Save the trees, Niger urges ahead of roast sheep festival

  Niger on Thursday warned it would prevent excessive use of wood for roasting sheep for an upcoming Muslim festival, declaring the problem imperilled the Sahel country’s fragile forests.

Female filmmaker Karen Mukwasi defies odds

Pamenus Tuso Female filmmakers continue to make significant strides despite facing numerous challenges in the male dominated Zimbabwe filmmaking industry.

Government appoints three commissioners to run BCC

Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Correspondent GOVERNMENT has appointed three commissioners to run the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) in the absence of councillors who are yet to be sworn in following the…

Goverment steps up typhoid fight

Locadia Mavhudzi, Midlands Correspondent Government has stepped up efforts to contain the typhoid outbreak in Gweru and has so far seconded more nurses from Kwekwe and Silobela hospitals to assist…

Kudos to AfDB, Zimbabwe for WMB

Stephen Mpofu Societal structures in Africa are generally faulty with women and youth who boast superior statistics population wise, often shoved in the shade when it comes to issues of…

Black women are in the shadows

Bongiwe Nkomazana on Gender Last week we talked about the stereotypes given to black women and as I was writing on the “strong black woman complex” in particular, another train…

Search for survivors as anger mounts over Italy bridge collapse

Rescue workers in Genoa toiled for a third night in the wreckage of a collapsed bridge, continuing the desperate search for people still missing after the accident, which left at…

NPRC engages Govt, MDC Alliance over post election violence

Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Correspondent THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has said it has engaged Government and the MDC Alliance to  ensure that violent skirmishes that occurred in Harare…

Net closes in on land barons

Auxilia Katongomara, Chronicle Reporter THE net is closing in on land barons who for long have been untouchable as their arrest is imminent, Acting Prosecutor General, Mr Kumbirai Hodzi, has…

Pneumonia accounts for 16percent deaths of children

Andile Tshuma, Chronicle Reporter THE Ministry of Health and Child Care has said 16 percent of children under the age of five years die from pneumonia-related illnesses every year. It…

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