Ghana: Hundreds accused of witchcraft urgently need protection and reparation

The Ghanaian authorities have failed to protect and fulfill the human rights of hundreds of victims of witchcraft accusations and ritual attacks that forced them to flee their communities fearing for their lives, said Amnesty International in a new report.   “Branded for life: How witchcraft accusations lead to human rights violations of hundreds of…

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Empowering Rural Livelihoods: The Chomudondo Family’s Success Story

Writes Violet Mashonga In the heart of Mhondoro Mubaira, Ward 5, the Chomudondo family has been making waves with their innovative farming and poultry projects. This elderly couple has defied conventional expectations, showcasing that age is no barrier to achieving success. Their determination and hard work have not only improved their own lives but also…

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The Private Voluntary Organisations Amendment Act, 2025: Examining Its Effects on NGOs in Zimbabwe

Dr. Babra Ontibile Bhebe – Executive Director, Election Resource Centre, Yale World Fellow| Doctor of Laws (LLD)   This article provides a brief analysis of the newly enacted Private Voluntary Organisations Amendment Act, 2025, an Act by the Parliament and the President of Zimbabwe which has been introduced to amend the present Private Voluntary Organisation…

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Gandiwa Village in Mhondoro Mubaira Hosts Successful Field Day at Mandizvidza Homestead

Writes Violet Mashonga   Gandiwa Village in Mhondoro Mubaira recently hosted a successful field day at the Mandizvidza homestead, attracting numerous organizations and companies. The event, held in Ward 5 of Chief Rwizi’s area, showcased the growing interest in the farming industry. Guest of honor, Mrs. Ndoro, the Provincial Deputy Director of Agritex, expressed her…

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African leaders press for fast implementation of the SDGs to drive jobs and inclusive growth

The Eleventh Session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD-11) was held in Kampala, Uganda, with a powerful call to action on bold leadership and decisive policies that drive jobs, inclusive growth, science and evidence-based solutions.   President Kaguta Yoweri Museveni, host of the ARFSD-11, stressed the need for Africa to stop exporting…

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Parliamentarians champion social development and justice at 150th IPU Assembly

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) hosted by the Parliament of Uzbekistan successfully concluded its 150th Assembly in Tashkent. This landmark Assembly attracted 1400 delegates, including 740 Members of Parliament and IPU Associate Members from 130 countries.   The presence of 100 Speakers and Deputy Speakers of Parliament underscored the increasing recognition of Parliamentary Diplomacy as a…

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Phase 1 of New Mbare Musika accommodates 1,628 traders: President Mnangagwa

The first phase of the completed Mbare Traders Market (Musika) paves the way for 1,628 traders to begin operations in a decent workspace, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.   President Mnangagwa said this while officially opening the Mbare Traders Market Development Project Phase 1 and the commissioning of Phase 2 of the project in Harare…

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150th IPU Plenary Session tackles theme for the year

To kick-start the General Debate on the theme of the Assembly entitled “Parliamentary Action for Social Development and Justice”, held a special segment with keynote speakers. In her address on this occasion Rt. Hon. Dr. Tulia Ackson, President of the IPU, identified three key aspects of social development, namely, fighting poverty, ensuring decent livelihoods, and…

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Chief Charumbira officially opens Session of the National Assembly of Benin

The Pan African Parliament (PAP) President, HE Chief Fortune Charumbira, officially opened the National Assembly of Benin on 10 April 2025 in Porto Novo, Benin.   He thanked the Speaker of the National Assembly of Benin, Hon. Gbehounou Louis Vlavonou, for extending an invitation to him to officially open the Session of the National Assembly…

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UN Efficiency Agenda Takes Root in Zimbabwe: Integrate, Innovate and Transform for Impact Together

Writes Sirak Gebrehiwot 10 April 2025, Harare – The United Nations Operations Management Team (OMT) held a strategic planning meeting under the theme “Integrated, Innovate, and Transform for Impact Together” in Harare from 8 to 9 April 2025. The meeting marked an essential assessment of the progress made towards realizing efficiency results, documenting valuable lessons…

