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Fungi Kwaramba POLITICAL EDITOR kwarambaf@dailynews.co.zw DARING MDC legislators on Tuesday openly revolted against the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC faction’s directive to disengage from parliamentary business after attending a portfolio committee meeting, as factional wars in the main opposition party took a new twist. This came a day after hordes of MPs roundly rejected overtures by the…

Vasco Chaya STAFF WRITER chayav@dailynews.co.zw  ©️  THE number of food-insecure people in urban areas is likely to increase to 3,3 million due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the World Food Programme (WFP) has said. This comes as the bigger chunk of Zimbabwe’s population is into informal trading, a sector that has been affected most by…

Vasco Chaya STAFF WRITER chayav@dailynews.co.zw ©️   THREE MDC Alliance officials who staged a flash demonstration in Harare over “hunger” were arrested yesterday, the Daily News can report. The three are MDC secretary for policy and Harare West legislator Joanna Mamombe, youth assembly vice-chairperson Cecilia Chimbiri and deputy organising secretary Netsai Marowa. They were arrested after…

Fungi Kwaramba POLITICAL EDITOR kwarambaf@dailynews.co.zw ©️  IN THE latest twist to the drama playing out within the MDC, it has emerged that many party legislators are not in favour of the push by Nelson Chamisa, pictured, and his top allies for them to “disengage” from Parliament with immediate effect. Part recordings of the party’s parliamentary…

©️ THE government said yesterday that it was being held back by the global shortage of reagents needed to conduct coronavirus tests, in its quest to expand its testing programme, the Daily News reports. This comes as doctors have implored the government to conduct more tests for Covid-19, warning that failure to do this could…

Blessings Mashaya and Shamiso Dzingire ©️  THE government has raised concerns over the number of returnees who are fleeing from quarantine centres, saying most of them are suspected criminals who fled to neighbouring countries. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, deputy Labour minister Lovemore Matuke said the government had received reports from various…

Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has demoted Health ministry permanent secretary Agnes Mahomva to the position of chief coordinator of the National Response to Covid-19 pandemic in the Office of the President and Cabinet. In a statement last night, chief secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda said the post was…

Nokuthaba Nkomo and Tendai Kamhungira STAFF WRITERS ©️  DOCTORS have once again warned that authorities should forestall a health catastrophe in the country by embarking on mass testing of people and increasing its surveillance at ports of entry, in the wake of the rising incidence of coronavirus through local transmission. Speaking to the Daily News…

By Blessings Mashaya and Shamiso Dzingire ©️  WITH schools set to remain closed for the time being — as authorities battle to contain the lethal coronavirus — teachers have asked the government to bail out learning institutions, to stop them from collapsing, the Daily News reports. This comes as Zimbabwe has entered the final week…