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Zimbabwe’s population census has revealed a surge in unemployed citizens leaving the country under President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rule than during the many years in which late former President Robert Mugabe was in charge. According to the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) 2022 Population and Housing Census (PHC) preliminary results on …

Liz Truss took over as British prime minister on Tuesday, facing one of the most daunting set of challenges for an incoming leader in post-War history led by soaring energy bills, a looming recession and industrial strife. Truss, the fourth Conservative prime minister in six years, flew to the royal …

Transport and Infrastructural Development minister Felix Mhona has set new driver’s licence fees that will see new drivers paying between US$15 and US$30. In Statutory Instrument 158 of 2022, published on Friday, Mhona said: “A person applying in terms of section 8(2)(b) or (3) of the Act to an issuing …

Community Working Group on Health (CWGH), a pressure group that has been assisting the measles-hit province of Manicaland, has bemoaned the government’s lack of transparency in fighting the disease. The government declared the outbreak on 11 August 2022 after 80 children succumbed to the disease in Mutasa. Measles is a …

The UN Committee on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination has called on Zimbabwean authorities to lift restrictions they continue to impose on Gukurahundi commemorative events and also pave way for a truth-telling platform for survivors of the government sponsored atrocities. In findings and …

The Zimbabwe-European Union Article 8 political dialogue, whose third session was held in Harare last year, should continue as the two parties seek to broaden the discussions, outgoing EU ambassador to Zimbabwe Timo Olkkonen said yesterday. Mr Olkkonen was speaking after paying a farewell courtesy call on President Mnangagwa at …

Mines and Mining Development Minister, Winston Chitando faced the wrath of parliamentarians for maintaining laws, which continue exposing communities to losing land. The legislative framework, it is argued, risks reversing the gains of the land reform exercise. There are concerns by a section of stakeholders who believe that the bulk …

The Zimbabwean consulate in South Africa has finally broken its silence on the immigration debacle and xenophobic attacks by Limpopo Health Member of Executive Committee (MEC), Phophi Ramathuba, against a Zimbabwean national. Ramathuba sparked controversy last week after a video emerged of her chiding a Zimbabwean patient at a Limpopo …

The Pan-African Parliament along with the SA Medical Council, have echoed the growing list of organisations in slamming Limpopo Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Health, Dr Phophi Ramathuba, for her conduct. The MEC had embarrassed a bedridden patient from Zimbabwe at a hospital in Bela Bela, Limpopo, last …

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 …