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Mohadi implores councils to promote waste recycling
FORMER Vice President Kembo Mohadi says recycling plays an important part in waste management, which is missing in local authorities as they struggle to manage waste collection.Officially open...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga pays tribute to Mnangagwa
THE national clean up exercise being done on the first Friday of each calendar month following a declaration by President Mnangagwa has heightened the country's levels of hygiene and cleanliness, Vice...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 00:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns companies over environmental pollution
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday warned industrialists against polluting water bodies by depositing untreated effluent.Speaking at joint commemorations to mark the National Clean-Up exer...Published: 02 Mar 2019 at 10:13hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa spells need for clean, healthy cities
President Mnangagwa yesterday urged Zimbabweans to develop and maintain healthy cities, towns and resort areas attractive to investors and visitors by desisting from the culture of littering. ...Published: 02 Mar 2019 at 07:31hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa exhorts Zimbabweans on environmental issues
President Mnangagwa has urged Zimbabweans to double their efforts in tackling the challenges of climate change and environmental degradation which are threatening food security and nutrition. ...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Building Africa's scientific talent
Ten years ago, South African physicist Neil Turok made a bold prediction: the world's next Einstein will be from Africa. A decade later, it is worth considering whether the continent is any closer to ...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:16hrs | | by Daniel Mundeva
AFR100 to restore 100 million hectares of land in Africa
African countries have launched African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100), a Pan-African, country-led effort to restore 100 million hectares of degraded and deforested landscapes by 203...Published: 07 Dec 2015 at 14:26hrs | | by Andrew Mambondiyani in Paris, France
Women empowerment the answer to Zimbabwe's corruption problems
"The most common way people give up their power, is by thinking they don't have any" - Alice Walker.As corruption in Zimbabwe continues to escalate to shocking proportions,its contagiousne...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 08:56hrs | 8 | by Minenhle Gumede
From One Vice President to another - Salarygate
Cry the beloved Country! How sad it is that at a time when the people of Zimbabwe are looking forward to solutions from their leaders in terms of the economic and social hardships, they have t...Published: 12 Feb 2014 at 11:07hrs | | by Emilia Mukaratirwa
Train up a child to solve the problems we can't solve - Masiyiwa
I learnt a principle from King David in the bible, which is that we must have the wisdom and courage, and above all the humility, to appreciate that there are some problems, which we can only addres...Published: 12 Nov 2013 at 02:09hrs | | by Strive Masiyiwa
Influencing policy is 'not a numbers game'
More women in Africa enter public office, but still wield little power "If you want to be influential in the political arena, you need to influence...Published: 07 Aug 2013 at 18:42hrs | 1 | by Jocelyne Sambira
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
Title: The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of ZimbabweAuthor: Peter Godwin...Published: 30 Jan 2012 at 04:48hrs | | by Emmanuel Sigauke
Eighteenth African Union Summit to hold on the theme: 'Boosting intra-African trade'
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The 18th Ordinary Session of the Summit of the African Union (AU) is scheduled to take place from 23 to 30 January 2012 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Holding under the th...Published: 11 Jan 2012 at 05:19hrs | | by APO
In south of the Sahara, echoes of the northern revolutions
As the "Arab Spring" of mass protests for democracy that is roiling much of North Africa and the Middle East slips past mid-year, activists and power holders across Africa continue to follow the unfol...Published: 24 Oct 2011 at 12:58hrs | | by Africa Renewal editorial team
Wangari Maathai, the woman of trees, dies
Kenya's Wangari Muta Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, environmentalist and human rights activist, died 25 September at age 71. A mother of three, she devoted her life to promoting the envir...Published: 09 Oct 2011 at 06:20hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor
Nobel Peace Prize Award: 1901-Present
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the person "who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and prom...Published: 04 Oct 2011 at 12:16hrs | | by Ryan Williams
Wangari Maathai, Nobel laureate, has died
Nairobi - Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai has died in hospital where she was undergoing treatment for cancer, her organisation the Green Belt Movement said on Mon...Published: 26 Sep 2011 at 05:21hrs | | by -
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