Ecofarmer seeks to modernise agriculture

By Byron Mutingwende   Ecofarmer is working towards modernising agriculture by embracing technologies in order to improve production efficiency, achieve food security and profitability for farmers.   In a speech read on his behalf by Mr. Leonard Munamati – the Provincial Crop and Livestock Production Officer for Mashonaland East Province at the Ecofarmer Agri-tech expo…

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Giving scientific knowledge an indigenous face in developing countries

By Charles Dhewa The intersection between health and nutrition continues to be a grey area for ordinary people in many developing countries. There have not been serious efforts to develop appropriate ways of sharing nutrition knowledge with the majority. For instance, formal education systems have not done enough to move health and nutrition from being…

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Africa Internship Academy grooming continent’s next generational change agents

The organisation has contributed immensely towards reducing the rate of unemployment on the African continent Africa holds a very high rate of youth unemployment. In Ghana for instance, about 120,000 young people graduate from various institutions with about 10% getting employed after the first year of completion. Over 16% will never work in their lifetime,…

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UNWTO Agenda Receives Strong Support at Executive Council and Introduces Technology Forum

The World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) concluded its 109th Executive Council session in Manama, Bahrain yesterday, with Members showing appreciation both for progress made under the 2018 institutional priorities and for the Organisation’s financial stability and restructuring process. Today, UNWTO will also introduce a forum named ‘Tourism Tech Adventure: Big Data Solutions, bringing together the ‘ecosystem’ of…

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Rwanda’s First Lady joins PAP to support women’s fight against corruption

The First Lady of Rwanda, H.E Mrs Jeannette Kagame joined Pan-African Parliament Members to call for women’s role in fighting against corruption on the continent. This is in line with the theme of the 11th Pan-African Parliament Conference on Women’s Rights under the theme: “Pan-African Parliament fights against corruption” being hosted in Kigali, Rwanda. The two-day conference scheduled to conclude…

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Water rights for millions of African farmers threatened by law rooted in colonial times, study finds

Millions of African farmers still face legal restrictions on water access, dating back to colonial times, according to a study released this week. Researchers with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and Pegasys Institute reveal the obstacles that smallholders face, including potential legal penalties, due to laws that originated and led to “water grabbing” in…

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Zimnat helps local journalist sharpen business reporting skills

Zimnat is sponsoring a Zimbabwean financial journalist’s participation in the annual Sanlam Summer School for Financial Journalists being held in Hartebeespoort, which is outside Johannesburg in South Africa, next week. After inviting media houses to nominate a young business or financial reporter who might benefit from this summer school, Zimnat decided to sponsor Tatira Zwinoira,…

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CiZC engages SADC on deepening political and economic crisis bedevilling Zimbabwe.

The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition on October 30, 2018 met with the SADC Chairperson and President of Namibia, H.E Hage Geingob at State House in Windhoek, Namibia to brief him on the deepening political and economic crisis bedevilling Zimbabwe. The meeting, came upon a request by the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition and a delegation from…

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All Set for Women in Business in the Education Sector Awards Ceremony

KinderCare Zimbabwe will host the inaugural Annual conference and Awards ceremony for “Women in Business in the Education Sector (Early Childhood Development)”, under the theme, “Advancing Women’s Participation in Business- change agents of a community”. This will be held at Cresta Jameson, Harare from 1 to 2 November 2018. “We are honoured to have in our…

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Zim civil society meets SADC chair, Namibian President Heingob

By ZimRights Information Department   Windhoek, Namibia – A joint delegation of civil society leaders from Zimbabwe and civil society solidarity partners from the Southern African region, yesterday, met Southern African Development Community (SADC) chairperson and Namibian president, H.E Hage Geingob, in Windhoek, Namibia. Members of the delegation drawn from the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition…

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LEDRIZ publication focuses on socio-economic rights in Zimbabwe

By Byron Mutingwende   The Labour and Economic Development Research Institute of Zimbabwe
 (LEDRIZ) has produced a publication focusing on the importance of upholding socio-economic rights of the citizens.   Dr. Prosper Chitambara, while introducing the publication titled “Socio-economic rights in Zimbabwe:
A Situational Analysis 1980–2018 “ to journalists in Harare on 30 October 2018, said…

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MSF leaves a big footprint in Zimbabwe’s cholera fight

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders’ response to Zimbabwe’s second largest cholera outbreak is bearing a positive impact towards addressing the epidemic. Zimbabwe has been grappling with cholera since 12 September 2018 when the outbreak was officially declared an emergency. This is the second largest cholera outbreak the country has seen after the devastating epidemic that…

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Cuba urges Zimbabwe to remain firm and resolute in its quest for development

By Byron Mutingwende Cuba’s Ambassador, Her Excellence Carmelina Ramirez Rodriguez has said her country enjoys a long-standing relationship with Zimbabwe and urged the Southern African country to remain resolute as it works towards development.   In an exclusive interview with Spiked Online Media, Ambassador Rodriguez said the relationship between the two countries that date back…

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Zimbabwe celebrates cordial relations with Turkey

By Byron Mutingwende Zimbabwe enjoys cordial relations with Turkey with common interests between the two nations increasingly pivoted on economic cooperation. In his address at the Republic of Turkey’s National Day reception held in Harare on 29 October 2018, Ambassador Chitsaka Chipaziwa from Zimbabwe’s ministry of foreign affairs congratulated Turkey on its 95th Anniversary of…

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Southern Africa explores solutions to migration challenges

By Byron Mutingwende   Southern African countries are meeting in Pretoria to share notes on the current migration management project in a bid to find solutions to the complexity of the issue affecting the regional economic community.   In his address during the stakeholders meeting, Dr. Joni Musabayana, the Director of the Decent Work Team…

