. This follows the death early Thursday morning of Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) Edzai Chimonyo after a long battle with cancer. Senior opposition party officials and civil society […]
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Zimbabwe: Mash Central Mourns Top War Vet
Zanu PF Mashonaland Central war veterans league has mourned the death of one of the most senior war veterans in the province, Cde Michael Chakabva, whose liberation struggle name was Cde Vhu D Masuko. The provincial war veterans league secretary for information and publicity Cde Bruce Mugadzaweta said Cde Chakabva, who was a member of […]
… Says debts owed aviation agencies hit N37bn … Vows to recover every kobo … Blasts Arik, Bi-Courtney over contract implementation … Notes Aviation Ministry has released 67 air accident reports By Johnbosco Agbakwuru The Federal Government said yesterday that airline operators in the country must refund the full cost of travel tickets to passengers […]
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube says the government has so far used US$40 million of the reserved US$100 million meant for Covid-19 vaccine acquisition. Ncube said this as he and Health and Childcare Deputy Minister John Mangwiro received two million doses of Sinovac drugs at the Robert Mugabe International Airport Thursday. Responding to questions from the […]
Polling units have been said to be central to the electoral process as they are the location where electorates exercise their voting rights. In February, when Nigeria’s electoral commission chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, said the number of the country’s polling units had remained the same since 1996, it came as a surprise to many. Despite population […]
Controversy is trailing the primary as INEC and aspirants insist the event did not hold. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has spoken up about the controversial primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra State. INEC spokesperson, Festus Okoye, told PREMIUM TIMES the Commission received a damning report on the APC primary […]
Panic buying by federal government agencies, multi-nationals and merchants from neighbouring countries is partly responsible for the hike in prices of assorted foodstuff in Nigeria, Daily Trust investigation has shown. Watchers of the agric sector told our reporters that high cost of food items such as maize, millet, guinea corn, rice, among others has dwarfed […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has transmitted the 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and the Fiscal Strategy Paper to the House of Representatives for consideration and approval. Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila read the communication from the president yesterday. The president in the letter expressed gratitude “for the enduring collaboration and commitment of the leadership and Honourable members in […]
The Buhari administration’s June ban on Twitter in Nigeria, combined with proposals within Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) to allow the federal government to establish a “code of conduct” for Nigeria’s media to counter, among other things, “fake news,” rightly sets off alarm bells within the human rights community. Nigeria is challenged on multiple fronts: […]
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has again warned Western countries to desist from lecturing Zimbabwe on the need to uphold human rights as the same states were involved in worse abuses against their citizens. Mnangagwa was speaking Wednesday at the State House where he was bidding farewell to Zimbabwe’s ambassador to the United Nations, Albert Chimbindi, and […]
Developing countries need clarity and confidence now that the $100 billion a year pledged to help them tackle climate change will be delivered Alok Sharma is the UK’s COP26 President-Designate for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference In just four months the countries of the world will meet in Glasgow for COP26, the critical […]
VICE President and Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga has dismissed a petition by pharmacists who were seeking to have the Public Health Act amended, and include them into the ministry’s top administrative posts. Speaking during a virtual oral evidence hearing Wednesday regarding the petition by the Retail Pharmacist Association of Zimbabwe to the Health Parliamentary Portfolio […]
South Sudan’s ten years as an independent country have been marked by pervasive insecurity, a catastrophic humanitarian crisis and endemic corruption. The euphoria following South Sudan’s independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011 was short lived. Less than a year and a half later, the resource-rich country was plunged into a brutal civil war, at […]
Women risk being overlooked in coronavirus responses with more than 10% of official taskforces made up entirely of men, finds U.N. analysis Global efforts to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic are under threat because women are being excluded from critical decision-making roles, the United Nations said on Thursday. Only 6% of coronavirus task forces, which […]
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Tanzania: Ministry Eyes Major Reforms
THE ministry of Information, Culture, Arts and Sports has innovated five pillars geared at expediting government’s development strategies. The pillars are envisaged to transform all sectors falling under the docket in order to ensure they contribute immensely to national development. They include reaching out to its various stakeholders to address their challenges, doing institutional and […]
Abuja — The Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has defied protests from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, civil society groups, others and begun the screening of Lauretta Onochie as one of the National Commissioners of INEC. Onochie is the Special Assistant on Social Media to President Muhammadu Buhari. The Senator […]
Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli Sunday received a report on citizens’ complaints registered with the Cabinet’s ombudsman office during the month of June. Director of the ombudsman office Tareq el Refaei, who prepared the report, stated that some 103,000 complaints and pleas had been received during June, adding that 98,000 of them had been revised. About […]