adminBotswana sells FMD vaccine to Egypt
GABORONE. — Botswana Vaccine Institute has for the first time sold Foot and Mouth Disease vaccine to Egypt where an outbreak of the disease has been reported. BVI General Manager Onkabetse Matlho told a media briefing yesterday that they were sending the first batch next Monday. He said they have received an order of 2 million doses, which they will be supplyingNigerian troops raid hideout over church attacks
KANO. — Nigerian troops killed a suspected Boko Haram militant yesterday during a pre-dawn raid in the city of Kano over weekend attacks against church services that left around 20 people dead. A military task force stormed a two-bedroom bungalow in the troubled northern city’s Bubbugaje district, two days after attackers armed with bombs and guns sowed carnageClinton heads to China
WASHINGTON. — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton headed to China yesterday as US officials raced to find a solution to a sensitive row over a top dissident reportedly holed up at the US embassy in Beijing. Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner had long planned to go to Beijing for the annual meeting between the world’s two largest economies that now is likely
Low female representation in Malawi’ new cabinet irks NGO
LILONGWE. — Malawi’s NGO Gender Co-ordination Network on Monday expressed concern over low female representation in President Joyce Banda’s cabinet released last Thursday in which out of 30 ministers and deputies, only eight are female.
Chairperson for the organisation Emma Kalia told local radio Zodiak that the low representation of female ministers in the new
May Day celebrated globally
JOHANNESBURG/PARIS. — A majority of countries observed International Workers Day yesterday as a public holiday.
Workers’ Day, also known as May Day, originated within the historical struggles of workers and their trade unions for solidarity between workers and people, and in their struggles to achieve fair employment standards. In a show of unity,
What are you going to do now?
John Pilger
You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that you live in Britain, the United States, Australia or the Middle East. Citizenship is effectively abolished. Turn on your computer and the US Department of Homeland Security’s National
BAZ shelves plans to import coins
Oliver Kazunga
THE Bankers Association of Zimbabwe has suspended plans to import coins from the United States
DeMbare won’t fire Pasuwa
Sports Reporter
BELEAGUERED Dynamos coach Callisto Pasuwa will be given time to clean up his mess before a decision on his future is made, an official at the humiliated Harare giants has said.
More women embark on self-projects
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Jephiter Tsamwi
Who said in this 21st century women’s roles do not go beyond the bedroom and the kitchen?
Hear from me an eyewitness of the wonderful developments on show at the just-ended ZITF. A lot of them have outgrown the restrictive roles that society has traditionally planted on them. Women have indeed transformed, breaking new ground, venturing into even those fields which for so long have been a preserve for men.
40 arrested for crime at ZITF40 arrested for crime at ZITF
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Chronicle Reporter
POLICE in Bulawayo arrested 40 people for different crimes, which include theft during the just ended Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF).