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Oliver Kazunga Senior Business Reporter ALL is set for the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce annual congress where discussions on the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (Zim-Asset) are expected…
‘Exorbitant fares discourage growth of AirZim’
Patrick Chitumba in Victoria Falls Senior Reporter TOURISM and Hospitality Minister Engineer Walter Mzembi has castigated Air Zimbabwe for charging exorbitant fares which discourage growth of the airline as well…
Zim, Zambia fight over fishing rights
While Zimbabwe and Zambia squabble over fishing rights in the world’s biggest dam, an invasion of Australian crayfish and Nile tilapia is threatening to wreak havoc with Lake Kariba’s indigenous…
At least 91 kidnapped from Nigerian villages
Maiduguri — Witnesses say Islamic extremists have abducted 60 more girls and women and 31 boys from villages in northeast Nigeria. Security forces denied the kidnappings. Nigeria’s government and military…
Mayor held for Mandela funeral fraud
Johannesburg — Buffalo City municipality Mayor Zukiswa Ncitha and two others were arrested on Monday for alleged fraud involving Nelson Mandela’s memorial service, Eastern Cape officials said.
Kenya ‘grass cutter’ gang rape trial opens
Busia — The trial of a man accused of carrying out a brutal gang rape of a schoolgirl, who was made to cut grass as punishment, opened on Tuesday in…
Congo switches off to watch the World Cup
World Cup fever has forced the Democratic Republic of Congo’s national power firm to tell customers to turn everything off but the TV so there is enough electricity for everyone…
Zuma put up for sale in ad: report
Johannesburg — President Jacob Zuma was put up for sale in a tongue-in-cheek advert on classifieds website Gumtree, The Star reported on Monday.
Egypt sentences Christian convert to 5 years
Assiut — A security official says a southern Egyptian court has sentenced a journalist who is a Christian convert to five years in prison on charges of inciting sectarianism.
168 children rescued from sex traffickers
Washington — Federal authorities conducted a sweep through more than 100 US cities and recovered 168 children from child sex trafficking, the FBI said on Monday.