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Man detained over Mnangagwa portrait

Zimbabwean authorities have stepped up their crackdown against perceived opponents of President Emmerson Mnangagwa after arresting and charging a Bulawayo man with undermining authority of or insulting the ZANU PF party leader. The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) reported that Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers on Friday 26 October 2018 arrested Wisdom Mkwananzi and…

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Vaya Lift ride service to help avert Zimbabwe’s fuel crisis

Zimbabwean companies struggling with getting their staff to work or going about their daily business requiring transport amid the current fuel crisis in Zimbabwe will be able to get round the challenge by using the new Vaya Lift ride service launched by Econet’s Cassava On Demand in Harare on Thursday.   The ride hailing service,…

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PHD clean-up campaign a positive step in promoting tourism: Mupfumira

The timely intervention to clean up the City of Harare by the Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries led by Prophet Walter Magaya contributes to the cleanliness of the environment and promotes tourism, Priscah Mupfumira the Minister of Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry has said. “The responsibility for a clean, safe and healthy environment is…

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Address political, social and economic challenges: Prophet Acelimo Magaya

By Miriam Zvomuya and Gideon Madzikatidze The Zimbabwe Divine Destiny Executive Director, Bishop Ancelimo Magaya has urged the government of Zimbabwe to urgently arrest socio-economic and political decay. The clergyman said it was clear the government was incapacitated and performing worse than the previous Mugabe administration. Speaking at a press conference in Harare yesterday, Bishop…

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Oxfam Zimbabwe’s CARL project seeks to empower rural women

By Michael Mashiri Oxfam Zimbabwe has launched a programme called Climate Adaptation for Rural Livelihoods (CARL), which is an initiative designed to end poverty in rural areas. The project endeavours to make sure that rural women increase their income and economic power in sustainable agricultural crop supply chains such as groundnuts, pea beans, cattle and…

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Transformation of African trade is task for all African financial institutions: Afreximbank

The transformation of trade in Africa is a task that all African financial institutions must collectively pursue as major stakeholders in the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) in its quest to facilitate African trade, Amr Kamel, Afreximbank Executive Vice President, Business Development and Corporate Banking, said in Dar Es Salam on Thursday. Speaking during a roadshow organized…

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Harare City Council celebrates the induction certification of graduate trainees

BY Miriam Zvomuya The Harare City Council in conjunction with the Zimbabwe Open University, Faculty of Commerce and Law gave certificates to 77 graduates who have successfully gone under a five-week course. The certification ceremony was held yesterday at the Rainbow Towers Hotel. The idea of graduate trainee came as a way of supporting the…

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Cassava unveils much anticipated Vaya Lift service

Rolls out convenient, App-based Uber-type transport service Embarks on massive driver recruitment campaign Cassava On Demand Services has launched the much-anticipated ‘Vaya Lift’ ride service, a safe, convenient and affordable passenger transportation service that can be easily booked from anywhere, at any time, via the convenience of a mobile application (App). Speaking at the launch…

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Stakeholder collaboration on track towards eliminating cholera

By Byron Mutingwende Stakeholder collaborative efforts are on the right track towards the elimination of cholera and typhoid. Speaking during the on-going media training workshop on cholera reporting in Mazowe, Dr Portia Manangazira, the Director of Epidemiology and Disease Control in the Ministry of Health and Child Care hailed stakeholder collaboration towards the elimination of…

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ITC, SDF launch Mini-Loans Scheme for young Gambian entrepreneurs

Access to finance initiative to offer loan products youth-led micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the Gambia. The International Trade Centre’s (ITC) Gambia Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) and the Social Development Fund (SDF), a non-profit organisation, yesterday announced the launch of the Mini-Loans Scheme, which will increase access to finance for youth-led micro,…

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Zimbabwe one of Africa’s best destinations in 2019

Zimbabwe has been described as one of Africa’s safest destinations to visit in 2019 because its tourism has excited travel editors, researchers, locals and influencers.   Because of that, according to Times Live, it made it to Lonely Planet’s list of Best Countries to visit in 2019. The publication said Zimbabwe also made the list,…

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Chief Fortune Charumbira elected Vice President of PAP

Honourable Senator Chief Fortune Charumbira has been elected Vice President of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) representing Southern Africa. “The road has been long. I won against Hon  Professor Lungwangwa who is the former Minister of Higher Education in Zambia in October last year. In May this year, I won against Dr. Penyo Butale of Botswana….

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MSF bemoans high prices of TB drugs

People suffering from drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) continue to be deprived of today’s best-possible treatment in part because of high drug prices, according to a new report — DR-TB Drugs Under the Microscope — released by Doctors Without Borders ( MSF) at the 49th Union World Conference on Lung Health in The Hague. MSF is now calling on…

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Very soon Zimbabwean problems will be over: Bishop Tinashe Mazangwa

By Byron Mutingwende Charismatic South-African based prophet and preacher, Bishop Tinashe Mazangwa has assured the nation that the Zimbabwean problems will be a thing of the past very soon. Zimbabweans are enduring persistent economic hardships that were worsened by the recent fiscal and monetary policy statements by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube and Reserve Bank Governor…

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Spatial Data the Focus of UNWTO Sustainable Tourism Observatories Meeting

The World Tourism Organisation’s (UNWTO) International Network of Sustainable Tourism Observatories (INSTO) concluded its global annual meeting yesterday in Madrid, welcoming observatories and other tourism stakeholders to share experiences of measuring and monitoring the impact tourism has on destinations, and explore the opportunities provided to tourism by innovation in location services. With a revamped structure…

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