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Correspondent IN a remarkable move last month, the African Union recommended the deployment of up to 5 000 peacekeeping troops to Burundi to prevent further bloodshed. The African nation has been…
Electrician ordered to pay child support
Ivan Zhakata Court Reporter A Rural Electrification Agency (REA) employee was yesterday taken to the Harare Civil Court by his wife who is demanding $300 for the upkeep of their minor…
Beijing says air quality improved in 2015
BEIJING. – Environmental authorities in Beijing say air quality improved in 2015, a year in which they issued the city’s first two red smog alerts and showed a greater willingness…
Learn to budget to avoid financial disappointments
Sanderson Abel Budgeting is often associated with deprivation and cutting back. However, creating and maintaining a budget does not have to be a painful process. It is important to appreciate…
Home-schooling in Zimbabwe
Special Correspondent A compelling pattern that I have observed in relation to our education system is that the more our public education system has become questionable the more parents are…
I’m not Pep: Zizou
MADRID. — Zinedine Zidane’s elevation to the first team at Real Madrid has been compared with Pep Guardiola’s rise at Barcelona. But Zidane was quick to play down suggestions there were…
Everton to end drought
LIVERPOOL. — It is more than 20 years since Everton last won a trophy and Roberto Martinez says more silverware is long overdue as his side prepare for tonight’s League…
Gold extends gains
SINGAPORE. — Gold added to an overnight surge in prices yesterday, as escalating geopolitical tension in the Middle East and a global stock market rout triggered safe-haven bids for the…
Africa’s boom is over
Rick Rowden Correspondent IN recent years, economists and popular publications alike have argued that Africa was on the threshold of an economic boom. Pointing to a decade of high growth…
Emerging market portfolio flows at weakest level
LONDON — Foreign investors in emerging market securities made net withdrawals for an unprecedented six consecutive months in the second half of 2015, resulting in the lowest annual level of…