WHAT’S INSIDE: KEY HIGHLIGHTS FROM UDP’S MANIFESTO

DAR ES SALAAM: THE United Democratic Party (UDP) has launched its 2025–2030 election manifesto which the party said it outlines a road map for building a selfreliant nation — one that depends primarily on domestic productivity rather than foreign...

Nigeria Top Medals Table at Africa Para Badminton Championships 

Team Nigeria dominated the table at the Africa Para Badminton Championships 2025, with 36 medals, including 10 gold, 13 silver and 13 bronze as the competition concluded on Sunday. The National Olympic Committee of Kenya came in second position...

VP Chiwenga’s urges coal miners to support railway revival

Nqobile Bhebhe-Zimpapers Senior Writer VICE President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has urged coal mining companies operating in Hwange to pool their resources and support the rehabilitation of the Victoria Falls-Bulawayo railway line. This, he said,...

Team Nigeria emerges overall winner at Africa Para Badminton Championships

Team Nigeria has emerged as the overall winner of the 2025 Africa Para Badminton Championships, clinching 36 medals, including 10 gold, 13 silver, and 13 bronze, as the competition ended on Sunday in Umuahia, Abia State. The National Olympic...

Nigeria Tops Medal Table At Africa Para Badminton Championships

Team Nigeria dominated the table at the Africa Para Badminton Championships 2025, with 36 medals, including 10 gold, 13 silver and 13 bronze as the competition concluded on Sunday. The National Olympic Committee of Kenya came in second position...

Chiwenga accuses Jonathan Moyo of treason

Zimbabwe's Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, a former army general who led the 2017 coup that ousted long-time leader Robert Mugabe, has accused his exiled political rival Professor Jonathan Moyo of treasonous activities for allegedly writing a...

BROKEN EQUALITY DREAM

Women defy odds but still trail behind men in politics The 50-50 goal remains more slogan than reality Vision 2063 and SDG 5 still await action By Kelvin Tembo When the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) declared Pilirani Kaphagawani Buleya as a...

Only 19% of REDD+ tropical forest offsets meet targets: Study

Only a small number of tropical forests carbon offset projects have achieved significant cuts in deforestation, with just 19 per cent meeting their reported targets, according to a new study published in Science. These offset projects are a part...

Africa re-imagined

African independence produced infant countries severed from the already established economic and administrative systems, leaving them exposed and vulnerable to whatever adversity that arose. The landmass called Africa is too fragmented to thrive...

US Seeks Deeper Energy Partnership with Africa Says Cruz

The United States is stepping up efforts to become Africa’s key energy partner, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz said this week, urging closer cooperation between Washington and African nations to unlock the continent’s energy potential through private...

Zimbabwean companies pioneer smarter farming and trade in Botswana

Zimbabwean companies pioneer smarter farming and trade in Botswana AT the heart of Zimbabwe’s vibrant agri-business sector, two innovative companies are using technology to solve some of the continent’s most pressing agricultural challenges....

‘Like human trafficking’: How US deported five men to Eswatini under secretive deal

WASHINGTON, Oct 11 — Roberto Mosquera’s family had no trace of him for a month after he was arrested by US immigration agents, until a government social media post revealed he had been deported to Africa’s last absolute monarchy. Immigration and...

Zimbabwean engineers in breakthrough energy invention

Two Harare-based engineers have developed a groundbreaking hydropower engine and pump that promises to generate electricity without relying on rivers, lakes, or dams. The invention, which harnesses water stored in tanks mounted on tall buildings,...

Chrome producers should stop subsidising the world economy

Chrome mining ... Producers and smelters may need to emulate the brilliance of Opec. CHROME is an essential industrial commodity. Over 90% of the world’s chrome output is used to make ferrochrome, which is a mixture of chrome and iron ore,...

Malawi FDI stagnates

The Export Development Fund (EDF) says despite registering moderate gains, Malawi’s foreign direct investments (FDIs) remain below the 10-year average and fail to show consistent momentum in attracting sustainable capital. EDF analysis on FDI...

17 African countries commit to scale up electricity access

Seventeen African governments have committed to reforms and actionable plans to expand electricity access as part of Mission 300—an ambitious partnership led by the World Bank Group and African Development Bank Group that aims to connect 300...

Senate Health Committee Chair vows swift passage of Public Health Bill

The Chairperson of the Senate’s Committee on Health, Senator Debah M. Varpilah of Grand Cape Mount County, has pledged to ensure that the long-awaited Public Health Bill currently before the Senate is brought to the floor for passage in the...

China’s 8-point decision is a development model worthy of copying

Abbey Makoe|Published 1 hour ago 5min THE Communist Party of China (CPC) is setting the bar very high for public office bearers to display exemplary leadership or face the consequences. In a document better-known as the Eight-Point Decision on...

Rare earths just turned even rarer

China suddenly further tightened its grip on the one big power source that runs many critical areas of the modern economy, queering the pitch even more for other countries that were already deeply unsettled by Trump's relentless barrage of...

Enslavement, immolation and an HIV diagnosis: the artists expressing harsh truths with collage

When the artist Sunil Gupta found out he was HIV positive in July 1995, making a collage helped him to process how he felt. He used an image of himself taken on the day of his diagnosis clutching his knees and looking defiantly into the camera,...