At an international conference on non-communicable diseases, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organisation director general, recently named Zimbabwe president, Robert Mugabe, as a new WHO “goodwill ambassador” on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) for Africa. Following international uproar the accolade was rescinded –

ORMER Zanu PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa and former Agriculture minister Rugare Gumbo have joined the MDC Alliance which is being led by MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Mutasa who is the also the former State Security minister and Gumbo the former

Zimbabwean protest group, Tajamuka-Sesijikile Campaign, says it has deployed what it calls “a crack team” of its members in Chitungwiza’s Unit N where Movement for Democratic Change supporters are being brutalized by suspected ruling party activists, demanding voter registration slips. In a