THE World Food Programme (WFP) has distributed food aid to more than 500 000 vulnerable people from November to mid-December this year, its latest report reveals. The WFP said Zimbabwe is among the 20 countries with the highest food insecurity statistics in the world. “Zimbabwe continues to be among the 20 countries where food insecurity…
ZAPU president Sibangilizwe Nkomo has expressed concern over the credibility of next year’s harmonised elections, saying chances were high that the plebiscite will be marred by political violence. However, the Zapu leader was quick to point out that the solution to end the tradition of political violence lies with the ruling party Zanu PF as…
A DAY after a Lincoln, United States, man was shot and killed, police arrested a 23-year-old on Christmas Eve who they allege…
ZIMBABWE recently launched the national disaster loss database, also known as the Sendai platform, a web-based tool for reporting validated data on…
Nyasha KunyiswaSTAFF WRITERkunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw HARARE City Council (HCC) yesterday said cases of typhoid and diarrhoea infections had risen from nine last week to 16 on Saturday. Speaking to the Daily News, the city’s epidemiologist and disease control officer Michael Vhere said council officials were worried over the increase of typhoid and diarrhoea cases. The 16 cases…
BULAWAYO mayor, Solomon Mguni, has pleaded with residents to exercise patience as the city’s water crisis worsens. The local authority has in recent weeks been forced to further extend its water shedding regime, a development which has seen some suburbs going for over two weeks without the precious liquid. With two of the city’s six…
IF IT were not for Zimbabwe, the world’s longest-serving president Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea might not have come this…
THE Forestry commission has moved to rope in mining communities and schools as part of an initiative meant to restore lost forests. Zvishavane Forestry extension officer Tendai Mufandaedza in an interview said the commission is targeting to create community woodlots particularly in mining areas as “research proved that a huge number of trees is lost…
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Zimbabwe for cooperation with the Faculties of Law and Languages. In an interview with New Ziana last week, ZHRC executive director Delis Mazambani said the department of Languages would be assisting with translations, while the Faculty of Law would…
WHEN Zimbabwean deminer Memory Mutepfa digs up a landmine, places it in a pit and blows it up using electronic detonators, she…
