KETTY NYONIStaff Writer THE European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) says it is committed to working undeterred in observing Zimbabwe’s general elections set for August 23. This comes as the EU EOM last week deployed its 46 long-term observers to all the country’s provinces. Addressing the media in Harare yesterday, the EU EOM deputy…
SELF-EXILED former Cabinet minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, has vowed to continue fighting to take part in next month’s elections as an independent presidential candidate. This comes despite the devastating blow that he received yesterday after the Supreme Court confirmed an earlier High Court ruling barring him from participating in the poll. In dismissing Kasukuwere’s appeal against…
Ketty NyoniSTAFF WRITERnyonik@dailynew.co.zw AN UNACCEPTABLY high number of women continue to die in the country while giving birth. So notes the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which has further revealed that more than 1 800 pregnant women in Zimbabwe lose their lives every year while delivering. Speaking in Harare this week, UNFPA programme specialist for…
GOVERNMENT says it has so far licensed at least 50 foreign media houses to cover the 2023 general elections as global interest in the upcoming polls continues to grow. Addressing journalists attending a two-day Media and Election Reporting Training Workshop in Kadoma yesterday, ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services chief director Jonathan Gandari said…
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that viral hepatitis could kill more people than malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV combined by 2040 if not checked. The alert comes as WHO commemorated World Hepatitis Day yesterday, calling on governments to scale-up testing and treatment for the disease. “Millions of people are living with undiagnosed and untreated…
A HARARE family tried to kill their son-in law for abusing their daughter before forcing him to file a fake police report, a Harare magistrate heard on Thursday. Castain Gusha, 49, his wife Fungai Chivige, 44, and their daughter Define, 25, were arraigned before magistrate Taurai Manuwere on an attempted murder charge. Gusha and Chivige…
Ketty NyoniSTAFF WRITERnyonik@dailynews.co.zw IT IS a matter of time before Zimbabwe has its first woman president, the leader of the United Zimbabwe Alliance (UZA), Elisabeth Valerio, says. Speaking last night on independent national television station 3Ktv’s popular news and current affairs programme, Vantage, Valerio said it was very disappointing, in this regard, that fewer women…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said Zimbabwe was food-secure but was grateful for an offer of free grain from Russian President Vladimir Putin…
Yvonne Ncube and Brighton MuronzereyiSTAFF WRITERS THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) suffered a major blow yesterday after Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Bongani Ndlovu barred the party’s 12 aspiring National Assembly candidates from taking part in the August 23 elections for filing their papers out of time. This comes after 12 Zanu PF…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it is owed nearly $100 billion by residents and other ratepayers who are failing to regularly pay their debts. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the BCC finance manager, Isaac Matare, asked residents to pay their bills in order for the council to improve its service delivery and work…
