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Religious groups in Beitbridge are teaming up with cops to fight crime because housebreaking and robberies keep spiking around the border town. The Pastors' Fraternal is running community meetings at the ward level to tackle sexual violence, drug problems with teenagers, and theft cases that get...

Zimbabwe's corporate scene needs to start caring about environmental and social governance metrics if they want investor money, and the central bank is pushing a certification program to make it happen. Companies that meet sustainability benchmarks get better loan rates and access to...

India's ambassador to Zimbabwe said his country wants to team up harder on agriculture by sharing tech about AI farming, climate-proof crops, and mechanization. Bramha Kumar told a conference in Bulawayo that India feeds 1.5 billion people with advanced seed systems and IoT sensors that help...

Zimbabwe's agriculture minister went off at a conference in Bulawayo about how calling sorghum and millet small grains is completely backwards. Anxious Masuka said the label makes drought-resistant crops sound unimportant when they actually pack better nutrients than corn and handle climate...

Zimbabwe and China threw a ceremony in Harare to hand out friendship scholarships and celebrate essay winners who wrote about the 45-year relationship between both countries. Chinese Ambassador Zhou Ding brought up how General Josiah Tongogara trained in China during the 1960s, and he recently...

Zimbabwe's provincial minister for Matabeleland South wants everyone to pitch in to build fancy infrastructure that gets the region closer to middle-income status. Albert Nguluvhe said the new Gwanda Travel Centre proves what happens when the government teams up with private investors through...

Zimbabwe's government just gutted licensing fees for tourism businesses and made the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority the main regulator for everything. Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said they slashed local authority permits by half, dropped five-star hotel registration from over five grand to two...

Matabeleland South is asking for custom HIV programs because their situation hits different than the rest of Zimbabwe. The province sits at 15 percent HIV prevalence, which destroys the national average of 9.4 percent, and officials blame the border crossings at Beitbridge and Plumtree, where...

A cashier from Zvishavane pocketed over thirteen grand from his employer instead of dropping it at the bank, and the court handed him three years for the stunt. Danda Tinashe Tinotenda was supposed to collect cash from registers at Farm and City Centre and deposit the money into two ZB Bank...

Zimbabwe's government is handing out free farming supplies across Matabeleland South Province, and people are hyped because they can actually plant on time for once. Farmers at Guyu Business Centre in Gwanda District got maize seeds, fertilizer, and chemicals through the Presidential Inputs...

Zimbabwe's big radio stations are sending their playlist data to help judge the National Arts Merit Awards, and the awards people said Power FM, ZiFM Stereo, Star FM, Skyz Metro FM, and Radio Zimbabwe all handed over their charts. The event drops at Harare International Conference Centre under...

A company in Zimbabwe that runs hotels, trucking operations, and hardware stores used a soccer tournament to trick dudes into getting their prostates checked. Elgiboh Group threw the event at Bulawayo Chiefs Village with teams like Highlanders Legends and Chicken Inn Supporters, knowing guys...

A group called VICAZ threw a seminar in Bulawayo to tackle the substance abuse problem hitting communities across Matabeleland. The crew brought in people from around the region to figure out how to stop kids from getting hooked on drugs. Their national boss, Onwel Sisimai, said the group is...

Zimbabwe cops are kicking off their big holiday safety push to keep highways clear and criminals off the streets. Commissioner Paul Nyathi from the national police said officers will meet with transport companies at every level to make sure people can move around without getting wrecked. They...

Zimbabwe's president told military graduates that the government keeps working on training programs to fill skill gaps and boost security across Africa. Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa spoke at a ceremony where 74 officers from nine countries finished their Joint Command and Staff Course at the...

Ntcheu cops grabbed a 24-year-old guy named Samuel Maonga after he allegedly made two kids eat human waste with their mouths. The boys, aged 9 and 11, had been hunting in the bush and used an uncleared field as a bathroom, which set the suspect off. He came back the next day, dragged them to the...

Wishes grew up bouncing between Zomba, Dedza, Lilongwe, and Mzuzu, which taught him how to build an identity instead of just getting handed one. His hip-hop journey started at Michiru View's Pro-Active student club in 2008 alongside artists like Blacka Fella, Martse, and King Henry Melon, and...

Vice President Jane Mayemu Ansah told Cabinet ministers they need to stop treating policy meetings like checkbox exercises and start delivering actual results for broke Malawians. She laid out how the country is dealing with foreign exchange shortages, fuel problems, and an economy that's worse...

Dr. Andrew Nankwenya just cut the ribbon on Diplomat Private Hospital in Zomba to keep Malawians from flying abroad for serious medical care. The facility handles cancer patients, kidney issues, stomach problems, expecting mothers, and other conditions with help from doctors flying in from...

Malawi's Vice President Jane Mayemu Ansah hosted government officials and development partners for a networking dinner right before the Cabinet Retreat kicked off. She thanked President Arthur Peter Mutharika for letting her run the event and said the whole thing was meant to get leaders talking...