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Nyasha Kunyiswa kunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw THE Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks), in partnership with African Parks, is renovating the Matusadonha National Park in Kariba, Mashonaland West province, at a cost of US$6 million. The renovations aim to transform the national park into a more popular tourist attracting resort. African Parks is a non-profit conservation organization…

By Hazel Marimbiza THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has urged the government to further decentralise its offices to the country’s 10 provinces saying this will ensure human rights services are easily accessible to all citizens. Speaking at a human rights event in Bulawayo at the weekend, ZHRC chairperson Elasto Mugwadi said while the government…

THE use of contraceptives has prevented more than three million unintended pregnancies, nearly a million unsafe abortions, and over 12 000 maternal deaths in Zimbabwe over the last five years, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Speaking during the launch of the National Family Planning Strategy 2022–2026 and family planning 2030 commitments in…

AS I travelled through the wooded mountainous landscape of Chimanimani,on my first visit as World Bank Country Director for Zimbabwe, I was confronted with a landscape scarred by landslides that occurred during the 2019 Cyclone Idai. These scars were a stark reminder of the devastation that befell communities here and the resulting loss of lives,…

BY YVONNE NCUBE THE government has given the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) the green light to venture into a joint solar system project to produce its own electricity in order to enable the local authority to address the water woes that have been bedevilling it and have been exacerbated by rolling power cuts. Speaking during…

INCARCERATED South Africa based Zimbabwean businessman Frank Buyanga, latest attempt at seeking bail has been postponed to next Tuesday at a Johannesburg magistrates’ court. Buyanga was arrested in South Africa last month by Interpol after an arrest warrant was issued against him on charges of child trafficking, immigration violations, forgery and contempt of court. He…

TESLA’S Powerwall units, installed at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe’s base station towers by Distributed Power Africa (DPA), are helping the country’s largest mobile telecommunications operator reduce the impact of the current national power shortages. A significant drop in electricity generation from Zimbabwe’s two main power stations, Kariba and Hwange, has led to load shedding of up…