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Make adequate security provisions for upcoming Easter holidays: Safeguard

Holidays such as the upcoming Independence Day and Easter holidays often bring about increased travel, shopping, and festivities. However, holidays also attract potential risks such as break-ins and thefts, especially with the continued rise in crime being recorded.   “The holiday season is prime time for criminals to target occupied and unoccupied homes and businesses,”…

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Government must ensure citizens get quality health services: CWGH

The Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) on World Health Day (WHD) held under the theme “Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures”, called on the government to ensure that all citizens get quality health services, when and where they need them, without facing financial hardships.   In Zimbabwe since 2013, health is a Constitutional right, as well…

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City’s recruitment of a substantive finance director pertinent: Harare Residents Trust

The Harare Residents’ Trust (HRT) is alarmed and shocked at the reluctance of some powerful councillors and bureaucrats at Town House to finalise the recruitment of a substantive finance director. The process was reportedly finalised in February 2025, tabled and debated in full council, but unfortunately referred back to the Human Resources and General Purposes…

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Old Mutual’s Commitment to Community Development Shines at ICAZ Charity Golf Tournament

Old Mutual is proud to continue its longstanding role as the title sponsor of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe (ICAZ) Charity Golf Tournament, held on April 4, 2025. For over 12 years, this partnership has brought together golfing enthusiasts and industry leaders, all united in the common goal of supporting vital educational initiatives…

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Mozambique, country with plenty water, but still faces water crisis

Writes Charles Mangwiro Maputo (Mozambique) – Climate change is undoubtedly the primary cause of water insecurity in Mozambique, a country with a history of cyclical flooding during the rainy season. Mozambique also receives a lot of flood water from its neighbors, namely South Africa, Eswatini, Malawi, and Zimbabwe but still faces a crisis for safe…

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Education minister commissions ECD Block at Kuredza Primary School

Writes Chimeno Azriel   The Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Hon Dr. Torerai Moyo commissioned the Kuredza Government Technical Primary School’s Early Childhood Development (ECD) block, three specialist rooms, led a field day, and awarded the school the first prize in commercial ventures in Kadoma on Monday.   The significant event marked a milestone…

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2025 International Summit on Genome Editing to be held in US

The summit to be held in Cambridge, MA from May 21-23 will focus on how biotechnologies impact the meaning of being human    The Global Observatory for Genome Editing International Summit will be held from May 21-23, 2025 in Cambridge, MA. The Summit foregrounds questions about biotechnologies that are poised to alter the meaning of being human….

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Rising Teenage Pregnancies in Manicaland: A National Crisis That Demands Urgent Action

Labour Economists and Afrikan Democrats (LEAD) are deeply concerned and outraged by the latest statistics reported by the National AIDS Council (NAC), which revealed that 13,353 teenage girls were impregnated in Manicaland Province in 2024.   Linda Masarira, the President of LEAD, said even more alarming is the fact that 161 girls dropped out of…

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NetOne working for a cleaner, greener, and healthier urban environment

NetOne, in collaboration with the City of Harare, led a vibrant clean-up campaign in the heart of Harare’s Central Business District (CBD), aimed at promoting a cleaner, greener, and healthier urban environment.   The initiative, held on the first Friday of the month in line with the national clean-up programme, brought together NetOne staff, City…

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The Love Zimbabwe Festival driving unity and peace

The Love Zimbabwe Festival in Chinhoyi, Mashonaland West Province which kicked off in February 2025 is set to conclude on April 6, 2025, and aims to promote unity and collective responsibility in building a prosperous Zimbabwe. Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution for the province, Hon. Marian Chombo, attended a high-profile luncheon organized…

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Social Protection System Strengthening Programme to support vulnerable citizens

The launch of the Social Protection System Strengthening Programme is a key priority of the Government of Zimbabwe to support vulnerable citizens. This is a positive move towards a prosperous and empowered upper-middle-income society by 2030 and is a testament to the commitment to investing in social protection to support vulnerable citizens, from the womb…

