News about Zimbabwe that you can use
Two Chicago men who promised to lobby United States President Barack Obama, a former Illinois senator, to lift sanctions against Zimbabwe were paid US$90 000 in Botswana as an initial down payment but failed to make any dent.
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Bulawayo textile company Archer Clothing expects production to rise by 40 percent by year-end with capacity utilisation increasing to a similar margin from the current 25 percent as new owners push to bring the company to full assembly.
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A photograph of two South Sudanese children, with names listed directly below, sits adjacent the headline “South Sudan’s Boy Soldiers Swap Schoolbooks for Kalashnikovs”.
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The speed with which the current Ebola epidemic swept across parts of West Africa, claiming over 3 000 lives in the first six months and affecting millions more, exposed the extreme fragility of primary health care facilities in the region, the disproportionate impact on particularly vulnerable groups, as well as the increasingly globalized implications of the outbreak.
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Zimbabwe’s gold producers are lobbying government to lower the energy tariff in a bid to ramp up production, saying the current regime will have impact on output on the back of tapering bullion prices, a leading miner has said.
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Bindura Nickel Corporation says it will keep its Shangani Mine under care and maintenance due to high restart costs and weakening commodity prices as the group focuses on raising $26 million to restart its base metal smelting complex and other projects.
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Air Zimbabwe’s small aircraft fleet might have an average age of 22 years but is considered young in terms of its use and the national carrier plans to expend it before considering renewing it, the chief executive officer said today.
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Beverage maker Delta Corporation says second quarter lager beer volumes fell 29 percent below the same period last year, pushing half-year revenue 4 percent lower and reflecting weakening consumer demand as the economy remains depressed.
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