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Africa Day

As we celebrate the African renaissance, we must also be in a position to reflect on what the continent must do in order to improve the lives of African people.AFRICA must come up with one African currency that should trade within all the …

Published: 24 May 2025 at 22:55hrs | 159 | by Leonard Koni

Pan-Africanism is dead!

Twice, in as many weeks, I have heard Zimbabwe President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa speak on the need to preserve Pan-Africanism.Yesterday was the latest, as he attended a memorial service held in honour of the late Namibian President Hag…

Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 22:11hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

African Union is funded by the same people they are fighting

Imagine getting advice from your enemy on how to beat them in an economic or guerrilla war. The adage that goes, "It's not your duty to stop your enemy when they are making mistakes" is always seen when African nations are being given advi…

Published: 28 May 2023 at 16:06hrs | 9 | by Erick Matotoba

One year of free trading in Africa calls for celebration despite teething problems

Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General AfCFTA Secretariat, says significant progress expected in 2022.Free trading under the auspices of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) officially started in January 2021. One year later, several …

Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 08:41hrs | 242 | by Kingsley Ighobor

2022 National Budget Expectations

Zimbabwe's national budget for 2021 is expected to be presented within the coming 30 days amid fears of a resurgence in high levels of inflation. The country's annual inflation dropped from 363% recorded in January to 55% recorded in Octob…

Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 14:30hrs | 15 | by Victor Bhoroma

AU ambassador stands for the deceased pregnant minor

The African Union (AU) ambassador for ending child marriages Nyaradzai Gumbonzvanda challenged authorities to bring man and church leaders who impregnated a 14-year-old girl who died while giving birth in Bocha, Marange last week.She said,…

Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 11:41hrs | 6 | by Tarisai Mudahondo

SADC behind the new dispensation â€¦as it adds its growing voice against illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe

Upon his ascendancy to the Presidency of Zimbabwe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa quickly made known his ambition to project a different path to the one set by his predecessor, Robert Mugabe. President Mnangagwa identified key areas that nee…

Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 12:42hrs | 1 | by Claver Nyuki

Please Robert Mugabe Stop it! Lest we forget

I call upon the African Union, European Union whichever intergovernmental body to stop tolerating this 94 year old man who is crying every day that her wife is being tormented for attaining a fake PhD at one of Zimbabweans prestigious univ…

Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 12:05hrs | 44 | by Knowledge Hakata

Is democracy un-African?

Libya has experienced nothing but war and brutality since the reign of King Idris I started in 1951. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi deposed the monarch in a bloodless coup in 1969. Under Gaddafi, or 'Brotherly Leader,' as he loved to be called th…

Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 17:39hrs | 3 | by Tafi Mhaka

Of hypocrisy and foolishness

Only a foolish father leaves his children starving while generously providing for the next door neighbour's children.Not only was I shocked upon learning that Mugabe donated US$1 million to the AU, I was outraged!  I tried to search f…

Published: 04 Jul 2017 at 21:52hrs | 8 | by Patson Dzamara

When it comes to African dictators the African Union is a toothless bulldog

Julius Malema the opposition leader of South Africa has made mistakes as a growing politician on the continent but his call on Mr. Robert Mugabe to retire immediately ought to be seen in the light of a smart shrewd rising African political…

Published: 28 May 2017 at 13:11hrs | 2 | by Andrew M Manyevere

Truth and Reconciliation Commission to dissect accusations against Mugabe needed

The turning tide in Zimbabwe has highlighted the despotic intransigency of President Robert Mugabe and how it should be handled.Zimbabwe is important in the African scheme of things because - unlike countries such as Israel or the UK - it …

Published: 25 Jul 2016 at 17:29hrs | | by Ken Sibanda

Mugabe attends African Cities Urbanising conference in New York

President Robert Mugabe today attended the African Cities Urbanising conference hosted by the UN Habitat, where UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon said African urbanisation is an engine to sustainable development on the continent and fulfil…

Published: 24 Sep 2015 at 20:48hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter

Open letter to African Union heads of state - 'Its time to focus on people'

Kanayo F. Nwanze is the President of the United Nations rural development agency the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Nwanze, a Nigerian national, has been a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Foo…

Published: 19 Jun 2014 at 07:52hrs | 16 | by Kanayo F. Nwanze

Statement of the Africa Forum on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Statement of the Africa Forum on the situation in the Syrian Arab RepublicWe, members of the Forum for Former African Heads of State and Government, commonly referred to as Africa Forum (AF), have been deeply concer…

Published: 09 Sep 2013 at 10:46hrs | | by APO

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