Harare, February 5, 2013: The United States Embassy on Tuesday presented a special garbage bin to the Harare City Council as a gesture to its commitment to a clean environment in Harare. “I am thrilled to be here to make this small token which represents our interest in community-led solutions to waste management,” said Ambassador Bruce Wharton during a handover ceremony witnessed by members of the public, environmentalists, and Harare Mayor Muchadeyi Masunda at Harare Gardens on February 5. The donation is one part of an eighteen month campaign by Embassy staff and their families to “green” the embassy and... Continue Reading
By Yolanda Ndlovu – Harare, January 31, 2013: A cabinet minister wants Zimbabweans to rekindle the conversation proposed by the inclusive government in 2009 about adopting the democratic developmental state to spur economic development. “We need to raise a discourse of a democratic developmental state, we need politics of development not politics of power,” said Honorable Gorden Moyo (in attached picture), Minister of State Enterprises and Parastatals, during a Food for Thought discussion session held at the United States Embassy’s Public Affairs Section on Tuesday. “It is naïve to say that we are a democracy when people are hungry and unemployed, hence... Continue Reading
By Special Correspondent, Dar es Salaam – A week after his country submitted its Country Review Report in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under the auspices of the African Union governance assessment Mechanism-the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) has promised to work on all the recommendations from his peers. President Kikwete and Michael Sata of Zambia Country Review Reports’ were reviewed by African Heads of State and Government participating in the APRM process last Saturday the 26th January, 2013. Speaking in Dar es Salaam on Friday evening in his scheduled monthly address to the nation, President Kikwete told the nation that Tanzania has... Continue Reading
…project in River Cess County – On Saturday, January 26, the non-profit organization FACE Africa held a ground-breaking ceremony in Semgblog’s Town, Timbo District, River Cess County to officially kick-off the organization’s County-by-County initiative. Through its County-by-County program, FACE Africa plans to construct approximately 250 clean water points in River Cess County by 2017. The initiative which was inaugurated in Semblog’s Town, home of the district’s Paramount Chief, will provide complete water coverage to the county, benefiting over 60,000 residents, and will ensure that River Cess meets the Liberian Government’s 250 persons per safe water point standard. The first 5 handpumps... Continue Reading
iROKOtv, the world’s largest online distributor of Nigerian movies, announces the launch of a brand new mobile app for the platform, in an exclusive partnership with global phone manufacturer, Nokia. The app has been designed to give Nollywood fans and iROKOtv PLUS subscribers access to Nollywood movies on the go, and will be accessible on the Nokia Lumia Windows Phone 8. The iROKOtv mobile app is designed to give Nokia customers, Nollywood fans and iROKOtv PLUS subscribers access to their favourite movies and will be available for free on the Nokia Windows Phone 8 devices for the first three months,... Continue Reading
