adminHumanitarian crisis as relief agencies pull out of S Sudan
KHARTOUM — Concerns are mounting in South Sudan over a possible humanitarian disaster due to the withdrawal of a number of aid bodies amid escalating military confrontations between government forces…
Niger deports more Nigerians who fled Boko Haram
NIGER deported 1,200 people who fled Nigeria so that it can carry out a military operation against Boko Haram, authorities in the French-speaking country said Saturday. The 1,200 Nigerians are among…
AU sends delegation to Burundi
ADDIS ABABA — The African Union (AU) has dispatched a high-level delegation to Burundi to help find peaceful solution to the crisis in that country, said a statement from the…
KZN prison burns, inmates evacuted
PITERMARITZBUGH — The Glencoe Prison in northern KwaZulu-Natal was at the time of going to press on fire and hundreds of inmates have been evacuated, police said yesterday. Police spokesperson Thulani…
CAR militias agree to disarmament deal
BANGUI – Rival armed groups in Central African Republic agreed on Sunday to a peace accord requiring them to disarm and potentially face justice for war crimes committed during two…
72 dead as Syria army battles to free loyalists
BEIRUT — At least 72 fighters were killed in a single day as the Syrian army battled to relieve some 250 besieged regime loyalists under rebel assault, a monitoring group…
Transport technologies to boost economy — Mpofu
Oliver Kazunga Senior Business Reporter— TRANSPORT and Infrastructural Development Minister Obert Mpofu has challenged African countries to invest in sustainable transport technologies to address the challenges linked to underdevelopment the region…
NSSA investment policy review begins
Martin Kadzere Harare Bureau The government has started reviewing the investment policy framework of the National Social Security Authority to place more emphasis on developmental investments. The changes are partly in response…
Astra Building Centre wins international award
Molline Gagare Business Reporter A LOCAL building materials stockist Astra Building Centre has won an international construction award for its devotion and innovative idea of the Hydraform building concept. The building concept…
76pc migrants didn’t send money home: Zimstat
Business Reporter THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) says about 76 percent of labour migrants last year did not send remittances back home. In the 2014 Characteristics of Labour Migrants Report,…