The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), the country’s premier Film Trade Association Body, has announced good news for cinema lovers on the occasion of the International Cinema Day. Opeyemi Ajayi, the chairman of the…
Zimbabwe: RBZ tightens reins on mobile money
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) introduced more measures yesterday affecting EcoCash agents as part of what is now seen as a policy to bring EcoCash agents into the formal banking system and ensure they…
Zimbabwe: Medical team hails local laboratory tests
The visiting Chinese anti-Covid-19 medical delegation has given the thumbs up to Zimbabwe’s National Microbiology Reference Laboratory in Harare. Chinese laboratory scientist Dr Zhang Di said the facility was at par with the laboratory he…
United Nations Says Zimbabwe Needs Assistance
The United Nations has said that Zimbabwe is facing an economic and humanitarian crisis so acute that international assistance is needed to subdue it. This comes when the citizenry in Zimbabwe is lamenting over the…
Zimbabwe: newly established political party foresees rise in…
The newly formed political party, The Patriotic Front (TPF), has urged the government to meticulously address the abduction case of three opposition MDC officials warning that tensions might escalate if the case is not addressed…
Politics: Zimbabwe’s main opposition accuses police of abducting…
Three Zimbabwe opposition youth leaders were beaten and sexually assaulted before being dumped on a road outside the capital Harare, their party said Friday. Joanna Mamombe, Netsai Marova and Cecilia Chimbiri claim they were abducted…
Zimbabwe female opposition politicians abducted, assaulted, abandoned
Three female opposition members were this week abducted leading to an outcry and diplomatic concerns raised by the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. On Friday (May 15) all three were found having been assaulted…
Zimbabwe Records ZERO New COVID-19 Cases On 10…
The Ministry of Health and Child Care didi not a single COVID-19 positive case on all 270 rapid screening tests and 279 PCR tests conducted in Harare on Sunday. Therefore, the total number of confirmed…
Zimbabwe: Harare Schools, Colleges Turned Into Coronavirus Quarantine…
Several schools and colleges in Harare have been turned into isolation centres to hold hundreds of Zimbabweans who are returning from neighbouring countries and further afield. Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Public Service, Labour…
Zimbabwean farmers start selling tobacco crop following coronavirus…
Zimbabwe farmers started selling their tobacco crop on Wednesday after the coronavirus outbreak delayed the opening of auctions, which provide vital foreign currency inflows, by more than a month. Tobacco is the second biggest earner…
More Zimbabwean immigrants head for Plumtree in Botswana
Hundreds of Zimbabweans living in Botswana are heading to the Plumtree border, saying the Covid-19 crisis has left them on the edge of starvation. The immigrants usually survive by doing odd jobs, but with Botswana…
Zimbabwe: Simbisa Brands Fires Contract Workers As COVID-19…
Zimbabwe's leading fast foods outlet Simbisa Brands has fired its contract workers in an attempt to cut costs as the effects of coronavirus lockdown take a toll on the national economy. The country is now…
Zimbabwe needs aid urgently to ease humanitarian crisis-IMF
The International Monetary Fund has warned that Zimbabwe needs urgent aid as the coronavirus exacerbates the impact a food shortage following the worst drought in nearly four decades. The southern African nation needs hundreds of…
Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa tests positive to Covid-19
Zimbabwean President Emerson Mnangagwa is said to have tested positive coronavirus highly placed sources said last night. A family spokesm last night said the 77 year old has now gone into treatment. Last week, Mnangagwa…
Coronavirus: Zimbabwe, Nigeria adopt cash-transfers to most vulnerable
The Zimbabwean government on Monday (March 30) reported that it had budgeted over $600 million to cover one million vulnerable households under a cash transfer programme for the next three months. The move is part…
Coronavirus rundown: New cases, flurry of restrictions, fear…
Zimbabwe’s public hospital doctors and nurses went on strike Wednesday over a lack of protective gear as the coronavirus begins to spread in a country whose health system has almost collapsed. It’s the latest blow…
Zimbabwe confirms first coronavirus case
Zimbabwe recorded its first confirmed case of coronavirus. Health minister Obadiah Moyo made the shock announcement on state television Friday. Moyo said the patient diagnosed with the dreaded disease lives in Victoria Falls and had…
Renewable Energy Policy Set for Launch in Zimbabwe
President Mnangagwa will today launch the National Renewable Energy and the Bio-fuels Policies of Zimbabwe in Harare, a move that will create a conducive environment for the development of renewable energy. The policies seek to…
Security: Fear of coup grips Zimbabwe President
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s security details went into overdrive during an event at the Zanu PF leader’s Kwekwe farm, going to the extent of using a drone in scouring for potential threats. Guests that sat with…
