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Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw ©️  THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned that the country is likely to experience up to 50 percent increase in child malnutrition owing to the country’s worsening economic crisis and the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19). This comes as the United Nations Development Programme…

SINDISO MHLOPE Senior Staff Writer msindiso@dailynewsonsunday.co.zw ©️   NELSON Chamisa’s alleged “big-headedness” and refusal to join the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) has hampered much-needed national dialogue to help resolve Zimbabwe’s myriad challenges, presidential spokesperson George Charamba has said. Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Daily News on Sunday this week, Charamba also insisted that President…

A LOCAL representative of a company that is at the centre of a US$60 million coronavirus supplies procurement storm, Delish Nguwaya, appeared in court yesterday, the Daily News on Sunday reports. The 36-year-old — who represents Drax Consult SAGL and Drax LL, also known as Drax International — is facing two counts of fraud. He…

AS THE country records sharp increases in Covid-19 cases — mostly from returnees — doctors have called on government to test all those coming back into the country on the first day they arrive in Zimbabwe. In interviews with the Daily News  on Sunday, representatives of doctors’ organisations argued that most people in quarantine centres…

THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has warned that opening schools without adequately setting up safety measures to mitigate the spread of the deadly coronavirus (Covid-19) could be disastrous, indicating that schools are still gravely ill-equipped to reopen. This comes as the government has indicated that schools will open on July 28, 2020, with teachers’…

Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw ©️  HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo is in the dog box after the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) opened a docket to probe his qualifications and controversial coronavirus deals following a complaint by a private citizen, the Daily News reports. This comes as Zacc and the police have also questioned senior…

Tendai Kamhungira and Blessings Mashaya STAFF WRITERS THE European Union (EU) has once again expressed disappointment with the government over failure to implement comprehensive political and economic reforms, the Daily News reports. This comes as Harare’s commitment to respecting human rights in the country has once again come under the spotlight, following growing accusations of…

THE government has increased the amount of money paid to millers providing subsidised roller meal by 52 percent, at a time when the commodity has disappeared from the supermarkets and is being sold on the black market at inflated prices. This comes as small-scale millers have appealed to the government to increase maize allocations and…