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Zimbabwe’s collapse is epitomised by the woeful state of its health system, with hospitals beset by medicine shortages and recurrent strikes by nurses and doctors over pay and working conditions.Funding cutbacks have left schools without essential teaching materials and demotivated staff, some of whom skip classes to work second jobs to try and make ends…

By Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporterRaleigh, N.C. — Gov. Roy Cooper is candidate Roy Cooper again, running for re-election after a four-year term marked by power struggles with the General Assembly's Republican majority. Early in his term, the state repealed House Bill 2, the notorious law that restricted transgender access to public bathrooms and blocked…

Tsitsi Dangarembga. Jemal Countess/WireImage/Getty Images A prize-winning Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker arrested at recent protests accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government on Tuesday of holding its people in a repressive "chokehold" as they endured an economic emergency.Tsitsi Dangarembga, whose latest book This Mournable Body has been nominated for a Booker Prize, was bundled into a police truck…

Colorado Springs COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- A stark warning was issued by the El Paso County Public Health Department nearly 14 days ago: if there isn't a slow in the rate of COVID-19, the county could have to re-evaluate variances and scale back business operations. "It's a pretty upward trend for the month of…

The EFF has significantly changed the South African political landscape and is marking its seventh anniversary.Party leader Julius Malema has, however, been dogged by numerous controversies.Political analysts say leaders should be discerning and able to act in the interest of the organisation they serve, as opposed to themselves.Analysts and an EFF insiders ask what the…