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Zimbabwe- Harare City Council on Thursday demolished more than 15 houses and cottages along Airport Road ahead of President Robert Mugabe’s return on Friday from Asia, after the veteran ruler had long expressed his disquiet over the settlement. Last year, Mugabe ordered that settlers along Airport Road should be removed, as they were an eyesore and painted a bad picture about the country and yesterday’s demolitions were conspicuous as they came a day before his return from his month-long holiday. Though, Harare South MP and Harare Zanu PF commissar Shadreck Mashayamombe was not immediately available for comment on the matter, council spokesperson Michael Chideme said the demolitions were in line with Zimbabwe’s brand. “It’s a national response to brand Zimbabwe,” he said. “Those houses were wrongly sited. We can’t have houses close to the airport and along the major gateway to Zimbabwe.” Mugabe last year quizzed Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere...

Dr. Pilly Shing’oma (Picha na  Friday Simbaya) TANZANIAN women have been urged to take advantage of screening opportunities, recognizing the signs of cervical cancer, and seeking health care without delay. The Focal Person- Iringa Referral Hospital for Cervical Cancer Prevention Program, Dr. Pilly Shing’oma made an announcement on Friday during an exclusive interview with the Guardian on Sunday.  She said that the country is reported to have the highest number of cervical cancer cases in East Africa, which is why women should take up advantage of screening opportunities. "Screening" means looking for a disease in people who do not have any signs or symptoms of that disease. Cervical cancer screening can be done with a Papanicolaou (Pap) test and/or a test for human papillomavirus (HPV). The Pap test looks for conditions or tumors that may lead to cervical cancer,” Dr. Shing’oma said.  Dr. Shing’oma said that Iringa Municipal Council...

This Kenyan fishmonger is a typical member of the local informal sector. (Reuters/Thomas Mukoya) The informal economy in Africa is big business. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that its average size as a percentage of gross domestic product in sub-Saharan Africa is 41%. This ranges from under 30% in South Africa to 60% in Nigeria, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. It is also a huge employer. It represents about three-quarters of non-agricultural employment, and about 72% of total employment in sub-Saharan Africa. About 93% of new jobs created in Africa during that 1990s were in the informal economy. The International Labor Office defines the informal economy as: All economic activities by workers or economic units that are—in law or practice—not covered or sufficiently covered by formal arrangements. Today the informal economy appears to be as important as ever to Africa and its future development. But governments, and international organisations l...

Africa is already waking up to the possibilities that renewable energy provides, the African Union has pledged a $20 billion investment over the next decade. In East Africa, pay-as-you-go solar energy services are already proving a mainstream success . In West Africa, things are still at an early experimental stage. One such experiment is a solar-powered football pitch which also uses kinetic energy generated by footballers playing. Located at a teacher’s college in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial center, the innovative soccer pitch was launched last year in a three-way collaboration between energy giant Shell; music star Akon, who has been championing solar energy on the continent; and Pavegen, a UK-based start-up which has a target of providing low-cost renewable energy solutions to Africa’s electricity problems. Perhaps the most interesting technological feature of the solar-powered pitch—only the second ever launched across the world (the first was launched in Bra...

 

A girl is helping her mother Alfonsina Lwiva at Chamndindi Village in Nyang'oro Ward, Iringa Rural District to collect the bio-slurry which is by-product which comes out after producing biogas from the plant by using cattle dung yesterday. (Photo by Friday Simbaya ) TAGRODE Coordinator, Dickson Mwalubandu (centre) is inspecting one of the biogas plants that they have constructed at Chamndindi Model Renewable Energy Project which was later on given to Alfonsina Lwiva (extreme left hand side). A resident of Chamndindi Village in Nyang'oro Ward of Iringa Rural District, Alfonsina Lwiva explain to the Guardian reporter in the picture how the biogas stove operates in the kitchen yesterday.  Chamndindi Village Executive Officer (VEO), Haruna Mkakala sitting in his office. TAGRODE Coordinator, Dickson Mwalubandu  By Friday Simbaya, Iringa Tanzania Grassroots Oriented Development (TAGRODE) has begun implementing the Renewable Energy ...