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The government is working on a national strategic plan to combat desertification and land degradation, a plan that officials say is in its final stages.
Traffic Police Unit members should refrain from confiscating drivers' documents and government should inform the latter not to surrender their road documents, the Parliament was informed yesterday.
Load-shedding has crippled Harare's water treatment plants at Morton Jaffray and Prince Edward, resulting in erratic water supplies in and around the capital despite a Government directive against switching off strategic national installations.
A SUSPECTED case of mass hysteria has struck Nemanwa Primary School in Charumbira communal lands in Masvingo, where pupils are reportedly screaming wildly and complaining of visions of strange snake-like creatures and lions.
POLICE have arrested seven suspected members of a drug trafficking syndicate, including two Mozambicans, and recovered 1 400kg of mbanje worth about US$1,4 million.
Businessman and farmer Mr Temba Mliswa has donated 20 heifers and a bull to the Chinhoyi University of Technology for the institution to start a breeding programme at a farm allocated to it by the Government under the land reform programme.
A Harare man who was jailed for 20 months after selling firearm ammunition to members of the public has appealed against his sentence, saying that it was too severe in the circumstances.
Ordinary Level examinations begin today amid reports that school administrators are making frantic efforts to convince teachers to invigilate without compensation after the school term closes on December 4.
COMPANIES facing viability problems have laid off more than 2 000 workers this year while others have gone for over two years without paying severance packages to those retrenched, the Parliamentary Committee on Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare heard on Monday.
SADC must support and strengthen genetically modified organism detection laboratories to curb the influx of undesirable GMO products and enhance the capacity of the region to verify the GM content of food imports and exports, scientists said yesterday.
MITCHELL and Mitchell -- the exporter of horticultural produce -- is insolvent and its directors have filed an application for provisional liquidation.
FARMERS resettled under the A2 scheme who have not been benefiting from Food and Agriculture Organisation input-supported programmes can now access Government subsidised inputs.
The United Nations Security Council's tenuous authority in Africa has been further threatened by an explosive new report from a UN Group of Experts* showing wide-ranging violations of the arms embargo on Congo-Kinshasa by both Western and African states.
Uganda is in a pole position to become one of the top 50 oil-producing countries in the world in six years, according to experts.
The rate of new HIV infections has slowly declined in sub-Saharan Africa, but the region remains the area of the world most heavily hit by the epidemic and it accounts for nine of every 10 new infections among children.
Ghana's enthusiastic efforts to become a major oil industry player in Africa could be short lived, as the country would only mine the 'Black Gold' for just 20 years. Furthermore, data from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund have projected that Ghana could rake a total of $ 247.44million as oil revenues in 2011, which would decline to $1,550 in 2017.
Voters' turnout in the final round of election for the Montserrado senatorial seat, between the ruling Unity Party and the Congress for Democratic Change, was far poorer than the first round when 20% of an estimated 477,000 voters cast their ballots.
INFRASTRUCTURE development topped the Federal Government's agenda in Capital Expenditure of the N4.07 trillion budgetary proposal for 2010 laid separately before the Senate and the House of Representatives yesterday.
Nigeria signed a 677 million euro ($1bn) pact with the European Union on Thursday aimed at combating corruption and promoting peace in its troubled, oil-producing Niger Delta region.
Despite progress in Sudan in the past two years in tackling the problem of children in armed conflict, many challenges remain, ranging from reintegrating child soldiers to dealing with youngsters abducted by the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) who have been brainwashed into killing their own parents, a senior United Nations official said today.
Leading economists from across Africa are meeting in Nairobi to discuss the continent's economy.
As Kenya contemplates a policy shift from rain-fed agriculture to irrigation, some women in North Eastern Province are ahead of the game: they have turned to rain water harvesting for food production and their efforts are bearing fruit.
Abdalla Adam, an IDP (internally displaced person) leader from Alryad camp in El Geneina, West Darfur, says that he desperately wants to return to his village, Mestarei, from which he was forced to leave in 2003, but cannot because others have occupied his land.
Some 100 children under five years of age will die today in Zimbabwe, a bleak statistic that is part of new social development data released by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Government, revealing that the situation there for women and children has deteriorated in the past five years.
As Rwanda applies this week to join the Commonwealth, the international grouping dominated by ex-British colonies, both its membership application and a number of recent books on Central Africa are focusing new attention on the current government's human rights record.
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