The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has appointed Utoile Silaigwana as substantive Chief Elections Officer with immediate effect. Until now, Silaigwana had been acting Chief Elections Officer having taken over from Constance Chigwamba in March last year. Zec chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba made the announcement in a statement on Wednesday. “The Zimbabwe electoral commission is pleased […]
The formal launch of the African Continental Free Trade (AfCFTA) area here on Sunday by African Union marks a turning point in the free movement of people and goods between member states and paving way for development of the continent, officials said. The 55th extraordinary summit of the African Union Heads of State saw the […]
The 55th extraordinary summit of Heads of States of the African Union opened here on Saturday with a call to speed up implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area to integrate economies of member states. The summit lived up to its billing as the most attended with almost all Heads of States turning up. […]
The World Bank has upgraded Zimbabwe to a lower-middle income economy, up from low-income economy status, the clearest indication yet that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s vision to transform the country into an upper-middle income economy by 2030 is achievable. The World Bank divides economies into four income groupings, namely low, lower-middle, upper-middle, and high income, with […]