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A total of 70 suspected cholera cases and one death have been recorded in the Kariba District of Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland West Province since a new outbreak began in November. The Ministry of Health and Child Care in a statement, said as part of the response, 1,007 out of a targeted …

Botswana’s new president has told the BBC that he wants undocumented Zimbabweans to be legalised by granting them temporary work and residence permits. “They do jobs that would otherwise not get done,” Duma Boko told the BBC Africa Daily podcast before his historic inauguration on Friday. Botswana hosts the world’s …

THE Zimbabwean government will this month begin paying $20 million in compensation to foreign white and local Black farmers who lost their land during farm invasions at the turn of the century under former leader Robert Mugabe. The finance minister, Mthuli Ncube, announced on Friday that this initial payment is …

  THE Zimbabwean government announced on Tuesday that it has renewed its ban on alluvial and riverbed mining in an effort to curb ongoing environmental degradation. Although the ban was initially imposed in 2020, illegal mining activities have persisted, leading to severe ecological damage across the country. During a post-Cabinet …

IN a significant move, a Zimbabwean court has denied bail to opposition leader Jameson Timba and more than 70 others who were arrested last month for holding an unlawful gathering. This comes amid escalating tensions following the disputed August 2023 elections, which saw the ruling ZANU-PF party securing a parliamentary …

ZIMBABWE’S President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced that his country will soon join the BRICS economic bloc. The announcement came after Mnangagwa attended an economic forum in Russia, where he discussed Zimbabwe’s membership aspirations with key leaders of the bloc. BRICS, originally comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, recently expanded to …

David Hundeyin, a Nigerian independent journalist, has been detained in Harare Airport, Zimbabwe. Mr Hundeyin raised the alarm over his detention at the airport in a series of tweets on Wednesday night. “I landed in Zimbabwe earlier today, and I have been detained at Harare Airport inside a smelly locked …

A married man and his married lover have drawn the attention of community members after they got stuck in each other while having sex. According to a Local publications in Zimbabwe, the incident occurred in Norton. It was said that the woman and the man who have been secretly dating …

Close relatives and government officials flew out of Zimbabwe on Monday to collect the body of ex-president Robert Mugabe from Singapore where he died last week, his nephew said. Mugabe, a guerrilla leader who swept to power after Zimbabwe’s independence from Britain and went on to rule for 37 years …

Cash-strapped Zimbabwe announced Wednesday that it plans to build a $1 billion university to honour Robert Mugabe, the 93-year-old president accused of brutal repression and bringing the country to economic ruin. The university joins other facilities named after Mugabe including the government’s school of intelligence, a main street in the …