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HARARE – The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday appointed President Robert Mugabe as a global health ambassador for Africa to help governments tackle chronic diseases such as diabetes, stroke, cancer and heart disease. Mugabe, Africa’s oldest ruler at 93, will work with national and local politicians to highlight the heavy economic and health burden…

HARARE – Former Finance minister Tendai Biti is of the view that his successor, Patrick Chinamasa, should take the blame for the economic crisis that followed the liquidation of the government of national unity in 2013. A lawyer by profession, Chinamasa took over from Biti — also a legal practitioner — four years ago after…

HARARE – Embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is unlikely to go down without a fight amid revelations that his loyalists are planning to make their last stand at an extraordinary congress to be convened by Zanu PF in December. The Daily News can report that the bastions of support for Mnangagwa — the Midlands and…

HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has reached out to his disaffected deputy, Thokozani Khupe — meeting her in Harare on Monday to resolve differences related to key strategies ahead of the eagerly-anticipated 2018 national elections. Tsvangirai’s spokesperson, Luke Tamborinyoka, told the Daily News yesterday that the two MDC leaders had met at the Highlands…

HARARE – Four vendors who were arrested during Operation Restore Order after looting 48 cellphones were denied bail when they appeared in court yesterday. David Mazibiye, 41, Tinashe Mbofana, 24, Maxwell Mushamba, 20, and Paul Hanyani, 20, were charged with public violence when they appeared before Harare magistrate Josephine Sande. In her ruling, Sande castigated…

HARARE – A Harare magistrate has ruled that five police officers who viciously attacked a Harare man and caused the loss of his eye have a case to answer. Harare magistrate Farai Gwitima dismissed their application for discharge at the close of the State case. Livingstone Zvimba, Tendai Masungambira, Sunday Nyaude, Khululekani Dale, Evans Mashonganyika…

BULAWAYO – Former War Veterans minister, Tshinga Dube, who was recently dropped from President Robert Mugabe’s Cabinet, has once again sensationally claimed that there were characters in Zanu PF that had been baying for his blood ever since he challenged the 93-year-old to name his successor. He claimed that since his sacking, those people have…