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      • Zimbabwe starts compensating white farmers 25 years after land seizures

        Step is requirement for restructuring country’s debt, including new IMF programmeZimbabwe has started to make compensation payments to white former farm owners, 25 years after Robert Mugabe’s government began confiscating land.The government paid $3.1m (£2.3m) to a “first batch” of 378 farms, the ministry of finance said in a statement on […]

      • View from Africa: how Kirsty Coventry will handle sport’s biggest job at the IOC

        Incoming president owes her position to political support but is promising a collective and sustainable approachThe International Olympic Committee’s president-elect, Kirsty Coventry, did not initially have designs on a role in sports administration until she was thrust into it, essentially by politics.On 7 September 2018, Coventry found out, […]

      • 'It is significant': Kirsty Coventry voted first female president of IOC – video

        Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), becoming the first woman and first African in the committee's 131-year history to get the job. The former swimmer, a two-time Olympic gold medallist, won 49 of the 97 votes of the IOC membership in the first round of votingKirsty Coventry elected first female […]

      • Kirsty Coventry elected first female president of IOC as Coe routed in vote

        Zimbabwean former swimmer won majority in first roundSebastian Coe is third; Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr secondThe Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry has become the first woman to lead the International Olympic Committee in its 131-year history after a stunning first-round knockout over a seven-strong field that included Britain’s Sebastian Coe.In […]

      • ‘Disruptive, unfair and cruel’: jobs lost and treatment stopped as USAid freeze hits HIV care in Zimbabwe

        Clinics have been forced to close as halt in funding impacts country’s donor-dependent health sectorChiedza Makura only learned she had been dismissed from her nursing job when a WhatsApp message came through on the evening of 28 January. The 37-year-old single mother of three worked as an HIV nurse at Zim-TTech, a private voluntary organisation […]

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