Govt hails Paralympic team
Grace Chingoma, Senior Sports Reporter YOUTH, Sport, Arts and Recreation Minister, Kirsty Coventry, has commended the Paralympic team for flying the country’s flag high at the World Para Grand Prix…
Myanmar army faces crippling mass strike
Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Myanmar for a ninth day of anti-coup demonstrations yesterday, as the new army rulers grappled to contain a strike by…
New tool to measure countries’ SDGs progress unveiled
Business Reporter THE United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has unveiled a new tool to measure countries’ capacity to achieve social and economic transformation. The “Productive Capacities Index…
Man forces girlfriend to drink poison, kills self
Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief A FORMER Midlands State University (MSU) student died after she was forced to drink poison by her boyfriend, a money changer, who then committed suicide…
Police officers in stocktheft gang
Midlands Bureau Chief FIVE people from Mvuma including two police officers and a general hand at Mvuma Police Station have been arrested for allegedly stealing and selling five cattle. The…
‘Standards of boxing plummet’
Innocent Kurira, Sports Reporter FORMER lightweight boxer Johannes Jiyane says the standards of boxing have plummeted to alarming levels in the past decade. Tshaka Youth Centre, Iminyela, Isinga, Sizinda and…
Lupane fire victim buried, wife still in critical condition
Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter A SOMBRE atmosphere engulfed Mpofu village in Lupane on Saturday when a village head, who died from burns sustained when his grandson doused a three-…
Thailand couples tie the knot on elephants on Valentine’s Day
BANGKOK- Fifty-nine couples in Thailand got married while riding elephants yesterday, in an annual Valentine’s Day mass wedding ceremony at a botanical garden in a province east of Bangkok. Dancers…
Gwanda comedian Lincoln Magabo tries hand at music
Mthabisi Tshuma, Showbiz Correspondent GWANDA-based comedian Lincoln Magabo has released his first single, an RnB song titled Yindaba Uyisinkwa, Maskup. The track that was produced by JayD the Poet features…
Guinea reports Ebola deaths in first resurgence since 2016
Four people have died of Ebola in Guinea in the first resurgence of the disease in five years, the health minister said on Saturday. Remy Lamah told AFP officials were…











