By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Dailynews
Zimbabwe is preparing to recall or retire more than 20 ambassadors as part of a sweeping reorganisation of its diplomatic service. Harare wants to refocus its embassies on foreign investment, exports and access to industrial technologies, reports Dailynews.
Officials from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa are calling for industrial waste to be turned into resources and recycling to be developed to create jobs. Comesa secretary-general Chileshe Mpundu Kapwepwe made the call at the regional summit in Harare, Fingaz reports.
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The Zimbabwean government is banning local authorities from foreign trips, retreats outside their areas and luxury vehicle purchases. The restrictions are intended to make indebted councils prioritise salary payments, statutory obligations and essential services, Daily News reports.
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Martin Dinha, a former Zimbabwean provincial minister and ZANU-PF official, praised President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s call for unity and public service at the opening of the party’s national conference in Chinhoyi. He presented the sacrifices of the Seven Heroes of Chinhoyi as a guide for party members, 263Chat reports.
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Traders from Eswatini, Zambia and Kenya presented their honey, maize, sugar and clothing in Harare, hoping to access new markets. The three-day exhibition was held alongside the 19th COMESA Business Forum, according to Dailynews.
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Zimbabwe administers nearly three million polio vaccine dosesThe Zimbabwean government says it has administered nearly three million doses of polio vaccine in 27 high-risk border districts. On World Polio Day, it said it was strengthening vaccination programmes and disease surveillance, according to the Daily News.
South Africa moves on from exclusion from US G20 summitSouth Africa is no longer concerned about its exclusion from the G20 summit hosted by the United States in Miami in December, its ambassador to Washington, Roelf Meyer, said. He said Pretoria was already in talks with the United Kingdom, which will host the summit the following year, and would attend the B20 in Washington in November, Daily Maverick reports.The week in Africa
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