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Afreximbank unveils green Harare trade hub

THE African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) says its Southern Africa Regional Office, the Afreximbank African Trade Centre Harare (AATC), is expected to become one of Harare’s green-certified buildings when construction is completed in the first quarter of 2027.The mixed-use development, located at the corner of Chitepo Avenue and 7th Street in Greenwood Park, central Harare, is…

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Govt pushes integrated planning for urban services

HAZEL MARIMBIZAIn Bulawayo GOVERNMENT is demanding integrated urban planning to ensure water, sanitation, and infrastructure match rapid settlement growth and prevent service delivery failures.Speaking during the Zimbabwe Water Indaba and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Joint Sector Review in Bulawayo yesterday, the minister of Local Government, Daniel Garwe, said development planning could no longer be…

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Deadly rise in domestic abuse triggers urgent calls for action

THE alarming rise in fatal domestic disputes and femi­cide in the country demands immediate and coordinated action across all sectors, worried au­thorities say. In this regard, the government has moved swiftly to operationalise the Anti-Domestic Violence Council, as part of a concrete national response to combat the emergency. This comes as deaths arising from marital…

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Opinion & Analysis

Why Zimbabwe, Zambia need a shared power strategy

WELLINGTON MUZENGEZA STANDING on the wall of Kariba Dam, one sees turbines on the north bank feeding Zambia and those on the south serving Zimbabwe.On paper, the two countries operate distinct power systems. Their utilities have different balance sheets, tariffs, regulators and government owners.Yet the water turning those turbines is shared.This is the paradox at…

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Raw sewage threatens Harare health

Brandon Josphat HARARE Metropolitan is sitting on a public health time bomb as the continued discharge of raw sewage into public water sources threatens to fuel outbreaks of waterborne diseases, Parliament has warned.The warning is contained in a report tabled in the National Assembly last week by the Portfolio Committee on Environment, which said the…

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Zanu PF shuts down critics’ monarchy talk

BRANDON JOSPHAT Political Editor THE ruling Zanu PF says it has no intentions of replacing the country’s current republican framework with a monarchy. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday at the weekend, the party’s spokesperson, Christo­pher Mutsvangwa, said the re­cently introduced Munhumutapa Day holiday had “absolutely nothing to do” with establishing a monarchy in…

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BII signals confidence in Zimbabwe reforms

KUDZANAI GEREDE G THE combined US$50 million credit facility extended by British International Investment (BII) to two local banks signals growing confidence in Zimbabwe’s economic reforms and re-engagement efforts.The credit lines, split into US$30 million and US$20 million for CABS and NMB, respectively, mark a return to Zimbabwe by the United Kingdom government-owned development financier…

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Yadah Hotel cleared of unregistered drugs

YADAH Hotel, owned by Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries founder Walter Magaya, has been acquitted by the Harare Magistrates Court in a case in which it was accused of possessing various unregistered medicines at its Waterfalls premises.Yadah Hotel, represented by Donald Makuvaza, was facing two counts of violating the Medicines and Allied Substances Control…

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Zimbabwe seeks World Bank debt support

News Editor ZIMBABWE is seeking World Bank support to clear its international debt and unlock fi­nancing for its social and economic develop­ment to improve livelihoods, the Minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube, has said. Speaking after meeting World Bank managing di­rector Anna Bjerde and senior officials in New York on Friday, Ncube said the bank’s backing…

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Strong opposition vital for Zim’s future

ZIMBABWE’S democracy is currently limping on one leg, and the consequences are plain for all to see.As veteran opposition stalwart David Coltart recently warned in a candid interview with our sister newspaper, the Daily News, the country’s opposition movement is at its weakest and most fractured point since independence in 1980.Plagued by petty internal feuds,…

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