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HARARE – The president of United Nations-led International Fund for Agricultural Development (Ifad), Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo yesterday said Zimbabwe needs to expand its irrigation scheme to combat drought and poverty. This comes after the organisation offered Zimbabwe grants and low-interest loans to improve food and nutrition security, provide employment opportunities for rural youth, and reduce…

HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe requires massive foreign direct investment to achieve its transformation agenda that will see the country achieving a middle-income status by 2030. “National wealth is only created when national resources are gainfully exploited through a process of economic transformation. Our minerals remain inert stones or encrustations on rock until…

HARARE – Of the $145 million that Harare City Council (HCC) collected between January and September this year, more than 50 percent was channelled towards salaries while the remainder went to service delivery. Presenting the city’s 2019 $472,2 million budget, finance committee chairperson Luckson Mukunguma said the salaries, service delivery ratio is against the ministry…

HARARE – Civil and Health Services Apex Councils yesterday demanded an urgent solution to their grievances, warning that failure to address their concerns will result in workers unable to report for duty. This comes as doctors are on strike, protesting the severe shortages of pharmaceutical drugs at public hospitals — as well as the selling…

HARARE – War veterans yesterday moved a motion ahead of the Zanu PF annual national people’s conference to have the ruling party use its supermajority in Parliament to raise the minimum age for presidential aspirants from the current 40 years to 52. Widely seen as targeted at MDC Alliance presidential candidate in the just-ended harmonised…

HARARE – The crisis at the country’s public hospitals is worsening, after nurses said yesterday that they would start reporting for duty for three days a week due to Zimbabwe’s biting fuel shortages, as well as their outstanding working conditions demands. This comes as doctors continued with their strike yesterday despite claims by the government…

HARARE – With factionalism refusing to die in Zanu PF, anxious power-brokers in the party are scheming to keep President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the helm of both the former liberation movement and the government for the next decade, the Daily News can report. Well-placed sources who spoke to the newspaper yesterday said the move by…

HARARE – Zanu PF’s Mashonaland West political commissar Simon Solomon appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa on charges of illegally selling a farm for $12 000. He was arrested yesterday and detained at Kadoma Central Police Station before appearing in court today where he filed a bail application. The state, represented by investigating officer Elizabeth…

HARARE – The Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry ministry has embarked on a nation-wide clean-up campaign which will officially begin tomorrow. President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to preside over the official launch of the campaign that will take place at Machipisa, Highfield in Harare. According to a statement published by the Environmental Management Agency (Ema),…