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Zimbabwe students scoop international awards for moot court

A history-making team of Zimbabwean high school students that became world and European moot court competition champions has been widely praised in a country where the education system is beset by poor funding, lack of materials and teachers’ strikes

The Independent UK

Fearless Zimbabwe, De Leede-inspired Dutch reach T20 World Cup

Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) (AFP) - Hosts Zimbabwe and the Netherlands filled the last two places for the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia by winning their qualifying tournament semi-finals in Bulawayo on Friday.

AFP

Netherlands, Zimbabwe qualify for ICC World Cup T20

Netherlands and Zimbabwe booked their places in the ICC T20 World Cup after seeing off USA and Papua & New Guinea respectively in semifinals of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier B

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Zimbabwe, Netherlands qualify for Twenty20 World Cup

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Papua New Guinea reach semi-finals despite dramatic loss

Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) (AFP) - Papua New Guinea reached the Twenty20 World Cup qualifying tournament semi-finals in Zimbabwe despite a dramatic last-ball Group B loss to Hong Kong on Thursday.

AFP

Six ways to improve HIV prevention pill uptake among young women in Zimbabwe

Adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa have a very high risk of acquiring HIV. The latest global AIDS update report suggests that a staggering six out of seven new infections among 15-19-year-olds in sub-Saharan Africa are among girls.

The Conversation

Williams stars as Zimbabwe, US reach T20 qualifying semi-finals

Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) (AFP) - Former captain Sean Williams top scored with 57 as hosts Zimbabwe reached the semi-finals of the Twenty20 World Cup qualifying tournament in Bulawayo on Tuesday along with the United States.

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Raza stars as Zimbabwe sink Singapore in T20 World Cup qualifier

Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) (AFP) - Sikandar Raza struck 87 off 40 balls as hosts Zimbabwe defeated Singapore by 111 runs on Monday to make a great start in their bid to qualify for the 2022 Twenty20 World Cup in Australia.

AFP

More means less for Zimbabweans battling hyperinflation

Harare (AFP) - With runaway inflation eating into incomes, staple foods have vanished from the tables of Zimbabweans like Emina Chishangwe, who lives in a poor dormitory town south of the capital Harare.

AFP

‘It’s a hard sport to leave’: Derek Chisora suppresses ‘sad’ thoughts of retirement as Kubrat Pulev awaits

Exclusive interview: The heavyweight on being a ‘first-aider’ in Zimbabwe, training with ‘racists’ in London, and his rematch with Pulev

The Independent UK

Ndabaningi Sithole: Zimbabwe's forgotten intellectual and leader

Ndabaningi Sithole was one of the founding fathers of the modern state of Zimbabwe in southern Africa. In August 1963, he became the first president of the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu), the militant liberation organisation that fought against white minority rule that he led for a decade before being…

The Conversation

Book on Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe's legacy has many flaws

Development studies professor David Moore’s new book, Mugabe’s Legacy: Coups, Conspiracies and the Conceits of Power in Zimbabwe, attempts to understand the legacy of Robert Mugabe, who led Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2017, when he lost power in a military coup.

The Conversation

The deadly quest by Zimbabwe’s poorest for a few grams of golden hope

The clinking sound of metal tools hacking against rocks along the dry riverbed shatters the serenity of the pristine Bhuka mountains of Masvingo, Zimbabwe. A small group of women and children dressed in shabby brown clothes busily dig in the rich soil, using the most rudimentary utensils to look for…

Radio France Internationale

Commentary: Under Biden, US promotes abortion abroad

Even as pro-life Americans celebrate the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Biden administration has been busy promoting abortion abroad.

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‘Our only livelihood’: Zimbabwean fishing communities fear for future as stocks dwindle

The country’s first women’s fishing co-operative has made a good living on Lake Kariba for a decade, but global heating, overfishing and lower rainfall now mean that catches are becoming increasingly sparse

France 24

UN Security Council renews mandate of MINUSMA peacekeeping force

The UN Security Council has voted to renew the mandate of its peacekeeping force in Mali despite the loss of air support from France. Also, healthcare workers in Zimbabwe are heading out on strike, demanding a tenfold increase of their wages and threatening to strike again if their demands are…

Al Jazeera

Investors excited by Zimbabwe plan to mint gold to curb inflation

President Mnangagwa is reportedly desperate to shed some of the legacy economic problems his administration inherited.

Reuters

Zimbabwe healthcare workers temporarily call off wage strike

Zimbabwean healthcare workers halted a five-day-old pay strike and returned to work on Saturday, but union leaders warned they would resume the walkout if the government failed to make an improved wage offer within two weeks.

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Radio France Internationale

S2,EP21: Nigeria's okada ban, Sudan's mental health, & child gold mining in Zimbabwe

This week, Africa Calling podcast brings you audio-rich stories and voices from the African continent with our African correspondents. In Lagos, the okada ban is giving commuters and taxi drivers a major headache; Sudan's youth are on the streets for the revolution but it's taking a toll on their mental…

The Conversation

Nigeria's latest lithium find: some key questions answered

High-grade lithium has been discovered in Nigeria. In 2019 the total production volume of lithium, not high grade, in Nigeria reached 50 metric tons This is small compared to Zimbabwe which produced 1,200 metric tons the same year. The Conversation Africa’s Wale Fatade asked geologist Ibrahim Garba for his insights.

The Independent UK

Nurses at Zimbabwe's public hospitals strike for better pay

Striking nurses and other health workers have brought Zimbabwe’s government hospitals to a near standstill, straining a once vibrant public health system now plagued by a lack of medicines and basic supplies such as gloves

Al Jazeera

Zimbabwe healthcare workers strike over wages, inflation crisis

Public health workers and other civil servants are demanding salaries in US dollars as inflation hits 132 percent.

Reuters

Zimbabwe health workers strike after rejecting 100% pay rise

Zimbabwean health workers went on strike on Monday after rejecting a 100% wage hike offer last week, pressing their demand for payment in U.S. dollars as the local currency slumps.

The Independent UK

British Army veteran ‘living in fear’ as he fights deportation threat after 20 years living in UK

Father-of-two Joram Nechironga hopes to launch judicial review against Home Office decision

The Independent UK

British Army veteran ‘living in fear’ as he fights deportation threat

Joram Nechironga, who served in Iraq, is hoping to launch a judicial review against the Home Office decision.

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