The Ministry of Health and Childcare has conducted COVID-19 Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) and Mobile vaccination campaign with IOM support and more than 500 people were vaccinated under the programme in Beitbridge.

COVID-19: Treasury cleared to procure five million vaccines

Nyasha Kunyiswa Government has cleared Treasury to procure five million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines as it accelerates the inoculation of its citizen against the deadly virus. Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services minister Monica Mutsvangwa revealed...
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Zimbabwe explores nuclear as alternative energy source

Davison Kaiyo HARARE – Zimbabwe is set to develop nuclear energy as an alternative source of energy as the country takes measures to mitigate against climate change, the Minister of Information and Publicity Monica Mutsvangwa...
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Govt tenders out ZISCO, again

Davison Kaiyo Government has re-opened bids for the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company, seeking investors who would be interested in funding the resuscitation of this former iron and steel producing company through debt or equity...
The COVID-19 pandemic has become a source factor of gender-based violence in Zimbabwe

COVID-19 brings new narrative to GBV

Herzel Mushayabasa/Sharon Chikwanha An increase in child marriages and teenage pregnancies during the global COVID-19 pandemic has brought another twist to gender-based violence, it has emerged. Speakers during a Convention on the Elimination of All Forms...
The Zim Achievers Awards were held successfully in Botswana although the flagship awards in the UK had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Zim Achievers UK nominations open

Herzel Mushayabasa Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) has opened the nomination platform for the 10th Annual edition of ZAA UK set to be held on 11 September 2021 in London. The nomination process is running on the...
Zimbabwe is losing its forests due to logging, fuelwood harvesting, unsustainable agricultural activities, mining, urbanization, timber production and forest fires

Zim losing 260 000ha of forests annually – Minister

Edson Mapani Zimbabwe is losing at least 260 000 hectares of forests annually amid concern from government which has called on for the curtailing of the destruction. Addressing the 2021 graduation ceremony at the Forest Industry...

Kariba hydro-electricity water allocation review set for June

Sydney Kawadza Water levels in Lake Kariba continue to rise increasing by about 25 percent in the past month, the Zambezi River Authority has said. The authority, however, indicated that a decision to review water allocated...
The National Assembly passed the controversial Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 2 and it is currently being debated in the Senate

Traditional leaders against lobola proposal

Nyasha Kunyiswa Zimbabwean traditional leaders have rejected a proposal on the removal of lobola payments as proposed in the Marriage Bill currently under debate in the Senate. Addressing the Senate during the Second Reading of the...
SADC officials have distance themselves from a leaked strategy paper calling for a 3,000 strong intervention force to defeat Islamist insurgents in Cabo Delgado in Mozambique

The gathering crisis in Mozambique

R.W. Johnson Things are moving fast in the jihadist insurgency in the Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique. Clearly aware that the multi-billion dollar gas investment by Total was reaching a critical new phase, the al-Shabaab insurgents...
Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister monica Mutsvangwa has announced that government would be guided by national interests when procuring COVID-19 vaccines

Govt reviews passport fees

Staff Writer Government has reviewed passport fees with Zimbabweans now expected to fork out at least US$60 for an ordinary passport. Addressing journalists in Harare after the 9th Cabinet meeting, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services minister...