According to recent data 72 per cent of Uganda’s land is arable, compared to Kenya's 48 per cent, Tanzania's 45 per cent, Ghana's 65 per cent, Malawi's 60 per cent, Burkina Faso's 44 per cent and Mozambique's 53 per cent. By Leo Kemboi and Emmanuel wa-Kyendo The
Migrants living overseas have been dealt a double blow by the global rise in the cost of living after inflation broke 40 year highs in the US and in some parts of Europe this year. A multi-country study to determine the effects of the increased cost
Government is set to raise royalty tax on platinum and lithium miners starting January 2023 as it seek to enhance revenue collection streams to meet rising expenditure, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said in his mid-term budget review presented to Parliamentarians yesterday. The rate for platinum miners
Finance and Economic Development Minister Prof Mthuli Ncube says the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for the year will close at 4.6 percent down from 5.5 percent meaning the economy will grow at a much slower pace than earlier projected due to a frustrating
Women in Chipinge’s Ward 26 are benefitting from an initiative meant to address period poverty through empowering women with skills to make washable sanitary pads to ensure they shun unhygienic methods such as using old clothes. By Artwell Sithole and Memory Sibanda In an interview with 263Chat,
United States of America Department of State has urged the government of Zimbabwe to amend its anti-trafficking law to criminalize all forms of trafficking in line with the 2000 United Nations Trafficking In Person protocol. In its Trafficking in Person 2022 report, US Department of State
The Zimbabwe Women Against Corruption Trust (ZWACT) has raised the alarm over an increase in the numbers of women who are falling victim to corruption and sextortion in the workplace in order to gain favours from their superiors. This comes as the Public Service and Social
Alcoholic beverages maker-Delta Corporation recorded increased volumes during the first quarter to June 2022 largely spurred by availability of foreign currency to import raw materials and drive production. Despite a general shortage in foreign currency to adequately meet import demand for raw materials, most firms have
Human rights lawyers have petitioned authorities at a Zimbabwean school seeking to stop them from disenfranchising pupils by not allowing them to register for their Grade Seven examinations owing to non-payment of registration fees guaranteed by government. Tinashe Chinopfukutwa of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights on
Zimbabwe’s annual consumer price inflation jumped to 191.6% in June 2022, from 131.7% in May. Month on month (MoM) inflation has increased from 5.3% recorded in January to 31% in June 2022. The mean MoM inflation rate for 2022 (January to June) was 14.3%, up
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