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Mukachana Hanyani Correspondent IT is not proper for the UN Security Council (UNSC) to remain superintended by only five-member countries as if they are supreme beings to the extent that…
MPs must rise above partisan politics
Lloyd Gumbo Mr Speaker Sir It is expected that MPs are rational human beings when they carry out their parliamentary duties, as such they should instead use public hearings to…
Editorial Comment – Typhoid: No lessons learnt from the past
Zimbabwe should not be having to deal with yet another diarrhoeal outbreak. After the cholera outbreak of 2008 which killed so many people, we should have learnt our lessons. Yet…
WHO warns against blood donations
Geneva. – The World Health Organisation yesterday advised countries against accepting blood donations from people who have travelled to regions affected by the Zika virus, as Spain announced Europe’s first…
‘Assange victim of detention’
LONDON — Sweden’s foreign ministry said yesterday that a UN advisory panel has concluded that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s has been a victim of “arbitrary” detention at the Ecuadorean Embassy…
Whale stranded on British beach
London. – A sperm whale washed up in shallow water off a beach in Britain yesterday, the 29th such stranding in Europe in the last two weeks.
Timbuktu celebrates mausoleum recovery
Timbuktu (Mali). – Mali’s fabled city of Timbuktu yesterday celebrated the recovery of its historic mausoleums, destroyed during an Islamist takeover of northern Mali in 2012 and rebuilt thanks to…
143 kombis impounded
Crime Reporter Police this week impounded 143 commuter omnibuses and pirate taxis in Harare and Bulawayo as the blitz against kombis intensifies countrywide.
Kereke rape duplicate docket ‘tampered with’
Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter The Prosecutor-General’s Office has been ordered to release the original docket of the rape case involving Zanu-PF Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke after the private…
Police sued over gold
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri and former Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi have been dragged to court over failure to release 2,136 kg of gold nuggets…