Zimbabwe’s official exchange rate stabilised Tuesday after three weeks that marked a rapid depreciation of the local currency largely blamed on currency manipulators in the market. Tuesday’s Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) foreign currency exchange auction closed with the Zimbabwe dollar officially trading at a weighted average of Z$6 926.57 …
Read More »Idris Elba Calls For Peaceful Election In Sierra Leone
British A-list actor Idris Elba British A-list actor Idris Elba, who also has Sierra Leonese citizenship and heritage, has called for a peaceful general election in Sierra Leone, which will take place on Saturday. “This election, please let it be peaceful,” he said in a message in pidgin English. He …
Read More »Russia Airstrikes Hits Kyiv, Other Ukrainian Cities Overnight
Russia attacked military and infrastructure targets across Ukraine early on Tuesday, including in the capital Kyiv and the western city of Lviv, Ukrainian officials said. Ukraine said it had shot down 32 of 35 Iranian-made Shahed drones launched from Russia’s Bryansk region and the Azov Sea. But a “critically important …
Read More »Harvard Morgue Manager Charged For Trade Stolen Body Parts
The morgue manager at America’s prestigious Harvard Medical School allegedly took dead body parts from his workplace without permission and then sold them, US prosecutors said on Wednesday. Cedric Lodge, 55, has been charged with trafficking in stolen human remains, the US attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania said …
Read More »Kasukuwere Pens Letter To Electorate: Running For Presidency As Independent Candidate
My Dear Comrades and Countrymen, I humbly write to you on the eve of the sitting of the nomination court to inform you that I have considered your plea for my return home to participate in our 2023 electoral processes. I accept the call to run for the Office of …
Read More »Four Firms Shortlisted In Race To Buy Zambia’s Mopani Copper Mines: Sources
China’s Zijin Mining (601899.SS) and Norinco Group, South Africa’s Sibanye Stillwater (SSWJ.J) and an investment vehicle owned by ex-Glencore officials have been shortlisted in the race to buy Zambia’s Mopani Copper Mines, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Zambia’s mines minister Paul Kabuswe said in February there …
Read More »Econet Trebles Data Tariffs
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, the country’s largest mobile network operator has with effect from today (Tuesday) hiked data bundles by up to 300 percent. “We are reviewing our ZWL data and SMEs bundle prices effective Tuesday, 20 June 2023,” it said in a brief notice. An 8 gig private WIFI data …
Read More »Sudanese Rebels Raid Zimbabwe Ambassador’s Home
Sudanese rebels ransacked the office and home of Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Sudan Hilda Mafudze and stole valuables belonging to the envoy. In a statement, Sudan’s foreign ministry condemned the attack and urged the international community to also speak against the ‘terrorist and criminal behaviour’. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns …
Read More »20 Chinese Firms Eye US$13bn Mapinga Industrial Park Project
About 20 Chinese investors with cumulative turnover of nearly US$40 billion have shown keen interest to invest in the proposed US$13 billion mine-to-energy industrial park in Mapinga, Mashonaland West Province. The development of the multi-billion dollar industrial park is firmly on course with the investors awaiting the Government to finalise …
Read More »Satanism Scare As Tatoos Appear & Disappear On Learner Left Crippled, Speechless
Scores of irate parents last Tuesday besieged Masasi High School in Marange baying for the blood of school authorities whom they accuse of initiating their children into Satanism. One of the students at the boarding institution, Vanessa Mangatu (18), dropped out of school in March last year after she became …
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