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Mass grave found

MALAWI - Malawi has discovered a mass grave in the north of the country containing the remains of 25 people suspected to be migrants from Ethiopia, police said on Wednesday. “The grave was discovered late on Tuesday but we cordoned it off and started exhuming today. So far, we have discovered 25 bodies,” Police Spokesperson Peter Kalaya told AFP. Police were alerted by villagers in the Mzimba area, about 250km north of the capital Lilongwe, who stumbled on the grave while collecting wild honey in a forest. “We suspect that they were illegal migrants who were being transported to South Africa via Malawi,” he said.

State of emergency

CHAD - Chad’s President Mahamat Idriss Deby declared a state of emergency on Wednesday over flooding that is affecting more than a million people in the central African country. Floods are not uncommon during Chad’s rainy season, which usually runs from May to October in its southern regions. But this year the rains came early and were the heaviest in decades. “Starting now, a state of emergency will be instituted to better contain and manage this natural disaster,” said Deby in a televised address to the nation.

Bogus cops hijack man

JOHANNESBURG - North West police have urged motorists to exercise caution after two men dressed as traffic officers hijacked a motorist near Potchefstroom earlier this month. On Thursday, October 6, the 24-year-old motorist was driving an Isuzu bakkie on the R501, between Potchefstroom and Carletonville, at about 7:45am, when the bogus traffic officers stopped him. “The men, who were driving a white Volkswagen Polo with blue lights, requested him (the motorist) to produce his driver’s licence and to step out of the vehicle for a routine inspection,” North West Police Spokesperson, Colonel Adele Myburgh said.

HARARE - Zimbabwe expects to attain wheat self-sufficiency this year as the country’s agricultural sectors continue recording major recovery gains.

The country consumes about 360 000 tonnes of wheat annually, which in previous years was met by imports mainly from Ukraine, but with instabilities in Eastern Europe caused by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the country had to find alternatives to avert a wheat crisis.

Local Zimbabwean farmers took up the challenge and now they are reaping huge rewards and making a significant difference to the country’s food situation.

It is wheat harvesting season in Zimbabwe and the country is reaping huge rewards.

“For the first time in our country since 2004, we have never had such a bumper harvest of wheat. We are looking at high yields.