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Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw UNICEF has revealed that Zimbabwe is among countries struggling to improve breastfeeding as the world commemorates World Breastfeeding Week 2020. This comes as the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned that the country was likely to experience up to 50 percent increase in…

Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zwAMID the country’s deepening political and economic crises, church leaders have once again implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, to take the initiative to launch inclusive national dialogue to heal the nation.   Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, a number of prominent clerics said as the situation continued to take…

Jeffrey Muvundusi in BULAWAYO ZIMBABWEAN immigrants have once again been given a reprieve after the South African government extended the expiry date of their visas to October. Thousands of Zimbabweans in that country were facing deportation following the expiry of their visas after travel restrictions induced by the Covid-19 lockdown were imposed. However, many had…

Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zwZESA Holdings executive chairperson Sydney Gata has accused Energy minister Fortune Chasi of undermining efforts to curb corruption at the power company and of working in cahoots with people being investigated for graft, the Daily News reports. This comes after Chasi suspended Gata and ordered the Zesa Holdings board to…

POLITICAL analysts have blamed a combination of poor planning and the escalating infighting consuming the country’s main opposition for Friday’s failed anti-government protests, the Daily News On Sunday reports.   However, MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti vowed yesterday that the opposition would mount more potent protests going forward, in a bid to oust President…

SECURITY forces maintained a heavy presence around the country yesterday, amid talk of more protests by the opposition and pro-democracy groups.   This comes as Zimbabwe is under a dusk-to-dawn curfew that was imposed by authorities to combat the spread of the lethal coronavirus which is now running amok in the country.   Yesterday, police…

SENIOR police officers, among them deputy commissioner-general Stephen Mutamba, have been accused of frustrating investigations into alleged fraudulent land deals by Delatfin (Pvt) Ltd owner Felix Munyaradzi. This emerged at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday when alleged land baron Munyaradzi appeared for initial remand before regional magistrate Ngoni Nduna facing four counts of fraud. Munyaradzi…

ZIMBABWE on Friday recorded 14 coronavirus (Covid-19) deaths, bringing the total to 67, the ministry of Health and Child Care said in an update. This comes at a time when the number of recoveries is going up. The country on Friday had 1 004 recoveries, after an increase of 80 — 65 in the Midlands…