Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Settlement Minister Perrance Shiri has called for more support for new farmers to address food insecurity issues and to boost productivity and exports. He said agriculture was the mainstay of the economy and hence it was critical to render capacity building and material support programmes to both small-scale and commercial farmers. The minister made… Read more »
Government officials, the Zimbabwe Republic Police and municipalities around Mashonaland West Province last week launched a blitz on illegal vendors operating in undesignated areas to bring sanity to the province’s urban centres. The operation is targeting illegal food vendors who are accused of fuelling the spread of diseases such as cholera and typhoid. The officials have been engaged in running… Read more »
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) on Tuesday insisted the organised labour would commence strike from the early hours of Thursday, following the federal government’s failure to honour its ultimatum on the new minimum wage. A statement signed by Musa-Lawal Ozigi, TUC secretary general in Abuja, said the decision to embark on strike was sequel to the resolve of the Central… Read more »
Pirates have kidnapped 12 crew members from a Swiss cargo vessel in Nigerian waters. Massoel Shipping said its vessel, MV Glarus, was carrying wheat from Lniagos to Port Harcourt when it was attacked on Saturday. “The pirate gang boarded the Glarus by means of long ladders and cut the razor wire on deck,” the firm told AFP. The intruders struck… Read more »
By Anna Chibamu MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has again scoffed at Zanu PF plans to create an official leader of the opposition position, saying he does not need a job. He insisted that and that it is the 95% unemployed Zimbabweans that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government should concern themselves with. “(Chamisa) advises anyone who has positions, perks, titles… Read more »
Former president Thabo Mbeki has lashed out at the ANC, saying its new policy to expropriate land without compensation is a deviation from non-racialism, which is the party’s founding principle. This is contained in a 30-page leaked document which has the Thabo Mbeki Foundation emblem on it. It states that taking land from white people to give to black people… Read more »
Rwanda’s agricultural performance has recorded a robust increment in export revenue thanks to the strategies that the government has laid in place. The government raked in $515.9 million in a period of one year from July 2017 to June 2018, which was a 44.73 percent rise in comparison to a similar period last year. Under the 2016/17 era, the country… Read more »
Days after the terror group, Boko Haram, released a video showing the killing of an aide worker, and threatening to harm the abducted Dapchi schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu, the Christian Association of Nigeria has demanded her immediate release. The association also called on government to ensure the safe release of over a hundred Chibok girls still held by the terror group… Read more »
The Swaziland Industrial Court has forced teachers to postpone a strike planned to start on Tuesday and banned outright one by public service workers. The rulings came days after police violently attacked legal protests by workers.
President Cyril Ramaphosa and his US counterpart Donald Trump will not have bilateral talks while attending the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York this week, according to a report. Rather, International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu will meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about the “true situation in South Africa”, Netwerk24 reported.