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France and Ecowas in a fix as Burkina Faso, Mali warn against military intervention in Niger
Coup-hit Niger's neighbours, Burkina Faso and Mali, have warned that any military intervention against Niamey would be considered a "declaration of war" against their nations.The two countries...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 07:55hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
US Afghanistan spies enter Zimbabwe to fight for asylum in South Africa
THE group of 22 Afghan nationals, who worked closely with United States military and security agencies after the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack on Americ...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
When Zambia had a Tsvangirai moment
Phew! What an eventful week it was, from the fall of Kabul to the Taliban and the fall of Edgar "Chagwa" Lungu to Hakainde Hichilema in Zambia.And we also had new Malawian President Dr Lazarus...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
Zimbabwe fears terrorists attack from Al-Qaeda
Zimbabwean Senators have expressed fears that the country could be attacked by affiliates to the AlQaeda terrorist group. Discussing in Senate on Thursday, Senators said Zimbabwe could b...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 18:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
US foreign policy prefers Kenya
Kenya is "one of our key friends in Africa - nay, in the world," said a confident, pleased United States (US) assistant secretary of State for African Affairs, Tibor P Nagy, at a May 9 briefing in Was...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Pearl Matibe
'Information as a threat to national security'
We publish the full presentation by the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Senator Monica Mutsvangwa at the Zimbabwe National Defence University in Harare last week....Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:13hrs | | by Senator Monica Mutsvangwa
Mutsvangwa calls for laws regulating social media
Developing countries should mitigate the negative effects of information proliferation by creating laws that regulate social media usage, entrenching accountability and sanctions for offenders, a Cabi...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 11:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The West judges Zimbabwe differently
The Western world judges Zimbabwe at a higher standard than it does other African countries, and that's not entirely a bad thing.The temptation is to demand that the European Union (EU) and th...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:40hrs | 1 | by newZWire
Chamisa's foreign lawyers cornered
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa's bid to engage five foreign lawyers in his presidential election challenge could hit a brick-wall, as they are yet to be cleared to pract...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Like MDC Alliance, Mali opposition leader rejects presidential runoff result
Mali's opposition leader on Friday rejected the announcement that President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was the winner of a presidential runoff in this West African nation, saying he would be filing a frau...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 12:16hrs | | by AP
UK special forces hunt Osama Bin Laden's son in 'kill or capture' mission
Osama bin Laden's son is being hunted in a "kill or capture" mission by UK special forces.Hamza bin Laden, 28, has followed in his evil dad's footsteps to head terror group al-Qaeda .N...Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Notorious gang flees Mugabe rally
Zanu-PF supporters on Friday turned on one of the suspected terror groups, forcing it to flee Lupane on Friday moments after an angry President Robert Mugabe had finished his address in which he disow...Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 13:42hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe disowns terror gangs
Zanu-PF has dissociated itself from the terror gangs that have resurfaced in some of the country's major towns and cities ahead of next year's elections.The terror groups which claim to be aff...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 12:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T youths warn Zanu-PF
MDC youths, still smarting from last week's bloody skirmishes with the authorities, have warned their Zanu-PF counterparts against perpetrating violence by promising they will respond aggressively to ...Published: 18 Jul 2017 at 11:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF terror gangs resurface
Communities in some of the country's major towns are living in fear of ruling party youths who are operating terror gangs that are extorting money from informal and formal traders while harassing resi...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 16:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Al Jazeera on the brink of being shut down
