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Dr Tedros Adhanom Review Correspondent — About 400 million people — one out of every 17 of the world’s citizens — lack access to essential health services.
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Where there is no vision, the people perish. . . Proverbs 29:18 Vision is a gift from God. When God gave vision to you, it was given to a certain part of your body which is not your eye. Vision is never found in your eye. What you find in your eye is sight, you […]
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Obert Chifamba — If you’re curious where the phrase “raining cats and dogs” came from, add your name to the long list. Some think it originated in the 1500s, when roofs were commonly thatched and heavy downpours could send stray pets pummelling through rooftops.
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Cheryl Hendricks: Correspondent THE impending departure of Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma from the key continental position of chair of the African Union Commission (AUC) has generated a highly contested election campaign for a new leader.
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Jill W. Sheffield and Peter A. Singer This year, the World Health Organisation will elect a new Director-General. Last September, WHO member states nominated six candidates for the position: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Flavia Bustreo, Philippe Douste-Blazy, David Nabarro, Sania Nishtar, and Miklós Szócska. On January 25, the WHO Executive Board will shortlist three candidates; and […]
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David Mungoshi: Shelling the Nuts Many years ago when I was a clueless schoolboy making my way through primary school, my father travelled to our rural home with a man that we called our family photographer.
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Correspondent Last week the city of Madrid, Spain, was a hive of intrigue and obfuscation — both conscious and accidental — into which cocktail has been stirred (but not quite shaken), a dash of possibly “innocent” deceit and some outright sleight-of-hand.
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The prolonged and often heavy rains now falling are causing those who see doom in every Zimbabwean event to proclaim a disaster as serious as last season’s severe drought. They are wrong. And they are wrong by several orders of magnitude. Above average rains do cause flooding and severe
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Stanely Mushava Literature Today As Barack Obama goes home to write his memoirs, he will be confronted by two starkly contrasting images of his White House tenure. With supporters sacrilegiously branding him a modern saint comparable to Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jnr, he will be easily inducted into the circle of
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Janet Eom Correspondent US President Donald Trump’s transition team has circulated a list of questions on Africa to the State Department and Pentagon. At the top of the list are two queries about the United States and China and their relative presence on that continent: “How does US business compete with other nations in Africa? […]
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Jason Burke and Philip Oltermannin It has become known as the first genocide of the 20th century: tens of thousands of men, women and children shot, starved, and tortured to death by German troops as they put down rebellious tribes in what is now Namibia . For more than a century the atrocities have been […]
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Charity Ruzvidzo Every time Aldridge Munyoro recalls his primary school days, he is haunted by statements one of his teachers repeatedly yelled at him: “You are an albino, a waste of my time. You will never amount to anything!” But at 28, Munyoro, out of determination and perseverance, is a successful man, and
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Christopher Farai Charamba The Reader As a lover of history I have always been sceptical of the myth that Africans did not write, that their history was confined to oral traditions and archaeological evidence. This was a historiography peddled by those who sought to create a specific narrative for the African continent that made it
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IT has been quite an eventful week for our Warriors —from charming the world with a stylish performance in the 2-2 draw against Algeria to being outplayed, in their second afcon Group B match, by a rampant Senegal — at the 2017 Nations Cup finals in Gabon.
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Zanu-pf National Political Commissar, Cde Saviour Kasukuwere (SK), has been accused of abusing his position for factional ends, and has been accused of being unfit for the lofty office of national political commissar. Our Political Editor Tichaona Zindoga (TZ) caught up with Cde Kasukuwere to talk about this and other issues. The following are excerpts […]
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