adminService charges stall $100m disbursement to miners
Prosper Ndlovu Business Editor SMALL-scale miners are yet to access the $100 million Chinese loan facility signed in June last year as the government has not met its 30 percent…
Blanket Mine output declines
ZIMBABWE focused gold miner Caledonia Mining’s 49 percent owned Blanket Mine produced 9,960oz in the first quarter of the year, the firm said. Although output was 2.7 percent lower than…
Treasury needs $30m to finish Tokwe-Mukorsi dam
Leonard Ncube Victoria Falls Reporter FINANCE and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa has said Treasury needs about $30 million to complete the construction of the country’s largest inland dam, Tokwe-Mukorsi…
Arrears award will create $1bn deficit — Zesa
Harare Bureau POWER utility Zesa Holding has pleaded with workers to accept grossly diluted salary arrears offer arguing implementing the order from a collective bargaining arbitral award would leave it…
Fear, confusion grip Burundi after violence
Bujumbura — Residents of Bujumbura cowered at home as rival armed troops were out in force in the city’s streets yesterday, the day after an attempted coup plunged Burundi deeper…
Zambia police quiz scribes over presidency graft story
Lusaka — Zambian police said they had questioned two journalists at a newspaper that published a story illegally drawn from classified documents about a graft investigation of a presidential aide,…
SA under scrutiny for ‘state xenophobia’
Johannesburg — A semblance of normalcy is returning to the streets of the inner city of Johannesburg weeks after xenophobic violence hit South Africa’s commercial capital. The city appears to…
Choppers, drone hunt for missing US Huey in Nepal
Charikot — Military helicopters flew over eastern Nepal and a team sent up a drone yesterday to search for a missing US Marines Huey chopper, as the death toll rose…
Nigeria army repels Boko Haram attack on Maiduguri
Kano — Boko Haram fighters launched an attack on northeast Nigeria’s largest city Maiduguri on Wednesday but were repelled by Nigerian troops after intense clashes, residents and the army said.…
Calls grow for probe into sexual abuse by UN personnel
New York — Nelson Mandela’s widow, Graca Machel, joined prominent activists on Wednesday to call for a full inquiry on sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers and personnel following the furore…