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Mozambique moves to fight banana disease

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Mozambique says plans are underway to roll out an ambitious three-year plan to contain a deadly pathogenic form of the fusarium banana wilt. The ministry...

Botswana refuses to register sex workers’ association

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Botswana’s Department of Civil and National Registration has refused to register an association for sex workers, APA learnt here on Tuesday. Sisonke Association Botswana...

Zimbabwe War Vets threaten war against Green Fuel over land

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Zimbabwe war veterans, traditional leaders and ordinary villagers in Chisumbanje have demanded that Green Fuel compensate them for land taken by the Ethanol project...

Mugabe ‘ run out of ideas’ to fix the economy

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Harare - Zimbabwe's former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Monday that long-ruling President Robert Mugabe had "run out of ideas" to fix the...

Dirty, dusty Zambia International Trade Fair

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Something needs to be done about the organisation of the Zambia International Trade Fair in Ndola. We share Ndola district commissioner Rebby Chanda's disappointment with...

Geingob: I am fit to be President of Namibia

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THE Swapo Party vice-president, Hage Geingob, says he is healthy enough to be the next President of Namibia despite fears to the contrary. The Prime...

Queues swell at Beitbridge border

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Zimbabwe - The volume of traffic has drastically increased at Beitbridge Border Post as travellers now spend on average four hours in queues to...

Zimbabwean man with three wives rapes step-daughter

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Zimbabwe - A Polygamous Binga man who has an insatiable appetite for sex last Friday began serving a 10-year jail sentence for raping his...

German MP sparks reparations anger

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Angry OvaHerero and Nama communities have vowed to continue demanding reparations for colonial atrocities, saying they do not fear the close relationship between the...

115 ghost employees on Botswana Govt. payroll

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Botswana - The Directorate of Public Service Management (DPSM) has found close to 115 ghost employees on the government payroll. Speaking before the Public Accounts...