Community Mobilization and Digital Technologies Accelerate the Response to HIV and COVID-19 in Gabon
Gabon is one of the partnering countries involved in the Partnerships to Accelerate COVID-19 Testing (PACT) initiative in Africa. The project, developed under a partnership between UNAIDS and the Africa…
President commissions fruit and vegetable processing plant
President Mnangagwa has today commissioned a US$1 million fruit and vegetable processing plant in Mutoko which is expected to contribute to crop value addition for the local community in line with Vision 2030 anchored by the National Development Strategy 1.
No safe place to go for asylum-seekers snared in Libya dragnet
When Libyan forces swept through Tripoli’s Gergaresh neighbourhood earlier this month in a security crackdown, 17-year-old Eritrean mechanic Hamza* was caught up in the dragnet. Arrested at his home, he…
President Mnangagwa warns Agritex officers
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has warned Agriculture Extension Officers who deliberately omit other families in the distribution of Pfumvudza inputs that they will be dismissed.
UNESCO- SADC Science, Technology and Innovation Online Training for High Level Officials continues
African governments are increasingly recognising the need to invest in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) capabilities in order to respond to the socio-economic challenges they face and to achieve Sustainable…
BCC reduces 2022 budget
Vusumuzi Dube, Online News Editor THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has reduced their budget projects for 2022 from $24 billion to $23 billion after residents raised concern over the margin…
PM call with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt: 14 October 2021
The Prime Minister spoke to Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi this morning, ahead of next month’s COP26 Summit. He congratulated the President on Egypt’s nomination to host COP27, and they…
Plaudits for Milestones in ECA-Cameroon Relations during Antonio Pedro’s term as Head of Central Africa Office
The Government of Cameroon has expressed gratitude to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) for its extensive support to the country’s structural transformation and economic diversification processes in…
JUST IN: The second edition of youth recognition awards on the cards
Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief A LOCAL national Non-Governmental Organisation, 4-H Zimbabwe in conjunction with the Ministry of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation is hosting the second edition of youth…
UNESCO Trains New Community Radios’ Practitioners in Zimbabwe
The UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa (ROSA) in collaboration with the Perch Media Trust, the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Association of Community Radios (ZACRAS) conducted training…











