Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's Mnangagwa confirms COVID-19 death of foreign affairs minister Moyo
Foreign affairs minister Sibusisio Moyo is the latest top government official to succumb to the virus, following the weekend death of Manicaland provincial...
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Harare court denies bail for journalist Hopewell Chin'ono
The journalist was arrested six days ago for tweeting about an alleged police assault on a baby.
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Zim govt orders burials of COVID-19 victims be done in towns where they died
Government said that bodies could not be taken home for family members to pay their last respects.
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Zimbabwe journalist Chin'ono vows 'fight' for media rights from prison
Hopewell Chin'ono, 48, was jailed a third time last week for posting a video allegedly showing a police officer beating a baby to death.
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Zim journo Hopewell Chin’ono rearrested over tweet about police
The journalist was picked up at his Harare home on Friday afternoon and police are accusing him of communicating falsehoods.
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UK extends restricted entry from some African countries over SA’s COVID variant
Zimbabwe, like many other countries, is experiencing a surge in coronavirus deaths and infections, with 15 deaths and 871 cases in the past 24 hours, though there's been no confirmation it's due to the new variant.
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Police appeal for information after Zim’s ‘biggest ever’ cash-in-transit heist
Police say the driver and his two colleagues gave a lift to six passengers. One produced a pistol and disarmed the drivers at a lay-bye near the Gwebi River.
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COVID-19: Trio gets jail time for hosting NYE party in Zimbabwe
The three had organised a musical event on New Year’s Eve in breach of a ban on public gatherings.
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Zimbabwe enters hard lockdown in ‘final push to defeat coronavirus’
There has been a sudden surge in infections and deaths, with 564 new cases and four deaths reported over the past 24 hours.
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Zimbabwe goes back to hard lockdown over rising COVID-19 deaths, infections
In a statement read on Saturday night, Zimbabwe's Vice President said 1,342 infections and 29 deaths recorded in the past week were the highest so far.
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SAAFF calls on govt to urgently intervene in Beitbridge border post backlogs
Travellers seeking entry into Zimbabwe have spent nearly a week at the post in queues stretching several kilometres.
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Zimbabwe opposition VP Tendai Biti released on bail after assault charge
Tendai Biti, 53, was freed on $10,000 bail after a night behind bars, after having been charged with assault.
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Zimbabwe VP's estranged wife appears in court on stretcher bed
Reportedly critically ill with an unknown ailment, Mary Mubaiwa was briefly hauled into a Harare magistrate's court where her legal team argued she was not well enough to stand trial for allegedly assaulting a domestic worker.
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First body pulled from Zimbabwe gold mine disaster
Around 40 people are thought to be stuck underground in the town of Bindura, around 70 kilometres (43 miles) northeast of the capital Harare, where the disaster occurred five days ago.
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SA’s land borders worse than being porous, claims the DA
The party’s Shadow Minister of Defence Kobus Marias and his team have been on an oversight visit to evaluate conditions at several border posts between South Africa and Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
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DA to visit Mozambique & Zimbabwe borders to experience border control
DA shadow minister of defense Kobus Marius said the department must act and stop making empty promises.
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100 pupils test positive for COVID-19 at Zimbabwe school
Zimbabwe has so far recorded 8,897 cases of coronavirus, including 257 deaths, far fewer than in neighbouring South Africa, which has notched up more than 750,000 cases with 20,314 fatalities.
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Zim journalist Hopewell Chin'ono denied bail again - report
He had initially been arrested in July on charges of inciting public violence ahead of planned anti-government protests but was freed in September on bail. He was rearrested for violating a ban by posting information on Twitter.
