THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) yesterday tightened screws on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government after they maintained sanctions against the Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI), citing human rights abuses against civilians by the security forces. The European Union Council of Foreign Ministers of all 27 member states of the group resolved to maintain the arms embargo to prod…
OVER 60 percent of men are looking after children who are not their own, data analysis for tests conducted on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) specimens tested by Global DNA Zimbabwe for the year 2019 reveals. The 2019 statistics, which produced a 63 percent negative result, is lower than the 2018 statistical evaluation which showed 70 percent….
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa says he will approach Sadc and the African Union (AU) in a bid to compel the government to accept former South African President Thabo Mbeki as a mediator in the country’s political deadlock, the Daily News reports. This comes as the government has effectively vetoed Mbeki’s mediation efforts by insisting that…
AS ZIMBABWE battles to rebuild its broken health delivery system, Parirenyatwa Hospital is to set up a centre to perform open heart surgeries, the Daily News reports. This comes as the country’s public health system has been plagued by myriad challenges over the past two decades, including operating with obsolete equipment and suffering acute shortages…
THE World Food Programme (WFP) says the government must strengthen its social security nets to compliment humanitarian aid being offered to food insecure families. This comes at a time when the country’s food and economic crises are worsening with about eight million people facing starvation. It also comes after the WFP recently revealed that it…
LOCAL non-governmental organisations under the banner of Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) have appealed to the public to reject the recently-gazetted Constitution Amendment Bill, saying it takes the country back to dictatorship. The much-criticised Amendment Bill proposes changes ranging from scrapping the contentious provision of presidential running mates to the selection of judges and prosecutors…
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa says MDC councillors running several municipalities across the country are not to blame for poor service delivery as they do not have total control of the local authorities. Speaking at the Bulawayo Press Club recently, Chamisa said local authorities were at the mercy of the government. He said the councillors had…
THE International Organisation for Migration Zimbabwe (IOM) has called on the government to strengthen the country’s migration policies, amid the country’s worsening economic crisis and vulnerability to natural disasters fuelling migration. This emerged during a capacity building workshop held recently in the capital to guarantee and contribute towards the urgent establishment of a governance matrix…
THE still grieving widow of the revered late founding father of the MDC Morgan Tsvangirai, Elizabeth Macheka, says she misses the former prime minister of the country “terribly”, the Daily News on Sunday reports. Tsvangirai, the much-loved former trade unionist turned politician died in a South African hospital on Valentine’s Day in 2018, after a…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced that Zimbabwe would be importing maize from Uganda to avert a humanitarian crisis due to grain shortages and looming hunger. This comes as the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday that it could reduce its assistance if it fails to get US$100 million immediately. Zimbabwe is battling massive shortages…
