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Eduction Ministry HR Officer in court over car impor fraud
Munyaradzi MashiriZim Now Court Correspondent Chikomba District Human Resources officer, Chivhu, employed by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, has appeared in court facing fraud charges...
James Earl Jones, voice of Darth Vader, dies at 93
Zim Now WriterAmerican actor James Earl Jones, best known for being the voice of the Star Wars villain Darth Vader, has died aged 93.He died early on Monday morning surrounded by his family, his agent...
47 inmates escape from prison in Liberia
Forty-seven inmates on Sunday escaped from the Kakata Central Prison in Margibi County in Liberia.The Liberian Ministry of Justice confirmed the incident citing that preliminary investigations indicat...
Algeria's president Tebboune re-elected for second term
 Zim Now Writer President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has been named the winner of Algeria's presidential election, granting him another term leading nation five years after pro-democracy protests led to the...
VMCZ conducts specialised reporting training for journalists
Patience MuchemwaSenior ReporterThe Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe last week Thursday conducted a specialised training session on court reporting and investigative journalism for journalists from...
Burrowing to death: Artisanal miners hollow the earth putting lives, buildings at risk
Edmore ZvinonzwaMining has for long been one of Zimbabwe’s major foreign currency earners with gold, diamonds and the platinum group of minerals buoying operations in the sector.Statistics show that i...
At least 50 killed in fuel tanker explosion in Nigeria
Zim Now WriterAt least 50 people died on Sunday after a fuel tanker collided head-on with another truck in Nigeria causing an explosion.The fuel tanker was also carrying cattle in the Agaie area in no...
Bogus estate agent fined for fraudulent land sale
Munyaradzi MashiriZim Now Court CorrespondentA man 29-year-old man has been fined US$280 for selling a non-existent land.Tatenda Muindisi appeared before magistrate Ruth Moyo at the Harare Magistrates...
Fire tears through Kenya boarding school dormitory, killing 17 boys
Reuters- A fire killed 17 boys when it tore through the dormitory in which they were sleeping at a boarding school in central Kenya in the early hours of Friday, police said."We saw several children i...
More than 189 000 children vaccinated for polio in Gaza
Oscar J JekeZim Now ReporterHumanitarian organisations, UNICEF, UNRWA and WHO in war-stricken Gaza Strip have managed to vaccinate over 189 000 children under the age of 10 years during a three-day ca...