Many trying to acquire cattle in face of latest inflation numbers. MBERENGWA, Zimbabwe Thirty years ago, 64-year-old Benito Zhou, a communal farmer in the Mberengwa district in Zimbabwe’s Midlands Province, started investing in cattle even as the animals were dying due to a menacing drought. In 1992, Zimbabwe was hit by a drought that decimated…
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that 300 councilors were killed in the country in the last few years. He said while the cause of the killings varies, violence at municipalities is often caused by public anger or criminals who have captured councils. Angry residents took to the streets 900 times across the country between August 2020 and…
LISBON, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Angola’s Constitutional Court made a final ruling on Thursday to dismiss a complaint filed by the runner-up in the Aug. 24 election seeking to annul the results that gave victory to the ruling MPLA. After the country’s most closely fought election, the electoral commission declared last week the People’s Movement for the…
05 September 2022 – The 2022 Government Technology (GovTech) conference will see representatives and ministers from various countries in Africa converge in South Africa to share their vision, knowledge, experience and expertise on digitisation, digitalisation, and other topics critical for the acceleration of digital transformation and service delivery in Africa. Under this year’s theme: “Digitisation and…
French judges have dropped a case against French soldiers deployed during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. The men had been accused of complicity in crimes against humanity. Survivors of the June 1994 slaughter in the hills of Bisesero in western Rwanda had accused French troops of deliberately abandoning them to Hutu extremists who murdered hundreds of people…
Following Dr Phophi Ramathuba’s outburst at a Zimbabwean patient, Nelson Chamisa writes that Zimbabwe’s neighbours should not have to carry the burden of poor leadership, and should push SADC to insist on elections. Like many people in Zimbabwe and elsewhere around the world, I recently watched a video in which Dr Phophi Ramathuba, the Limpopo MEC for…
African countries are increasingly important partners both in geostrategic and material terms. Neglecting them will weaken Britain itself and diminish its global role, writes Nicholas Westcott. New British prime minister Liz Truss has never said much in public about Africa. But, in my view, her administration must pay more attention to its relationship with Africa. African countries are…
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique have a more negative regard for chiefs. Afrobarometer respondents say generally people trust chiefs more than politicians because they believe they are less corrupt. Chiefs have made a comeback into community leadership as countries fought the Covid-19 pandemic. A recent Afrobarometer survey indicated good attitudes toward traditional leaders,…
LUSAKA, Sept 7 (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) does not anticipate any relief for Zambia after the end of a 2022-2025 debt programme, its mission chief Allison Holland said at a briefing on Wednesday. Zambia is seeking $8.4 billion of debt relief from 2022 to 2025, the IMF said on Tuesday in a report on…
DAKAR, Sept 8 (Reuters) – With soaring heat, rising seas, droughts and floods, climate change fallout is disproportionately affecting Africa, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday, calling for more financing to help countries adapt. Africa accounts for just 2-3% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, but overall the continent is warming faster than the global…