ZIMBABWE has been ranked 153 out of 178 countries in a 2008 World Bank report on "Doing Business" which looks at how regulatory environments influence the operations of business.
Vice President Ali Mohamed Shein signs the visitors book at the end of the Africa Commission meeting in Copenhagen on Wednesday. The meeting drew African leaders from various countries.
A combined force of police, gendarmes and soldiers have arrested more than a dozen men suspected of molesting Muyuka Divisional Officer, DO, David Dibango, during the recent nationwide unrest.
A spate of armed robberies has recently broken out in and around Kampala, with police saying they are closing in on the gangsters terrorising the neighbourhoods of Kisaasi, Bukoto, Ntinda, Naalya, Najeera, Kyanja, Kiwatule, Kulambiro and Kalinabiri.
On the night of Monday April 14, 2008, a fire broke out at one of the dormitories at Budo Junior School, 12km along the Kampala-Masaka highway. Twenty pupils, all girls, died out of the total of 60 in the dormitory
Meremeta Gold, the firm that was paid a whopping Sh155 billion by the Bank of Tanzania in unclear circumstances in mid last year, was an offshore company, registered in United Kingdom in 1997, The Citizen can reveal today.
There was drama in Parliament yesterday when MPs demanded an explanation as to why Igunga legislator Rostam Aziz was barred from moving a motion against the Richmond Committee report.
Embattled Cabinet minister Andrew Chenge flew back home yesterday, vowing to fight the mounting corruption allegations against him, and angrily described the $1 million he is alleged to hold in his overseas bank account as 'vijisenti'.
As allegations of grand corruption continue to rock the nation, with some prominent politicians and government officials suspected of having billions in foreign bank accounts, it has emerged that such transactions contravene BoT financial regulations.
