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Brazil’s supreme court was to rule yesterday on whether former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva should start a 12 year prison sentence for corruption, potentially upending this year’s presidential election.
Making sense of differences between evidence, experience
While there is an increase in emphasis on evidence-based policy, evidence-based medicine and evidence based this and that, people’s collective experiences may be more powerful than evidence alone.
Province to benefit from Command Broiler initiative
Chicken rearing is now one of the critical components of Command Livestock as Government angles to uplift people’s lives, Mashonaland Central crops and livestock officer Mr Stancilae Tapererwa has said.
Botswana parly endorses new VP
The Parliament of Botswana yesterday endorsed ruling party Member of Parliament Slumber Tsogwane as the country’s vice president.
Farmers against Cottco monopoly
Cotton farmers are against the Cotton Company of Zimbabwe’s current push to have its monopoly on cotton marketing restored, saying this will grossly be prejudicial.
Food insecurity: Seed firms must show commitment
The rainy season is already here with us and most farmers have begun to plant various seeds nearly across Africa.
Top-notch Hurungwe hospital to open soon
A 60-bed composite hospital in Hurungwe is set to open its doors to the public to complement existing health centres and improve access to health services.
Days of sloganeering are over, says President
Zanu-PF President and First Secretary Emmerson Mnangagwa has castigated the elevation of some party members to positions of authority simply because they can recite a slogan, saying those days were over.
Africa’s oldest canoe set for exhibition in Nigeria
Nigerian authorities on Wednesday said the 8,500-year-old Dufuna canoe, believed to be the oldest in Africa and third oldest in the world’s watercraft, is set for public viewing in the west African country.
Djokovic fires coach
Former world No. 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic yesterday announced he had parted ways with Czech coach Radek Stepanek.