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BY STAFF REPORTER CABINET has resolved to withdraw operating licences for independent power producers (IPPs) whose projects have failed to take off the ground. This was announced by Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa during a post-Cabinet media briefing on Tuesday. “Independent power producers who do not implement projects as agreed upon, risk losing their licences,” she said. Mutsvangwa’s statement came after Energy Parliamentary Portfolio Committee last week revealed that IPPs were only feeding 135,8 megawatt (MW) into the national grid against a target of 6 858,65 MW, as the majority of them were still not operational. “Some private sector players are being engaged to supply power off-grid to communities with metering and tariffs being regulated by the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority,” she said. The Information minister said by mid-year, a standard power purchase agreement and government support implementation agreement will be in place to incentivise investors to take up renewable energy projects. “The (Energy) ministry is also working on the development of the national integrated energy resource plan which will determine the renewable energy targets for the coming 20 years,” Mutsvangwa said. Follow us on Twitter @NewsDayZimbabwe
A Nigeria Railways Corporation official said the train departs Ibadan for Lagos at 8am daily with a return trip scheduled at 4pm.
The Lagos-Ibadan expressway is notorious for heavy trucks and traffic gridlocks that can stretch for several kilometres.
The Lagos-Ibadan line is the first part of a new 2,733km Lagos-Kano standard gauge line. The total cost of the project was valued at $11.117bn.
ABC 7 will present a virtual town hall examining the latest developments in the Covid-19 vaccine, the plan for distribution to high risk communities in Chicago, and efforts to mitigate vaccine safety concerns. ABC 7 Anchor/Reporter Cheryl Burton will moderate this hour-long event, OUR CHICAGO: VOICES OF THE COMMUNITY available on abc7chicago.com Thursday, December 10 … Continued
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Zambia has formally requested a financing arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to deal with its debt crisis, the Fund said in a statement on Tuesday. The IMF is “currently assessing this request,” it said. The administration of President Edgar Lungu released a photo showing him in a meeting with officials of the IMF...
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Milwaukee, WI — Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs and Homeland Security, chaired by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), held a hearing featuring the testimony of Dr. Jane M. Orient. She is the executive director of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, a small fringe group of doctors that has expressed numerous controversial […]
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Rapper and mogul Rick Ross has teamed up with the telehealth company Jetdoc to spread awareness about the importance of affordable healthcare.
[African Arguments] As treatments for COVID-19 are sought, there also needs to be a stronger stance against promoting unproven medicines.
There were allegedly no mask-wearing, distancing.
[Monitor] Conservationists have asked the government to prioritize the development and implementation of policies to promote a sustainable biomass value chain in the country.
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — As the Polish government plays a game of chicken with the European Union over its next long-term budget, some Poles are voicing fears that a drawn-out conflict could put their country on a path toward an eventual departure from the bloc, or 'Polexit.' Poland's conservative government, led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski's Law and Justice party, denies that it has ever wanted to leave the 27-member bloc, and popular support for EU membership runs extremely high. But critics fear the combative tone of Polish leaders — who have recently compared the EU to […]
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By Quinci LeGardye | California Black Media More than half of California is now under a regional stay-at-home order. Last week, when the governor announced the impending shutdown, he said health officials had carved the state into five regions. Their goal is to coordinate a broad emergency response that would reach across county lines and […]
[The Herald] The widening of tax brackets by Government is expected to boost spending by employees since they will have more money, and correspondingly result in businesses pushing more volumes, Employers Confederation of Zimbabwe (Emcoz) president Dr Israel Murefu has said.
MANAGING director of Whitter Group of Companies Angella Whitter says her company will be launching a $5-million fund to assist needy tertiary students who have health and financial challenges.The fund, aptly named the Joe and Angella Whitter Foundation, is also in memory of her late husband who died in 2013 and is remembered as an iconic land developer in the Rose Hall and Ironshore areas of Montego Bay.
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - Two new reports have found that the novel coronavirus pandemic-related school closures risk pushing an additional 72 million primary school-aged children, including those in the Caribbean, into 'learning poverty', meaning that they will be unable to read and understand a simple text by age 10.
By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia's situation is 'spiraling out of control with appalling impact on civilians' and urgently needs outside monitoring, the United Nations human rights chief warned Wednesday, but Ethiopia is rejecting calls for independent investigations into the deadly fighting in its Tigray region, saying it 'doesn't need a baby-sitter.' The government's declaration came amid international calls for more transparency into the month-long fighting between Ethiopian forces and those of the fugitive Tigray regional government that is thought to have killed thousands, including civilians. At least one large-scale massacre has been documented by human […]
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Ethiopia's government admitted on Tuesday to firing on a United Nations team who were visiting refugees in the conflict-hit Tigray region.
But a government spokesman said they were to blame for Sunday's incident close to the town of Shire, claiming they ignored instructions and drove through government checkpoints.
UN and aid agencies are continuing to seek access to the region a week after fighting there was declared over.
\"They broke two checkpoints to drive hastily to areas where they were not supposed to go, that they were told not to go,\" Ethiopian government spokesman Redwan Hussein told a press conference.
\"They were left alone when (and) they broke two checkpoints, and when they were about to break the third one, they were shot at and detained. Now, of course they are free.\"
\"This country isn't no man's land. It has a government,\" he added.
Almost one million displaced
Ethiopia's army has battled the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in the northern region since November 4.
Thousands have been killed and the UN estimates that more than 950,000 people have been displaced by the conflict,
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said there were four people in the UN team assessing roads in the area for aid deliveries.
Last week the UN said it had signed an agreement with the Ethiopian government guaranteeing \"unconditional access for humanitarian assistance\".
But Dujarric said the pact was not being met.
\"Are we getting unfettered, clear humanitarian access at this point? No. And that's why we're still in discussions with the government to try to get to where we want to be,\" he said.
\"We do have a number of humanitarian workers that stayed behind. I think most of them, if not all of them, nationals, they're trying the best that they can. But clearly, we're not able at this very moment to get the aid that we want to get in.\"
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The only surviving crew member of a World War II-era bomber that crashed in Connecticut last year, killing seven people, told investigators that 'everything was perfect' before takeoff and he doesn't understand what went wrong, according to federal documents released Wednesday. Mitchell Melton was the mechanic aboard the four-engine, propeller-driven B-17G Flying Fortress bomber that crashed at Bradley International Airport north of Hartford on Oct. 2, 2019. He is a key witness in the investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, which has not yet determined the cause of the accident. […]
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