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Funding Cuts Put Women’s Health Services at Risk
 Cuts to health funding and growing attacks on gender and reproductive rights are threatening access to essential services for women and girls, health and rights experts have warned.Speaking at the SH...
LIBERATION VETERANS STRUGGLE FOR RELEVANCE AS NEW POWER BROKERS EMERGE IN ZIM
  From commandeering troops through the bush and fighting for a free Zimbabwe in Chimoio and across the region, the generation of liberation war veterans earned an unquestioned position in the country...
Hulengende, wife arrested
Zimdancehall musician Hulengende and his wife, Malloti, have been arrested following their performance at the Harare edition of Doek and Slay held at Glamis Arena.The arrest comes amid mounting compla...
Kombi Driver Jailed 30 Months After Police Chase, Dagga Find
 A 24-year-old Harare commuter omnibus driver was sentenced to an effective 30 months in prison this week after he repeatedly ignored police orders to stop, drove through red traffic lights and agains...
Harare Man Accused of Assaulting Two Prison Officers
 A Harare man appeared before the Harare Magistrates’ Court this week facing two counts of assault after he allegedly attacked two prison officers during separate incidents.Francis Machoba appeared be...
Church crowdfunds $1000 to cover uncle's Kandege debt to nephew
 Church members contributed $1000 in an attempt to save a man who had blown his nephew's money on Aviator sports betting, popularly known as Kandege. .Tadious Mutevhe pleaded guilty to theft of trust...
Securing the Maritime Commons
 Amb Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty India’s Peninsular geography provides a long coastline extending to the Persian Gulf in West Asia and towards South East Asia in the East. Unarguably, this was an impetus...
Zimbabwe’s Transport Safety Crisis Goes Beyond Kariba
The Lake Kariba ferry disaster has opened a much wider question about Zimbabwe's public transport system: how much risk are citizens being forced to accept simply because safer alternatives are unavai...
Zimbabwe’s Mineral Jackpot: What’s Stopping the Investment?
Zimbabwe may possess one of the world’s most strategically valuable combinations of critical minerals, but the bigger question is why that geological advantage has not yet translated into a much large...
ZIFA’s ‘Future’ Project Faces Questions Over Standards
When ZIFA and BancABC launched the Roots Impact Programme in January, they did not present it as just another junior football competition.They presented it as a blueprint for the future of Zimbabwean...