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Food security is part of governance: Zinyengerere
Mhondoro-Mubayira ward 27 councillor, Maxwell Zinyengerere has announced that food security complements local governance and therefore leaders should strive to make sure their subjects do not starve....Published: 24 Oct 2024 at 12:14hrs | 131 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Zim Vet targets 100k semen to boost national herd
In their efforts to increase national herd and improve genetics of local populations (cattle) through breeding, Zimbabwe Directorate of Veterinary Services' 2024 to 2025 upcoming bulling season is tar...Published: 15 Oct 2024 at 18:09hrs | 212 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Anthrax outbreak hits Zimbabwe, four other countries
ZIMBABWE and four other countries in southern and eastern Africa are experiencing an anthrax outbreak with the World Health Organisation (WHO) calling for action to end the spread of the disease....Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 03:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rare bacterium behind elephant deaths in Botswana and Zimbabwe
The deaths of 350 elephants in Botswana's Okavango Delta and 35 at the bordering Hwange National Park and Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe in 2020 were due to a rare form of bacteria, scientists have finall...Published: 28 Oct 2023 at 12:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pumula South suburb under Zoonoses threat
ALTHOUGH expansion of cities to create more residential areas for the ever-growing population has ushered in development in Bulawayo and surrounding areas, the same is fuelling human-wildlife conflict...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Hollywood-based Zimbabwean actor visits Victoria Falls
Hollywood Zimbabwean actor and star of multiple American film productions, Tongayi Anorld Chirisa visited Victoria Falls during the first week of February 2023.Mbano Manor boutique hotel - ren...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 08:55hrs | 7 | by Shelton Muchena
Mr President, patriotism cannot be legislated
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, with the noise surrounding the "sanctions on Zimbabwe" narrative increasing - as we draw closer to the October 25 "Sadc Anti Sanctions ...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 06:01hrs | | by Tendai Mbofana
Mnangagwa to donate 2,25m road-runner chicks to 4 provinces
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to distribute 2,25 million four-week-old chicks to 225 000 households in Matabeleland North, South, the Midlands and Masvingo provinces in the next three years....Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Who is behind the biohazard threat in Ukraine?
From the very beginning of Russia's military operation in Ukraine, the United States has unleashed a massive campaign to accuse Moscow of all sorts of crimes.Protecting the civilian population...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biological lab found in Ukraine
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova commented on the issue of biological activity in Ukrainian biological laboratories.We confirm that, during the special military operat...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 05:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Uninspected meat floods butcheries
Some farmers and butchers are selling condemned meat from livestock affected by diseases such as January disease and anthrax, instead of burning the carcasses. Although cases of tick-borne diseases ar...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Can we use ZUMBANI A traditional medicine for treatment of COVID19?
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as "the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultu...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 18:15hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Farmer co-operation important for disease control
A FARMER training session in Manicaland held recently revealed to me that our communities are almost the same with regards their approach to animal health matters.One area visited has endemic ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:47hrs | | by Dumisani Nsingo
Rhodesian chemical-biological war crimes
As Zimbabwe celebrates its 39th year of Independence, as Africans we have either chosen to ignore or have been brainwashed to forget the terrible things white Rhodesians did to our own freedom fighter...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Sifelani Tsiko
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 | | by Staff Reporter
'Zimbabwe faces prospect of a drought'
ZIMBABWE'S crop and livestock production will be negatively affected by delays in rainfall being experienced in the 2018/19 season, a food security report by the United States Agency for International...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 07:04hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Heavy tax on beef'
ZIMBABWE'S beef industry is heavily taxed and Government needs to review downwards, streamline compliance costs to create room for growth in the sector and enable livestock farmers to realise high ear...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA hunters to shoot 2000 Zambian hippos
South African hunters will take part in the slaughter of 2 000 hippos in the pristine Luangwa Valley in Zambia. This follows a shock move by the Zambian government, which overturned a 2016 decision to...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 14:33hrs | 1 | by Janine Avery
Zimbabwe struggling to contain livestock diseases
GOVERNMENT is struggling to mobilise adequate resources to contain livestock diseases such as foot-and-mouth (FMD), which it needs to eradicate to be allowed to export beef to the European Union (EU),...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ebola feared in Hwange
ABOUT 50 people from Change, Dinde and Nekabandama in Hwange District, Matabeleland North have been hospitalised at Lukosi Hospital and other surrounding health institutions after complaining of a rar...Published: 21 May 2017 at 16:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Eating hippo meat backfires in Binga
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has recorded nine cases of suspected human anthrax from the individuals who ate meat from dead hippos at Mlibizi in Binga.The ministry has been ca...Published: 19 Apr 2017 at 15:28hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