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Symposium advances technologies to improve health outcomes for Zimbabweans

A Leadership in Health Technology Symposium held in Harare today (29 March 2025 ), organized by Siza Mukwedini and Kuda Makuzwa of Matamba Film Labs was meant to improve health outcomes for Zimbabwe.   In her remarks at the workshop, Pamela Tremont, the United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe, commended the support of the U.S. President’s…

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Southern Africa Commemorates the Proclamation of the DPCW with a Call for Institutionalising Peace

Pretoria, South Africa – March 25, 2025 – The 9th Annual Commemoration of the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW) took place at Brooklyn Lodge, Pretoria, bringing together high-level officials, ambassadors, representatives from NGOs and IGOs, and members of civil society.   The event, hosted by Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light…

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Upgraded UZ laboratory to improve polio surveillance and diagnostics

The commissioning of the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Polio Laboratory has been described as a landmark achievement in the collective journey toward a polio-free world, emanating from the envisaged improvement in disease surveillance and diagnostics.   This state-of-the-art facility stands as a testament to the unwavering commitment of Zimbabwe, in collaboration with global partners like…

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MP initiates ‘Pad up Kadoma’ initiative to keep girls in school

Writes Chimeno Azriel   In a bid to support the educational and menstrual health needs of girl children in his constituency, Kadoma Central Member of Parliament has launched the ‘Pad Up Kadoma’ initiative to collect and distribute sanitary pads to 20 primary and secondary schools in the city, targeting girls who frequently miss lessons due…

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Integrated development planning a hallmark for ZUNSDCF success: UN’s Edward Kallon

The success of the Zimbabwe United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (ZUNSDCF) is hinged on integrated development planning, His Excellency Mr. Edward Kallon, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator has said.   He made the remarks at the 2022-2026 Zimbabwe UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework Annual Steering Committee Meeting for 2024 on Wednesday 26 March…

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Competition on wetlands protection targets school children

Writes Edgar Gweshe Birdlife Zimbabwe (BLZ), in collaboration with the Harare Wetlands Trust (HWT) and the Netherlands Embassy in Zimbabwe, has launched an art and essay competition aimed at raising awareness on wetlands protection. The competition, being held under the theme, “Protecting Wetlands for Our Common Future” is open to primary and secondary school students….

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ZUNSDCF driving efforts towards sustainable development in Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwe United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (ZUNSDCF) serves as a critical mechanism for providing strategic direction and policy oversight to the institutional arrangement to drive efforts towards sustainable development in Zimbabwe.   This came to the fore in the keynote address by the Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet given by Dr….

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Stakeholders hail consultative process in City of Harare Environment and Climate Policy formulation

Stakeholders have said the process of coming up with the City of Harare’s Environment and Climate Policy has been very inclusive in several respects.   This emerged last week at a multi-stakeholder dialogue forum that brought together representatives from the Government, Local Authorities within the Harare metropolitan area, the Private Sector, and Civil Society to…

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Water and sanitation spur Africa’s development aspirations

Water and sanitation play an important role in the pursuit of Africa’s development aspirations given their direct bearing on all basic social and economic indicators, Hon Vangelis Haritatos, the Deputy Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development has said.   He made the remarks during the official opening of the Southern Africa Sub-regional…

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Turning Drought into Opportunity: One Farmer’s Innovation in Mwenezi

In the drought-prone district of Mwenezi, Zimbabwe, farmers battle unpredictable rainfall and dwindling agricultural yields. Climate change has made traditional farming methods unreliable, forcing smallholder farmers to seek new solutions. For Chizivano Shava, a lead farmer in the Climate Resilient Livelihoods (CRL) project, innovation is not just an option, it’s a necessity.   Supported by…

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AMCOW workshop spotlights water resources development, management and planning in Africa

