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BRASILIA — The world’s leading economies, especially those in Europe, must work together to combat the current global financial crisis, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Monday. Speaking at an official luncheon marking the visit of Spanish King Juan Carlos I, Rousseff said failure to act was not an option while insisting the world could not expect emergingChina’s severe battle against cross-border drug trafficking
BEIJING — Law enforcement authorities yesterday warned of a “severe situation” in curbing cross-border drug smuggling, despite improved co-operation with the country’s neighbours. “Our country is fighting a tough battle against drugs due to continuous trafficking from foreign sources,” an unidentified official from the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement.Call for Sadc water management
Herald Reporter
GOVERNMENT has called for long-term co-operation between Sadc member states over the management and development of shared water resources in the region. Water Resources Management and Development Minister Samuel Siphepha Nkomo said
Zhanda to move motion on corruption at Reserve Bank
Herald Reporter
GOROMONZI North House of Assembly representative Cde Paddy Zhanda is expected to move a motion today calling on the House of Assembly to investigate alleged corruption at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. In his notice to move the motion in the
A village romance comes to town
Sekai NzenzaIt’s a late afternoon in Mbare, and I am visiting my cousins Piri and Esina. We are sitting on the small veranda of this two roomed house on a busy street. Not too far away from here is the Rufaro Stadium where Bob Marley played the “Peace has
Copac shortchanges disabled persons
Tsarai MugoniTHE Copac outreach process raised hopes of a better future for many marginalised groups in Zimbabwe as their concerns would for the first time be comprehensively included in the country’s supreme law. Little did they know that the consultations
Language, meaning in editorial cartoons
Knowledge MushohweEditorial cartooning is graphic communication that mostly employs drawn images. But the form of art’s most distinguishing characteristic is its ability to fuse image and text. Reading visual characteristics alone in an editorial cartoon is therefore not
sanctions removal call mischievious
Tichaona ZindogaThose following the debate around sanctions that the US imposed on Zimbabwe in 2001 should have noted that the call for the removal of the illegal embargo by Senator James Inhofe on May 25 is not simply another “fight” against the measures,
Editorial Comment: Banks must rely on mobilising savings and lending, not fees
Zimbabwe’s bankers have acquired some very bad habits over the last decade or so, abandoning their old business model of accumulating private savings, and paying interest on these, and then lending these savings out at a higher rate of interest, the gap between the two rates being their income to cover expenses, cost of bad loans, and some overheads.
Putin in Beijing for state visit
BEIJING — Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing yesterday morning, kicking off a state visit to China.
Invited by his counterpart Chinese President Hu Jintao, Putin is paying a state visit to China from June 5-7. He will also attend the 12th Meeting of the Council of Heads of Member States of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, to be held in Beijing