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15 Trapped Zimbabwe Miners Rescued
All fifteen miners trapped in a Zimbabwean gold mine for four days have been rescued. Mines Minister Soda Zhemu said the workers were healthy and conscious. The Redwing gold mine owned by Metallon Corporation caved in after the shaft collapsed on Thursday. Officials said an earth tremor might have caused the accident. Families of the…
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Cholera Outbreak: Zimbabwe Declares State of Emergency
Zimbabwe has declared a state of emergency in the capital Harare over a cholera outbreak. The outbreak has so far killed dozens of people with more than 7,000 suspected cases. The city authorities say the outbreak, spreading throughout the city, has invoked memories of a deadly outbreak in 2008, in which thousands died. “We have…
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Amnesty: Opposition Says ‘Dangerous Rapists’ among Zimbabwe’s Freed Prisoners
Zimbabwe’s main opposition coalition the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has claimed that some of the more than 4,000 prisoners released on presidential amnesty last week include child rapists. President Emmerson Mnangagwa pardoned the prisoners drawn from the country’s 47 prisons in an attempt to decongest the overcrowded jails. Prison authorities had, however, said rape…
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Ostrich Tribe Of Zimbabwe
The vaDoma tribe, also known as Doma or Dema, is the only hunter-gatherer tribe in Zimbabwe living in the Kanyemba region around the basins of a tributary of the Zambezi River Valley. They speak the Dema language and believe their ancestors emerged from a baobab tree and walked upright to hunt and gather fruits. The…
