adminMacron sets up Africa policy think-tank
PARIS. — French President Emmanuel Macron has established a brand new Presidential Council for Africa, designed to advise him on African issues and help identify and address the many challenges…
Drug store shut down over athletes’ doping substances
ADDIS ABABA. — A drugstore in Ethiopia that was selling banned substances to athletes across the road from the country’s main track stadium has been shut down while authorities investigate.
Africa seeks to unlock tourism potential
KIGALI. — African ministers on Tuesday called on African governments to liberalise tourism policies to make it easy for tourists and operators to move through the continent in order to…
China speaks on DPRK sanctions
BEIJING. — China said yesterday sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) must be within the framework of the UN Security Council.
Storm Harvey strikes again
HOUSTON. — After pouring record rains on Texas, Tropical Storm Harvey made a second landfall yesterday to strike Louisiana, a state that still bears deep scars from 2005’s Hurricane Katrina.
More farmers to grow tobacco
Elita Chikwati Senior Agriculture Reporter Tobacco farmers have sown a seed bed area enough to cover over 34 400 hectares for the 2017 /18 cropping season, as communal and A1 farmers…
Council urged to reduce permit fees
Innocent Ruwende Municipal Reporter Urban transport operators have asked Harare to reduce the fee charged for rank discs in its 2018 budget in line with Government’s Ease of Doing Business policy,…
Mohadi donates to senior citizens
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau Beitbridge constituency Senator, Cde Tambudzani Mohadi, has donated food hampers to 30 elderly people in the district as part of her annual charity programme.
Govt reinstates retrenched youths
Nyore Madzianike Mutare Bureau Zanu-PF National Secretary for the Youth League, Cde Kudzanayi Chipanga, has said all the youth officers who had been retrenched from Government, including some in Maniclaand, have…
WHO takes political route
Paidamoyo Chipunza in Victoria Falls African health ministers attending this year’s session of the World Health Organisation regional committee meeting here in Victoria Falls have agreed to take a political…