Bizarre

HARARE - Police on Saturday said a suspected 23-year-old Mbare shebeen operator had been arrested for allegedly supplying alcohol to a group of 11 minors whose video downing the intoxicants in Harare’s Central Business District over the Christmas holidays went viral on social media.

Burundi's President Évariste Ndayishimiye has said that homosexuals in his country "should be stoned". Responding to a reporter's question, Mr Ndayishimiye, a fervent Catholic, said powerful nations "should keep" their aid if it comes with an obligation to give rights to homosexuals. "For me, I think that if we find these people in Burundi they should be taken to stadiums and be stoned, and doing so would not be a crime," he said.

In a painful case of mistaken identity, a bereaved Gweru family buried a wrong body, only to be alerted to the mishap by the other grieving family which discovered the body swap during body viewing.

Four time Mr Ugly Zimbabwe winner Mison Sere collapsed and died while he was relieving himself at a family house in Mabvuku, with his death linked to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.

In an incident that can easily pass for a Nigerian Nollywood movie, four murder suspects were on Monday arrested at a Kwekwe witchdoctor’s house while seeking divine intervention to be shielded from the crime.

A 70-year-old woman has given birth to twins following IVF treatment, a hospital in Uganda has said. Safina Namukwaya delivered a boy and a girl via caesarean at a fertility centre in the capital, Kampala.

Apostle K, a Zimbabwean based in Cape Town, South Africa, is set to launch a popular culture church in Harare branded the "Swagg Church".

A High Court judge is in trouble after he delivered a judgement on a matter that has not been heard or argued in court. According to documents in the possession of Nehanda Radio, Justice Webster Chinamora is alleged to have admitted the error in his Chambers and offered the aggrieved party an apology.

Two members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court charged with failure to secure a firearm after they lost it before it was used to steal chickens at a farm in Domboshava.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has broken up with her partner of 10 years, Andrea Giambruno, after he floated the idea of a threesome to another woman.