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Prisons in Zimbabwe are failing to meet the dietary scale for children staying with their incarcerated mothers contrary to the prison policy and procedures, a report compiled by a Senate Thematic Committee on Gender and Development revealed. In some cases, prison officers made some contributions to assist the children with …

UNITED Kingdom based conservationist Nick Holmes will be going into the last lap of his 800+km Walk4life journey next week on September 4 as he approaches the Zambian side of the border. The journey which started, on World Ranger Day, at the Kariba dam wall on July 31 last month …

Some Harare suburbs have gone for almost a month with no running water, raising fears of a health crisis in a city once battered by a cholera disaster that killed thousands. Mayor Jacob Mafume, in past comments over the city’s perennial water woes, revealed the local authority was battling acute …

Government has suspended the mandatory wearing of face masks in open public spaces after the country has registered a continuous decline in new Covid-19 infections. The easing of the Covid-19 restriction, which takes immediate effect, was announced at a post-cabinet media briefing in Harare on Tuesday by Information Minister Monica …

Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was admitted to a hospital in Harare on Thursday for what sources described as a “long-planned procedure”. The 65-year-old retired army general arrived at the Trauma Centre in Borrowdale just before 3PM in a six-vehicle convoy flashing blue lights, with sirens turned off. Chiwenga walked into …

HEALTH experts have warned government to be on high alert following the recent World Health Organisation (WHO) announcement of heightened cases of monkeypox globally as the local public health system is in intensive care. Monkeypox is an infection caused by a virus in the same family as the smallpox virus. …

The UK could have its hottest day on record this week, with temperatures forecast to hit up to 41C (106F). The Met Office has issued a red extreme heat warning on Monday and Tuesday in much of England, from London and the south-east up to York and Manchester. The current …

Bindura Bureau Drug abuse and use of intoxicating substances have been identified as a major contributor to the sudden increase in Human-Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence statistics among youths. Following the trend, Health scientists and HIV /AIDS programmers in the country have embarked on a research programme in five of Zimbabwe’s …

Zimbabwe is now grounded, faced with a dying healthcare system and a collapsed education sector as evidenced by the on-going job action and dilapidated infrastructure reminiscence of the 2006-2008 situation, ex-cabinet ministers have said. The rot in the health delivery system and the education sector came out in the open …

South Africa on Wednesday recorded its first ever monkeypox case in what could be a source of real concern to Zimbabwe many of whose nationals live and work in the neighbouring country while maintaining close physical ties with families back home. According to South African health authorities, the case was …