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ACCRA — Grieving family members gathered at a morgue in Ghana’s capital Accra yesterday after a cargo plane overshot an airport runway and crashed into a passenger bus, killing at least 10 people.The four crew members from the Boeing 727 Allied Air cargo plane survived Saturday night’s accident,
15 killed in Nigerian church attack
KANO — At least 15 people were killed and dozens wounded yesterday when a suicide car bomber drove into a Nigerian church compound and detonated his explosives as worshippers left an early morning service. The bomber targeted the Living Faith church, in a neighbourhood near the airport in Bauchi, theRussia-China relations at ‘unprecedented high’
MOSCOW — Relations between Russia and China have reached unprecedented high levels, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says in an interview ahead of President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming visit to China. Top leaders of the two countries are expected to discuss the expansion of bilateral
Winnie Mandela in hospital
JOHANNESBURG — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of South Africa’s first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela, has been hospitalised and is due to undergo surgery for a broken wrist, her daughter said on Saturday. “Mrs Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is in hospital with a broken right wrist
Tobacco growers earn US$362m
Agriculture ReporterTOBACCO growers have earned US$362 million from the sale of 96,3 million kilogrammes of the golden leaf as deliveries to the auction floors continue to decline. Auction floors are now receiving an average of
Africa Unity Square to be redesigned
Herald ReporterTHE Africa Unity Square will soon be re-designed to change its format from being a symbol and remnant of British colonialism, to reflecting the aspirations of Ziumbabweans. A new structure depicting the role
Indiscriminate tree cutting condemned
Herald Reporter
Zimbabwe National Army Commander Lieutenant General Phillip Sibanda has ordered troops to stop the indiscriminate cutting down of trees during military training exercises. He said this while addressing
CIO operative arrested for possessing ivory
Senior Reporter
A Central Intelligence Organisation operative was arrested last week together with three accomplices for illegally possessing two elephant tusks. The four illegal ivory dealers were arrested in Eastlea, Harare
MDC-T’s Magura buried
Herald Reporter
AN MDC-T activist, Cephas Magura, killed last week in a politically-motivated attack in Mudzi District, was buried in an emotional send-off at his rural home yesterday. Magura (60) died as a result of severe
Chiredzi cholera declared national priority
Government has declared the cholera outbreak reported in Chiredzi a national priority, amid fears of a repeat of the 2008 epidemic which killed over 4 000 people ountrywide, an official has said. Director Epidemiology and Disease Control in the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare, Dr Portia Manangazira,