More questions than answers as Kruger Park continues shooting buffalo
Confused explanations at a public meeting in Skukuza on Saturday are concerning stakeholders as the Kruger National Park forges ahead with its program of shooting buffalo as part of a sustainable offt...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 11:08hrs | 2 | by Adam Cruise
Islamic State terrorists make inroads into Kenya
Nairobi - Recent arrests show the Islamic State's growing presence in East Africa, where they are recruiting young Kenyans for jihad abroad and raising fears some of them will return to threaten the c...Published: 02 Jul 2016 at 08:40hrs | | by AFP
Improving Livelihoods through the control of animal diseases
Harare - The European Union and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have signed a new agreement aimed at improving food and livelihoods security and resilience of smallho...Published: 19 Apr 2016 at 13:49hrs | | by Leonard Makombe
Anthrax kills 169 cattle
AT LEAST 27 people have been infected with anthrax in Makoni District since the beginning of the rainy season after consuming contaminated meat.All the victims were successfully treated, while...Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 07:48hrs | | by Lovemore Kadzura
Umzingwane anthrax 'contained'
THE government has suspended a ban on the movement of animals from Umzingwane district following last month's anthrax outbreak, saying the situation was under control.Last month, the governmen...Published: 15 Jan 2016 at 05:29hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Cattle prices fall
Farmers are complaining that private abattoirs are offering farmers in drought-stricken areas non-viable prices for their livestock. Most farmers have heeded Government's call to reduce their herds by...Published: 09 Jan 2016 at 06:56hrs | | by Elita Chikwati
1 300 cattle killed by drought
CHIPINGE'S resource poor smallholder farmers are accruing huge livestock losses due to drought and diseases, with the latest statistics indicating that more than 1 300 cattle have died in the past few...Published: 02 Jan 2016 at 10:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Severe anthrax outbreak hits Matabeleland South
A severe anthrax outbreak in Umzingwane has wiped a herd of 55 cattle and left thousands of other animals at risk of contracting the deadly disease.48 people have also been treated of anthrax ...Published: 22 Dec 2015 at 12:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo nurse could have contracted anthrax
A Bulawayo nurse is feared to have contracted anthrax following the recent outbreak of the disease in Matabeleland South where it infected 48 people and killed 55 head of cattle. A total of 4,...Published: 22 Dec 2015 at 08:27hrs | | by Marvelous Moyo
US ships live anthrax to S Korea
The US military accidentally sent live anthrax samples to as many as nine labs across the country and to a US military base in South Korea, the Pentagon says.Twenty-two military personnel at t...Published: 28 May 2015 at 13:49hrs | | by BBC
Bilharzia disease rampant in Zimbabwe
The Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC), says 57 out of the country's 63 districts are prone to the deadly bilharzia disease which, if untreated, could cause infertility and other health complic...Published: 25 Jan 2015 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Anthrax outbreak leaves 10 in Hospital
At least 10 people were hospitalized while nine cattle died from anthrax in Chipinge District, Department of Veterinary Services director in the Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigati...Published: 07 Jan 2015 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Will Mujuru and her cabal go down without a fight?
ASSASSINATION attempts on newly appointed Zanu-PF second secretary and the country's Vice President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa point to a period of unrest in Zanu-PF as it almost unlikely th...Published: 11 Dec 2014 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Anthrax outbreak, 25 cattle die
MATABELELAND SOUTH - THE recent anthrax outbreak that hit Zhukwe area in Gwanda killing at least 25 cattle left about three people under medical care, the state broadcaster ZBC reported today....Published: 03 Oct 2014 at 15:07hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
Anthrax kills 15 cattle, spreads to humans
More than 15 cattle died in Karoi last week in an anthrax outbreak amid fears the disease might have spread to humans who consumed the meat.Although no official confirmation could be immediate...Published: 08 Dec 2013 at 03:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man arrested for sending Obama a poisonous letter
A 45-year-old father of four from Mississippi was arrested on Wednesday in a scheme to kill US President Barack Obama with a poisoned letter.The letter to Obama contained deadly ricin, accord...Published: 18 Apr 2013 at 17:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Villagers contract anthrax after consuming infected meat
SEVERAL villagers in Masvosva, Makoni District contracted anthrax after butchering infected cattle and some could be endangering their lives by depending on unscientific methods to cure the hemorrhag...Published: 09 Jan 2013 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farmers urged to vaccinate livestock
The Division of Veterinary Field Services says it is putting in place mechanisms to reduce the impact of livestock diseases such as black leg and anthrax as the rainy season approaches, the ZBC News r...Published: 02 Nov 2011 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Anthrax outbreak in Tsholotsho
An outbreak of anthrax has been reported in two areas of Tsholotsho district with 34 cattle reportedly having died in the past week.In a telephone interview yesterday, the Tsholotsho district ...Published: 09 Oct 2011 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
S. African terror threat suspect due in court
A Zimbabwean-born South African businessman living west of Pretoria, South Africa evoked the wrath of international law-enforcement agencies when he allegedly threatened to unleash an unprecedented bi...Published: 14 Feb 2011 at 06:20hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
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