Four Arab states have sent Qatar a list of 13 demands it must meet if it wants them to lift their sanctions.Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are asking the Gulf state ...Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 09:41hrs | | by BBC
Britain considered more dangerous than Zimbabwe
FINLAND has been named the safety country in the world - 77 places ahead of Britain which is considered more dangerous than ZIMBABWE.The northern European country saw off the United Arab Emira...Published: 18 Apr 2017 at 14:02hrs | 1 | by Corey Charlton
Trump era a continuation of a traditional order, decades in the making
- Former Black Panther chairperson dismisses the "distinction between this individual president and that individual president" in the USA- Author Naomi Wolf cal...Published: 17 Feb 2017 at 09:53hrs | 1 | by Al Jazeera
Al-Shabab seizes Somali town after African Union peacekeepers pullout
Fighters from al-Shabab have seized control of yet another town in central Somalia after it was abandoned by African Union peacekeepers, according to a spokesman for the group and a local official....Published: 24 Oct 2016 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bin Laden's son vows revenge
NEW YORK - The son of slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has threatened revenge against the United States for assassinating his father, according to an audio message posted online.Hamza...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 06:53hrs | | by agencies
Islamic State terrorists make inroads into Kenya
Nairobi - Recent arrests show the Islamic State's growing presence in East Africa, where they are recruiting young Kenyans for jihad abroad and raising fears some of them will return to threaten the c...Published: 02 Jul 2016 at 08:40hrs | | by AFP
Terrorism overshadows internal conflicts - As African countries scramble for solutions
Is terrorism becoming the dominant mode of conflict in Africa? This is a question many are asking following the recent surge in terror attacks across Africa. Since January about a dozen African countr...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 07:58hrs | 2 | by Lansana Gberie
'Al-Shabaab' runs amok in Kwekwe
It has emerged that the Kwekwe-based Zanu-PF terror group that goes by the sick moniker "Al-Shabaab" went berserk at the weekend, attacking party youths who attended a homecoming rally for President R...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 16:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Somalia attacks expose US 'hunger' to dominate Africa
On March 7 the Pentagon announced that it had killed 150 members of the Al-Shabaab guerrilla movement in a bombing operation in Somalia.These military actions are part and parcel of a broader ...Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 05:29hrs | | by Abayomi Azikiwe
Mugabe warns Zanu-PF factionalists
Individualists and factionalists have no place in the Zanu-PF Government, and people should respect the leadership appointed at the party's 2014 National People's Congress, President Mugabe said yeste...Published: 01 Feb 2016 at 05:50hrs | | by Felex Share
Did TB Joshua prophesied the Burkina Faso terrorist attacks?
Another 'prophecy' from Nigerian Prophet T.B. Joshua seems to have come to light as news of terrorist sieging a hotel in the capital of Burkina Faso makes worldwide headlines."More African cou...Published: 16 Jan 2016 at 07:43hrs | | by Ihechukwu Njoku
US regime change disaster in the Middle East
Seymour Hersh's recent revelations about an effort by the US military leadership in 2013 to bolster the Syrian army against jihadist forces in Syria shed important new light on the internal bureaucrat...Published: 06 Jan 2016 at 05:07hrs | | by Gareth Porter
Muslims help non-Muslims passengers, shield them in bus attack
Nairobi - Muslims helped dress non-Muslims passengers in Islamic garb, to prevent extremists from identifying them for slaughter on a bus in northern Kenya, witnesses said. Two people died in...Published: 23 Dec 2015 at 10:44hrs | | by AFP
Russia bombs CIA trained rebels
Beirut - Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive in support of President Bashar Assad's government, Lebanese sources said on Thursday, a further sign of the r...Published: 01 Oct 2015 at 17:43hrs | | by Reuters
Mujuru won't sleep alone
I LIKE what is happening in Europe, namely the trekking to its shores of thousands and thousands of refugees from North Africa and Middle East, foremost refugees from war-torn Syria. It's a pity Ameri...Published: 12 Sep 2015 at 09:09hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Former Afghan president calls al-Qaeda a 'myth' and denies 9/11 attacks were plotted in Afghanistan
