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HARARE – More than 200,000 Zimbabweans have returned home over the past year due to the economic fallout from COVID-19 in countries where they had been working. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is providing nurses to help Zimbabwean officials...
By Vitor Gaspar, Michael Keen, Alexander Klemm, and Paolo Mauro The economic costs of the pandemic have fallen most heavily on those least able to bear them. Governments have taken steps to support people and firms through wage subsidies, unemployment...
Harare – Zimbabwe plans to put 350 000 ha under irrigation in the next three seasons as part of the Accelerated Irrigation Rehabilitation and Development Plan. This was revealed by the Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement,...
Sharon Chikwanha Government will provide tax holidays among other incentives to promote the growth of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises sector which is expected to anchor rural industrialization in Zimbabwe This emerged at the launch of the National MSME Policy 2020-2024...
Sydney Kawadza Water levels in Lake Kariba continue to rise increasing by about 25 percent in the past month, the Zambezi River Authority has said. The authority, however, indicated that a decision to review water allocated to Zimbabwe and Zambia for...
R.W. Johnson Things are moving fast in the jihadist insurgency in the Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique. Clearly aware that the multi-billion dollar gas investment by Total was reaching a critical new phase, the al-Shabaab insurgents quietly infiltrated the nearby town...
Herzel Mushayabasa/Eddison Mapani/Sharon Chikwanha Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube has challenged the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority to raise at least $400b through its various activities including improved electronic cargo tracking system. To support this, the country will speed up the...
Sydney Kawadza Calls for expansion of the Debt Service Suspension Initiative continue to grow louder with several heads of state and government, the United Nations and heads of multilateral development finance institutions adding their voice to the plea. This follows a...
Reason Razao The tourism sector in Zimbabwe plunged by 90 percent in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic which led to travel restrictions and national lockdowns. Zimbabwe benefits significantly from tourism which in 2019 generated a total of US$1.25 billion with...

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