THE United Nations, through the Zimbabwe UN Development Assistance Framework (ZUNDAF), has since 2012 pumped US$1,6 billion into Zimbabwe in development grants supporting the provision of social and public services as well as capacity building. (more…)

FINANCE Minister and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa said on Thursday the country’s economy would grow by 2,7 percent in 2016, after he rolled out measures aimed at addressing a deepening economic crisis. (more…)

  ZIMBABWE lost about 24 000 elephants to poachers over the past 20 years, prejudicing the hard currency starved economy of an estimated US$3 billion in sport hunting fees alone, the Financial Gazette can report. Poachers have become a menace within Zimbabwe’s animal sanctuaries where they are running…

ENERGY and Power Development Minister, Samuel Undenge, is in a fix over a lawsuit that he faces, if his Ministry goes ahead to implement its knee-jerk decision to unilaterally ban electric geysers with the hope of saving electricity, the Financial Gazette can reveal. (more…)

GOVERNMENT has abandoned its controversial urban tolling plan following a huge public outcry from citizens, who felt the move could further burden an already over-saddled motoring public, the Financial Gazette has learnt. (more…)

HUMAN rights activists argue that calling it prostitution is derogatory because it is a profession like any other occupation. Instead, they advocate it should be called “commercial sex work”, to give respect to those involved in this vocation. Indeed, commercial sex work is becoming highly sophisticated and immensely…

  THE Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) said on Wednesday international poaching syndicates were behind a scourge of poaching that has afflicted Zimbabwe in the two years. (more…)

DISTINGUISHED academic and University of Zimbabwe (UZ) senior lecturer Vimbai Gukwe Chivaura has died. He passed away at Avenues Clinic in Harare on Tuesday morning where he had been admitted after being diagnosed with liver cancer. (more…)

THE largest-ever relocation of black rhinos across national borders has established a breeding population in the Botswana’s Okavango Delta, according to Wilderness Holdings Ltd, a eco-tourism safari operator that helped organize the program. (more…)

DHL Express, the global logistics firm, said Monday it had launched a programme to bolster Zimbabwean small to medium scale enterprises (SMEs) to pursue export markets. (more…)