Government in collaboration with United Nations organisations and other private players will work towards strengthening coordination systems and implementing effective disability programmes for the reduction of stigma and discrimination that affects the rights of people with disabilities including women and girls. Government adopted the National Disability Programme in June this year, a development meant to […]
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Governments must act fast to ensure their people are fed and avoid conflict the continent cannot afford. Since the onset of COVID-19, global food prices have rocketed, putting pressure on the world’s most fragile countries. The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) believes that ‘soaring prices – and growing insecurity – could foment further […]
No one, not even a disoriented fading African President will be willing to wine and dine with a brutal African military junta for any reason. But the fact is that if an elected African civilian President will choose to become a brutal dictator overnight to terrorize his citizens and practice rampant corruption, dehumanization, and abuse […]
HAPPINESS in the majority of the Zimbabweans continues to decline due to poor service delivery and lack of proper governance, the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ) said Monday. This was said by Blessing Makwara, the EFZ secretary-general while giving oral evidence before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Accounts on the Auditor General’s (AG) 2019 […]
The Department of Health on Monday confirmed that the United Kingdom would consider the data provided by South African government scientists in their next review of its red list within 14 days. This comes after the local government experts had a meeting with their UK counterparts over the red list of high-risk countries. The island […]
EIGHT people, recently arrested for illegally occupying part of businessman-cum-politician, Phillip Chiyangwa’s Sinoia Citrus Estates, have been fined $2 500 each or face 30 days imprisonment. The illegal settlers; Soul Machingura (42), Sarah Samhu (40), Tsitsi Ganyaupfu (26), Klite Musiiwa (16), Mitchel Makope (21), Maria Muzenda (23), Sarudzai Gwededza (37), and Chido Chonzi (30), were […]
President Emmerson Mnangagwa Monday warned that the country risks a rising unemployment rate and more loss of lives if climate change effects are not mitigated immediately. Mnangagwa is due to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) to be hosted by the United Kingdom in Glasgow, Scotland where he will join […]
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Zimbabwe: Nine New Judges to Be Sworn in
NINE new judges recommended by the Judicial Service Commission and accepted by President Mnangagwa for appointment as judges of the High Court will tomorrow take their judicial oaths. The nine were among the 35 aspiring candidates that were interviewed to fill the vacant positions of the High Court after promotion of six senior High Court […]
Former Commissioner for Lands and Survey in Benue state, Mr. John Tondu has petitioned the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over the fate of over 120,000 prospective voters displaced by armed herdsmen in seven Council Wards of Guma Local Government Area of the state. He urged the electoral body to within 21 days make necessary […]
Police have said Kawempe North MP Muhammad Ssegirinya is being detained at Special Investigations Division in Kireka on fresh charges of treason and incitement to violence. The MP was re-arrested at Kigo prison on Monday; hours after the High Court in Kampala granted him bail on six counts, including murder, attempted murder and aiding and […]
Deputy Minister of State Prime Minister’s Office (Investment) William Ole Nasha died on Monday night in Dodoma, the President Samia Suluhu Hassan confirmed the death but couldn’t divulge more details. He was also a Member of Parliament (MP) for Ngorongoro constituency on Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) ticket. Ole Nasha has held a number of government […]
Governors and monarchs from the 19 northern states yesterday kicked against the insistence by governors from the southern part of the country for power shift to the region, describing the demand as unconstitutional. Daily Trust reports that the Southern Governors Forum had in July demanded that power must shift to the south in the interest […]
The governors oppose the positions of their southern counterparts on key national issues Governors of the 19 northern states met with top traditional rulers of the region on Monday in Kaduna. At the end of the meeting, Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong issued a statement containing their resolutions. Read the resolutions below: RESOLUTIONS OF THE […]
Reports of a failed coup attempt in Sudan make clear the fragility of the transitional government, which is riven by civil-military tensions. In 2019, critical elements of Sudan’s security forces made common cause with protesters to push former President Omar al-Bashir and his National Congress Party from power. But the two groups had wildly different […]
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Malawi: IMF, Malawi Talk ECF
Minister of Finance Felix Mlusu is holding a press conference in Lilongwe to update the nation on the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Extended Credit Facility ECF. Mlusu says Government is negotiating with the Fund for Malawi to access the facility. He adds that though some issues have emerged in the discussions with IMF, Government is […]
Minister of public enterprises Leon Jooste has bemoaned the ‘culture’ of reputable and qualified Namibians opting not to serve on parastatal boards because of political interference and the poor implementation of corporate governance architecture in the sector. Jooste said the government is not keen to rush for the privatisation of struggling parastatals that are failing […]
The US government says there is no excuse for the Zimbabwean government to continue with its suspension of holding elections as the conditions are in place to allow for the polls to take place . The President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration suspended by-elections last year citing the need to control the spread of the virus, a […]
The State has paraded two witnesses in the NBS Bank Fraud Case involving a businessman Dickson Kachingwe and two others being suspected of stealing K1 billion through dubious transactions. Giving their testimonies at Blantyre High Court, the two witnesses: Harold Phiri, Risk Manager and Faith Jere, Operations Manager both from NBS Bank said Dickson Kachingwe […]