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UK overtakes China as second-largest US Treasury holder
China's recorded holdings of US Treasuries have fallen below those of the UK for the first time since the start of the century, underlining a shift in Beijing's management of its foreign reserves....Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 19:41hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Health ministry in budget quandary
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has called for a supplementary budget to mitigate the impact of the withdrawal of United States funding, particularly towards HIV and Aids programmes. The funding...Published: 27 Mar 2025 at 06:18hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Voice of America dismantled over propaganda claims
US President Donald Trump has signed an order to strip back federally funded news organisation Voice of America, accusing it of being "anti-Trump" and "radical".A White House statement said th...Published: 17 Mar 2025 at 10:15hrs | 876 | by Staff reporter
USAID staff told to shred and burn classified documents
Staff at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have been told to shred and burn classified documents and personnel files.The request raised alarm among employees and labour group...Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 10:28hrs | 1083 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe secures 6 month stock of ARVs
Zimbabwe has secured enough antiretroviral (ARV) drug stock to last for the next six months, with additional procurement efforts already in progress to ensure supplies are sustained until the end of t...Published: 20 Feb 2025 at 18:30hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Trump exposes USAid as regime change tool
In a stunning development, the United States administration under President Donald Trump has admitted that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has been used as a conduit for regime cha...Published: 05 Feb 2025 at 11:44hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
US ambassador to Zimbabwe moans over CIO tails
United States (US) Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Pamela Tremont, has reportedly raised concerns with the Zimbabwean government over alleged state surveillance of her activities, signaling a deepening of ten...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 07:14hrs | 2107 | by Staff reporter
A 'sick man' of the Sadc region
These activities, as described in the Sadc statement, served to intimidate voters by suggesting that it would be easy to determine who voted for which party. Following the elections, the head of the A...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 06:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
No one will whip anyone's behind
AS a matter of principle and decency, the Bishop, as a man of the cloth, usually doesn't obsess about individuals as much as he fetishes discussing issues of substance affecting our community and civi...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Bishop L
The bane of deadbeat intellectuals
Talent seems to come with more than its fair share of baggage.Most often than not, gifted personalities belong to a pantheon of living gods that wow the world during their time in the limeligh...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 06:58hrs | 15 | by Bishop Lazarus
African is an observer, a subject in vaccine development, says Mutambara
Former deputy prime minister Professor Arthur Mutambara says it is a tragic indictment on all Africans that there is no African country or black-owned company producing a Covid-19 vaccine. "Th...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 20:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US admits Zimbabwe regime change plot
THE United States has unwittingly admitted its hidden hand in regime change efforts in Zimbabwe after its Congress expressed frustrations on continued financial support to political activities, saying...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:19hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
USAID accused of wasting US$ 10 m 'trying to democratise Zimbabwe' - penny has finally dropped in Washington
The proverbial penny has finally drop in Washington: the Americans have finally woken up to the reality they are wasting money trying to democratise Zimbabwe!"In a damning 2020 Festivus report...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:22hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
US wasting millions on Zimbabwe election process - Report
THE United States (US) Senate has predicted Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mngangagwa, would win the 2023 presidential election despite Washington pouring in millions of dollars to democratise the...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'worse-than-Mugabe', says US lawmaker
THE US, through its US Agency for International Development (USAID), is spending US$10 million in efforts to improve Zimbabwe's political process and these include supporting non-governmental organisa...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Spectre of a donor-funded Christmas
AS MANY across the globe get into the swing of Christmas festivities, millions of people in Zimbabwe living on less than US$1 a day are turning to donor agencies and well-wishers for survival....Published: 26 Dec 2020 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
US Ambassador to Harare lays re-engagement cards on the table
WORLD superpower, the United States of America, stands accused of interfering in Zimbabwe's internal political affairs by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, his government and the ruling Zanu-PF party....Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 19:51hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'US to maintain sanctions on Zimbabwe'
THE United States will maintain sanctions on Zimbabwe for as long as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government continues with its human rights abuses which pose a threat to regional stability, a senio...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Honeymoon over for anti-Mnangagwa NGOs
The Aid Coordination Policy approved by Cabinet recently, aimed at ensuring consistency and harmonisation of development partners' activities to promote transparency, will not only promote economic gr...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Beaven Dhliwayo
MDC linked Amnesty International Zimbabwe suspended over corrupt