The African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) is holding a three-day workshop in Harare to promote the effective management of the continent’s water resources and provision of water supply services.   In his address during the first day of the workshop today, Engineer Tinayeshe Mutazu, the Chief Director of Water Resources, Irrigation Development, and National…

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Mashonaland East war veterans honoured through Presidential Empowerment Schemes

President Emmerson Dambudzo (ED) Mnangagwa yesterday in Murehwa, through Dr. Paul Tungwarara, the Presidential Investment Advisor, reaffirmed the sacred debt to freedom fighters in Mashonaland East Province by providing war veterans with the Presidential War Veterans Fund, Borehole Drilling, and Housing Schemes.   The event happened in Murehwa Centre on 22 March 2025 and was…

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Stakeholders share proposals for City of Harare Environment and Climate Policy

A multi-stakeholder collaborative dialogue is contributing to the development of the City of Harare Environment and Climate Policy that addresses the confluence of climate change and environmental sustainability and hence contributes towards the city’s sunshine status.   In his welcome remarks at the workshop in Harare today, Eng Phakamile Mabhena Moyo, the City of Harare’s…

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Brondesbury Park Hotel Nyanga hails support of local tourists

The Brondesbury Park Hotel Nyanga is satisfied with the support that it is getting from domestic tourists. Nyasha Makanza, the hotel’s general manager said local tourists are providing a stable income stream and are also supporting local economies. “As a player in the hospital industry, we are satisfied with the support that we are getting…

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US$2 million Presidential Youth Empowerment Revolving Fund launched

President Mnangagwa today launched a US$2 million Presidential Youth Empowerment Revolving Fund that is earmarked to fund youth income-generating projects.   HE Mnangagwa also announced the launch of a US$5 million Presidential Youth Mining Equipment Scheme for young artisanal miners and urged beneficiaries to exercise high levels of morality and ethical consideration.   “The schemes…

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Cimas partners Smilestar in oral healthcare for remote and underserved communities

Founder of Smilestar, a United Kingdom (UK)-based dental organisation, Dr. Mitesh Badiani, has commended their partnership with Cimas Health Group for successfully achieving its goals of providing free access to oral healthcare to remote and underserved communities in Matabeleland North province.   Smilestar, a charity dental organisation partnered with Cimas Health Group, the country’s longest-established…

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CSW69: WCoZ reports progress towards women empowerment in Zimbawe

NEW YORK, USA – The Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoz) has commended inroads towards women’s empowerment at the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) taking place from 10 to 21 March 2025 in New York, United States of America (USA).   Speaking during a side event yesterday titled “Beijing+30: Breaking…

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Palestine envoy condemns Israel’s attack on Palestinian women

Writes Lloyd Rabaya   The Palestinian Ambassador to Zimbabwe Dr. Tamer Almassri has condemned the continued offensives on Palestinian women and girls by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. According to Almassri, Palestinian women are subject to unimaginable suffering, and deprivation of fundamental rights, leading them to abandon their homes as…

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Mozambican firms move to fight terrorism through youth employment

The end of a post-independence civil war in Mozambique brought a lot of optimism among the citizens but almost three decades later, real progress continues to elude the vast resource-rich southern African country that continues lurching from one crisis to another. Writes Charles Mangwiro Mozambique is in the throes of a fresh insurgency that has…

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Peace and security topical at SADC-EU Ministerial Partnership Dialogue

One of the most topical issues on the agenda of the Southern African Development Community-European Union (SADC-EU) Ministerial Partnership Dialogue in Harare, Zimbabwe today is peace and security.   In his opening remarks, Zimbbabwe’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Hon. Prof. Dr. Amon Murwira, and Chairperson of the SADC Council of Ministers said…

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Address prevalence of fraudulent academic qualifications: Government urged

Writes Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi   Maynard Kudakwashe Manyowa has been at the forefront of exposing a deeply troubling issue in Zimbabwe – government officials and public figures who possess fake academic qualifications. This campaign, which has gained significant attention, highlights the alarming prevalence of fraudulent academic credentials among some of the nation’s leaders. While Manyowa’s…

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