ZIMBABWE will host Food and Agriculture Organisation’s 31st Africa Regional Conference from March 23 to 27 in Victoria Falls to be attended by more than 500 delegates from all over Africa despite the coronavirus scare. Minister of Agriculture Perrance Shiri told journalists yesterday in the capital that the conference would run under the theme ‘‘Agriculture…
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has extended the United States of America(USA)’s sanctions against Zimbabwe after accusing Harare of accelerating its human rights violations and failing to implement needed political reforms, the Daily News reports. This comes as Zimbabwe’s re-engagement efforts with Western powers appear to be floundering, following growing criticism of Harare’s alleged failure to break…
A three-month-old infant died when his mother fell from an ox-drawn Scotch cart and landed on her back where the infant was strapped. The horrific accident occurred in Nyazura last week. The mother, Beatrice Bauren, 28, was in the company of Enock Manwei, 14, when they approached a steep slope and one of the oxen…
UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Africa (Uneca) executive secretary Vera Songwe has said African countries, including Zimbabwe, lack leadership with clarity and direction. Speaking on the side-lines of the just-ended sixth session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD) in Victoria Falls, Songwe said: “I think we need to improve on leadership because…
THE Supreme Court has reserved judgment in an application in which two MDC activists Last Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere, who were jailed for murdering a police officer in Harare’s Glen View suburb in 2011, are challenging their conviction and 20-year prison term. The activists, represented by Beatrice Mtetwa and Charles Kwaramba, are challenging the court’s…
HIGH Court judges Pisirayi Kwenda and Benjamin Chikowero have ordered that former Tourism and Hospitality minister Prisca Mupfumira go for trial after throwing out her application in which she sought a review of a decision by the Harare Magistrates’ Courts. Mupfumira approached the High Court after acting chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi dismissed her application. She…
THE United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) regional director Julitta Onabanjo is unhappy with the rate at which the number of teenage pregnancies continue to rise in Zimbabwe. Onabanjo’s comments came in the wake of a recent Unesco report which revealed that 6 159 girls dropped out of school last year due to early unintended pregnancies….
PEOPLE arrested for illegally trading in foreign currency are not being successfully convicted because the public is unwilling to be witnesses, Home Affairs deputy minister Mike Madiro has said. Madiro told Senators recently that there was need for citizens to team up with the police to fight crime, including the black market foreign currency trade….
GRAIN millers are in the habit of hoarding government’s subsidised maize meal to sell on the black market, a development that has led to serious shortages of the product, Parliament heard yesterday. This was said by minister of Industry Sekai Nzenza in the Senate while responding to a question by MDC Senator for Bulawayo Gideon…
INDEPENDENT power producers (IPPS), who are courting foreign investors, have told Parliament the financiers are demanding power purchasing agreements (PPA)s which stipulate that payment be denominated in US$, but payable in local currency so that shareholders are not shortchanged on their dividends. Appearing before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Energy and Power Development to give…