Amnesty International Zimbabwe, which was exposed in an audit that unearthed serious fraud and mismanagement involving millions of United States dollars has been suspended from its mother body, Amnest...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
US foreign policy prefers Kenya
Kenya is "one of our key friends in Africa - nay, in the world," said a confident, pleased United States (US) assistant secretary of State for African Affairs, Tibor P Nagy, at a May 9 briefing in Was...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:03hrs | 5 | by Pearl Matibe
America impressed with Zimbabwe reforms
Reforms being implemented by the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led Government are positive and a reflection of great urgency to transform the country economically and politically, United States of Amer...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 22:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Massive fraud at Amnesty International Zimbabwe
An audit has unearthed serious fraud and financial mismanagement involving millions of dollars at Amnesty International Zimbabwe. Amnesty, an international human rights organisation that has b...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 22:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
US agency warns of imminent drought in Zimbabwe
The United States Agency for International Development has warned of an imminent drought in Zimbabwe, following delays in rainfall being experienced in the 2018/2019 season.A food security rep...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 18:31hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Cash crisis, blackmarket rates cripple economy
FEWSNET says the macroeconomic environment remains stressed due to cash shortages and high parallel market rates.Uncertainty around the upcoming elections has caused the parallel market rates ...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
US suspends funding for political NGOs ahead of polls
THE United States has suspended funding to several civil society organisations after investigations exposed non-compliance with set principles, and gross abuse of funds meant to oil regime change mano...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
North Korea's cyber army the real threat not nuclear missiles
The global informational space joins particular people the military as well as civil infrastructure. Nowadays there is no regulation in this sphere.This situation creates perfect conditions fo...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zim faces maize output shortfall
Zimbabwe will face a shortfall in maize output in the current 2017/18 season on the back of erratic weather conditions with the hole expected to be plugged by carryover stocks from last season, the Fa...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 06:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Govt growth rate too optimistic'
At least five institutions have since December made much lower projections of this year's economic growth than the 4,5% announced by government.In his 2018 National budget statement, Finance m...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Herald takes a stab at the Daily News after the flopped mass stayaway
On Wednesday, the excitable Daily News, which has been overzealously praying for political violence to precipitate some kind of Arab Spring, ran an Armageddon-like apocalyptic lead story headlined "An...Published: 02 Sep 2016 at 10:32hrs | | by Features Writer
Unleashing the power of Africa's civil society
A Liberian women's peace movement led by 31-year-old Leymah Gbowee did something extraordinary in July 2003 to force Liberian warlords to sign a peace agreement that ended 10 years of a bloody civil w...Published: 13 Aug 2016 at 09:11hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor
Zanu PF failing to contain Mthwakazi pressure
Mthwakazi Republic Party wishes to send a strong message to Zanu PF that they must come out openly when responding to Mthwakazi pressure which they are failing to contain due to continued unwavering c...Published: 27 Apr 2016 at 07:12hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'3 million Zimbabweans face hunger'
An estimated three million Zimbabweans - 23 percent of the country's population - is food insecure in the wake of one of the worst droughts to ever hit Zimbabwe, a government official has said....Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 11:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
US avails $10 million for humanitarian assistance to Zimbabwe
The United States government has provided $10 million dollars in additional humanitarian assistance in response to the critical drought that has hit Zimbabwe. The donation, provided t...Published: 04 Mar 2016 at 15:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hunting revenue decline by 30%
Zimbabwe recorded a 30% decline in revenue from sport hunting since the United States banned all ivory and elephant trophies from Zimbabwe last April, an official said at the end of last month....Published: 18 Feb 2015 at 12:39hrs | 3 | by Adam Cruise
Breaking the glass ceiling: Women agricultural scientists
They are selected because they are - or could be - as good as agricultural scientists anywhere. They are groomed in leadership, and conduct research into problems facing their individual countries...Published: 12 Apr 2014 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Munyaradzi Makoni
Discussing Zimbabwe, without Zimbabwe
EARLY this month, the US government's House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights in Washington DC organised a hearing under the theme "Beyond the Reign ...Published: 09 Dec 2011 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Obi Egbuna
Obama envoy meets SADC on Zimbabwe
It is reported that the United States last week met a high powered Southern African Development Community (Sadc) delegation to discuss concerns about mounting politically motivated arrests and violenc...Published: 02 May 2011 at 12:16hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
Obama envoy meets SADC on Zimbabwe
It is reported that the United States last week met a high powered Southern African Development Community (Sadc) delegation to discuss concerns about mounting politically motivated arrests and violenc...Published: 02 May 2011 at 12:16hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
Food Readily Available in Zimbabwe: US report
Basic foodstuffs are readily available in Zimbabwe's consumer marketplace, says a report by the US-based Famine Early Warning Systems Network, but limited resources especially for house...Published: 03 Mar 2011 at 07:44hrs | | by Byo24News
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