News Headlines
By Anna Chibamu NATIONAL Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda has denied claims he reported social media activist Simba Chikanza to Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director general Isaac Moyo for specification after their clash in Serbia last month. UK, based Chikanza runs an online platform called Zim-Eye and last month confronted...
By Tonderai Saharo A WAR veterans’ provincial leader in Masvingo is in trouble...
By Anna Chibamu TOP MDC politician and MP, Tendai Biti has warned Finance...
By Thandiwe Garusa GOVERNMENT says it is in the process of organising ZUPCO...
By Leopold Munhende HEALTH Minister Obadiah Moyo says he was prepared – if...
By Mary Taruvinga THE Supreme Court has reserved a judgement in a case...
Zimbabwe
By Own Correspondent WHEN several local authorities in Zimbabwe needed new machinery to build and maintain dirt and gravel roads, the National Road Authority issued a tender for road graders. The contract was issued to a Zimbabwean firm, but instead of road graders, the Chinese supplier delivered snow graders....
By Robert Tapfumaneyi NATIONAL Social Security Authority (NSSA) has increased the minimum monthly...
Matabeleland North Correspondent FIVE of the 15 Form Six pupils at Gebhuza Secondary...
By Leopold Munhende PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has fired an additional 75 doctors...
By Bulawayo Correspondent ACCOUNT holders with some local bank branches in Bulawayo Tuesday...
By Robert Tapfumaneyi DESPITE widespread popular support for gender equality, African women are...
Africa
AFP Sixty-seven people arrested by police in a Kampala bar popular with gays were charged with “common nuisance” on Tuesday, but rights activists said it was a bid to intimidate the LGBT community. The police raided the Ram Bar in the heart of the Ugandan capital on Sunday and...
BBC In a major step in the fight against Ebola, the World Health...
BBC Scores of Kenyan students and teachers have been hospitalised after a dangerous...
Fin24 New bank notes and coins finally hit the streets of Zimbabwe on...
Aljazeera Zimbabwe has suspended imports of livestock and meat from South Africa for...
BBC Zimbabwe’s central bank is due to begin circulating new banknotes on Monday,...
World
AFP Pro-democracy protesters Wednesday stepped up a “blossom everywhere” campaign of road blocks and vandalism across Hong Kong that has crippled the international financial hub this week and ignited some of the worst violence in five months of unrest. The new phase in the crisis, which has forced schools...
AFP Bushfires raging across eastern Australia on Tuesday singed the Sydney suburbs, where...
AP Australia’s most populous state declared a state of emergency on Monday due...
AFP Eight people died and more than two million others spent a night...
BBC A policeman has shot a protester during another day of violent demonstrations...
AFP Turkish forces in northern Syria have detained a sister of Abu Bakr...
Health & Community
BBC In a major step in the fight against Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the world’s first ever vaccine against Ebola. The drug, called Ervebo and manufactured by MERCK pharmaceuticals, was being used in an experimental phase in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ‘ But now...
By Mashonaland East Correspondent A Mudzi gold panner is battling for life in...
By Bulawayo Correspondent GOVERNMENT has deployed student doctors to help attend to patients...
Bloomberg About half of the Zimbabwe’s 14 million people lack reliable access to...
AP The World Health Organization says more than 7 million cases of malaria...
News24 This year about 12 million of the world’s children will be married...
Science & Tech
By Technomag AMIDST the economic crisis, service providers have been feeling the pinch and they have been increasing prices so as to stay in business. With effect from August 9 the TelOne home broadband tariffs have been reviewed upwards by 36%. This comes after another upward price review which...
By Anna Chibamu INFRASTRUCTURE Investments in the fixed and mobile companies have greatly...
By Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO: Samsung unveiled a highly anticipated smartphone with a...
By Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG: The principal of a prestigious school near St....
By Xinhua PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will on Wednesday officiate at an ICT convention...
By AFP With its colourful hammocks and table tennis table, a new tech...
Travel
By AFP Singapore Airlines insisted Thursday that cameras on its planes’ entertainment systems had been disabled after an outcry online from worried passengers who spotted the tiny lenses peering at them. Travellers took to Twitter and other social media to raise the alarm over the cameras at the bottom...
By AFP HARARE: The departure of Robert Mugabe has finally brought some good...
By AFP A sick eight-year-old triggered a cholera scare onboard a flight from...
By Staff Reporter UK-based tour operator, Wilderness Safaris, is set to return to...
By thetimes.co.uk My hols: Jon Snow My partner is from Zimbabwe and we...
By AFP After nearly two decades in the doldrums, Zimbabwe’s tourism sector is...
