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Tariro Sajeni  STAFF WRITER sajenit@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE will soon receive 984 000 doses of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines through the World Health Organisation (WHO)-led Covax initiative. The country will receive the vaccines between this month and May in a major boost to the ongoing first phase of the inoculation exercise which commenced nationwide last…

Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO A 50-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo serial fraudster has been jailed for 27 months for allegedly duping a number of people of US$1 500. Elias Phiri appeared at the Western Commonage Magistrates’ Court facing four counts of fraud. Magistrate Jeconiah Ncube suspended six months of Phiri’s jail term on condition he pays back the…

CHITUNGWIZA Municipality’s housing administrator Alex Mukwewa appeared before the Harare Magistrate Court yesterday accused of improperly allocating a commercial stand to his boss’s daughter. Mukwewa, 46, was not asked to plead to allegations of criminal abuse of duty when he appeared before magistrate Stanford Mambanje. Prosecutor Ephraim Zinyandu alleges that on December 6, 2019, the…

Nyasha Dube STAFF WRITER duben@dailynews.co.zw HIGH Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi has rejected bail applications by two of the suspects in the US$2,7 million cash-intransit heist that occurred in January. Trymore Chapfika and Charles Chirara initially applied for bail separately at the High Court, but the applications were later consolidated after the prosecution led by…

Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO THE United Nations (UN), through its International Organisation for Migration (IOM), has distributed agricultural inputs to migrant returnees and small-scale farmers in Lupane, Hwange and Gokwe South and North districts. In its latest report on how they are assisting the Zimbabwean government in alleviating Covid-19 related poverty in the southern region…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has described the Covid-19 pandemic as a threat to world peace and security, calling on African countries to revamp their health delivery systems. Addressing other African leaders during the virtual meeting of the Aswan Forum on Sustainable Peace and Development, Mnangagwa said countries must work together to deal with post Covid-19 effects….