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©️ THE MDC Alliance has received the backing of the trustees of Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House who say the pact should remain in occupation of the hugely symbolic building, the Daily News reports.

WITH MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa fighting on two fronts — an internal battle for the control of the party with Thokozani Khupe and the closure of democratic space by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration — analysts say it is…

©️ HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo is in the dog box after the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) opened a docket to probe his qualifications and controversial coronavirus deals following a complaint by a private citizen, the Daily…

©️ IN A move that underscores both the lack of leadership and senselessness of the turmoil that is consuming the MDC, Nelson Chamisa has barred his once close associates from speaking to the media, the Daily News can reveal.

AS THE MDC’s factional wars continue to escalate, a party youth leader yesterday accused his rivals of allegedly being behind a petrol bomb attack at his residence on Sunday, the Daily News reports.

©️ THE confusion engulfing the weakening MDC continues to deepen, with the party’s interim leadership seizing the main opposition’s iconic national headquarters in Harare from their internal rivals on Thursday night, the Daily News reports.

©️ MEMBERS of Parliament have suggested that the safest time to re-open schools as Covid-19 cases continue to surge in the country is in summer.

RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya says the country is importing adequate fuel not to warrant shortages, but there is indiscipline in the oil sector, the Daily News reports.

POLICE have blocked a planned Zanu PF demonstration tomorrow at the United States (US) embassy in the capital against the killing of African-American George Floyd by the police in Minneapolis.

UNDER pressure MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, yesterday caved in to his MPs’ demands and made a U-turn on an earlier decree ordering them to withdraw from Parliament.

©️ PROMINENT Harare lawyer Thabani Mpofu was arrested yesterday for allegedly defeating the course of justice in a Constitutional Court application that he filed last year challenging the appointment of Prosecutor General Kumbirai Hodzi,…

IN A surprising development at the weekend, the interim leader of the MDC — Thokozani Khupe — paid a visit to the rural home of the main opposition party’s late founding father, Morgan Tsvangirai, as the mindless bloodletting within the…

THOKOZANI Khupe, the acting MDC president, has recommended 12 sitting Members of Parliament (MPs) for recall as she consolidates her power in the party.

PARLIAMENT is set to introduce a facility where female MPs will access sanitary pads while in the august House, the Daily News reports.

HEALTH experts have warned government against re-opening of schools next month as it exposes not only teachers and learners, but also their parents to the deadly coronavirus (Covid-19), the Daily News on Sunday reports.

©️ TOBACCO farmers countrywide are not keen to release their golden leaf for sale at auction floors demanding all their earnings in United States dollars due to a lack of confidence in the local currency, a government official has said.

ALL Members of Parliament — including those from the opposition — will now be expected to recognise President Emmerson Mnangagwa following the adoption of new rules by the august House, the Daily News reports.

©️ INTERIM MDC president Thokozani Khupe, pictured, has upped the ante in the war for the control of the country’s main opposition — vowing yesterday that she will eject her rivals from the party’s iconic national headquarters in Harare as…

PARLIAMENT has reverted to using its premises as it resumes today with only the National Assembly sitting and using the Senate chamber as well to ensure social distancing is observed amid coronavirus (Covid-19) fears, the Daily News…

REINSTATED MDC secretary- general Douglas Mwonzora has described Thursday’s meeting of the party’s 2014 national council at the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House as unconstitutional and meant to derail preparations for the extraordinary…

THE Human Rights Institute of South Africa (Hurisa) has petitioned the African Commission for Human and People’s Rights over the alleged abduction and torture of three MDC youth leaders — Joanna Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova —…

©️ THERE was drama in Parliament yesterday when Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (Gmaz) chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara clashed with the portfolio committee on Agriculture after it denied him the right to legal representation while…

THE government says it needs a whopping $21 billion to ensure the safe re-opening of schools, in the wake of the havoc that has been caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Daily News reports.

©️ IN A significant boost for Nelson Chamisa in his battle for control of the MDC, the majority of the warring party’s Harare legislators stayed away from Parliament yesterday, the Daily News reports.

THE High Court has postponed to tomorrow the case in which Nelson Chamisa’s MDC Alliance is seeking to stop reinstated MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora, pictured, from recalling MPs from Parliament, the Daily News reports.