Perth (Australia), Jan. 31 : The ICC Board on Saturday held the first day of its two-day meeting in Perth, the first of the four scheduled meetings it holds each year.
Among the matters discussed were the following:
Zimbabwe: A task team, headed by Dr Julian Hunte, the President of the West Indies Cricket Board, presented an interim report to the ICC Board. This followed a visit to Zimbabwe by Dr Hunte and ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat in November last year.
Sydney, Jan 30 : Peter Chingoka, the head of Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC), has been refused entry into Australia because of his links with the regime led by Robert Mugabe and will be absent from a meeting of the International Cricket Council in Perth starting on Saturday.
The ICC will hold a two-day board meeting without Chingoka. It is unclear whether Chingoka applied for a visa to enter Australia, however it is understood that Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) would have refused his application.
Harare - Roy Bennett, the top pro-democracy official pursued by Zimbabwean secret police over an alleged plot to assassinate President Robert Mugabe, slipped quietly into Zimbabwe early Friday after nearly five years in political exile, sources in his Movement for Democratic Change party said.
Johannesburg/Harare - 's government Thursday declared all foreign currencies to be legal tender, alongside the near-worthless Zimbabwe currency, legalising the domination of hard currency in the country's collapsed economy.
The regime also introduced a wide range of economic reforms in an attempt to revitalise the crisis-stricken economy, where economists can only guess at the rate of hyperinflation, where the productive sector has foundered and the infrastructure is crumbling.
Harare - A day before Zimbabwe's opposition votes on whether to join President Robert Mugabe in government, the United States ambassador to Zimbabwe expressed hope Thursday that a government would be formed quickly.
"We are hoping to see a government in place, an operational government in the very, very near future," ambassador James McGee told reporters during a visit to a clinic treating cholera patients in the capital Harare.
Geneva - Nearly two months after Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe declared that the cholera outbreak in his country had been "arrested" the number of dead continues to climb, passing 3,000 this week, the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
As of Tuesday, 3,028 people had died and 57,702 become infected with the waterborne diarrhoeal disease.
That's 273 more dead and 9,079 more cases of infection than the last OCHA update six days ago.
Perth (Australia), Jan. 31 : The ICC Board on Saturday held the first day of its two-day meeting in Perth, the first of the four scheduled meetings it holds each year.
Sydney, Jan 30 : Peter Chingoka, the head of Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC), has been refused entry into Australia because of his links with the regime led by Robert Mugabe and will be absent from a meeting of the International Cricket Council in Perth starting on Saturday.
Harare - Roy Bennett, the top pro-democracy official pursued by Zimbabwean secret police over an alleged plot to assassinate President Robert Mugabe, slipped quietly into Zimbabwe early Friday after nearly five years in political exile, sources in his Movement for Democratic Change party said.
Johannesburg/Harare - 's government Thursday declared all foreign currencies to be legal tender, alongside the near-worthless Zimbabwe currency, legalising the domination of hard currency in the country's collapsed economy.
Geneva - Nearly two months after Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe declared that the cholera outbreak in his country had been "arrested" the number of dead continues to climb, passing 3,000 this week, the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