On the 9/11 anniversary, former Afghan president Hamid Karzai challenges the consensus view on al-Qaeda, Afghanistan and the so-called ‘war on terror'Says al-Qaeda is a "myth": ...Published: 11 Sep 2015 at 11:22hrs | | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
Bin Laden relatives killed in UK
London - Members of Osama Bin Laden's family were among the victims in the crash of a private jet in Britain, the Saudi embassy in London said Saturday in a message of condolences.Four people ...Published: 01 Aug 2015 at 15:39hrs | | by Agencies
African youths speak on Garrisa students massacre
About 150 people, the majority of them students, were mercilessly killed by Al-shabab terrorists last week at Garrisa University College in Kenya.The gruesome killing is indeed a global incide...Published: 08 Apr 2015 at 12:09hrs | | by Musavengana Hove
Kenya destroys two al-Shabaab camps
The Kenyan air force has destroyed two al-Shabaab camps in Somalia, it said on Monday, in the first major military response since the Islamist group massacred students at a Kenyan university last week...Published: 07 Apr 2015 at 11:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Serious threat, 'Kenya's cities will run red with blood'
Mogadishu - Somali militants on Saturday threatened to stage more bloody attacks on Kenya after the group's fighters killed nearly 150 people during an assault on a Kenyan university on Thursday....Published: 04 Apr 2015 at 13:29hrs | | by Reuters
Goodluck Jonathan calls for US help as Boko Haram invade city
Kano - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan appealed for more US help in fighting Boko Haram, as the Islamists struck again on Saturday and called for a boycott of upcoming general elections....Published: 15 Feb 2015 at 10:53hrs | 1 | by AFP
'Be self-reliant,' Mugabe tells Africa
AFRICAN Union chair President Mugabe yesterday rallied member states to walk the talk by exploiting the alternative sources of funding they had agreed on in order to wean the continent off over-relian...Published: 01 Feb 2015 at 11:52hrs | | by Caesar Zvayi
Yemen president quits plunging country into political crisis
Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has quit along with his prime minister and cabinet, plunging the country into political crisis even as Houthi rebels consolidated their grip on the capital....Published: 23 Jan 2015 at 09:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
United Kingdom debate over Islam and 'Britishness'
London - A new row has erupted between the British government and Muslim organisations after the minister responsible for community cohesion wrote to hundreds of imams calling on them to do more...Published: 20 Jan 2015 at 13:17hrs | 1 | by Aljazeera
US, Nato formally ends war in Afghanistan
Kabul - The United States and Nato formally ended their war in Afghanistan on Sunday with a ceremony at their military headquarters in Kabul as the insurgency they fought for 13 years remains as feroc...Published: 28 Dec 2014 at 19:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
French-speaking jihadist threatens to execute Lebanese soldiers
Beirut - A French-speaking jihadist threatened on Friday to execute Lebanese soldiers held hostage by the Islamic State group, saying three prominent anti-ISIS Lebanese politicians would be responsibl...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 17:17hrs | 1 | by AFP
Zimbabwe used as CIA transit base - report
DESPITE loaded anti-American rhetoric, it has emerged that Zimbabwe may have been used as a transit base for several United States intelligence agency, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), terror su...Published: 11 Dec 2014 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Somali rebel denies Kenya reprisal over bus raid
Somalia's rebel group, al-Shabab, has denied claims by Kenyan authorities that more than 100 of their fighters, who allegedly masterminded an attack on a bus in northern Kenya, were killed by Kenyan f...Published: 25 Nov 2014 at 03:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gun shot in Canada parliament building - Video
A gunman shot a soldier at a war memorial in Ottawa, then ran into the nearby parliament building where he exchanged gunfire with police, BBC reported.More shots were fired outside a nearby ...Published: 22 Oct 2014 at 17:22hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
USA created Al-Qaeda and the ISIS terror group
MUCH like Al Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS) is made-in-the-USA, an instrument of terror designed to divide and conquer the oil-rich Middle East and to counter Iran's growing influence in the region. ...Published: 23 Sep 2014 at 08:01hrs | 6 | by Garikai Chengu
Islamic State opens new anti-US front with beheading video
Baghdad - Islamic State's beheading of a US journalist and its threat to "destroy the American cross" suggests it has gained enough confidence seizing large areas of Iraq and Syria to take aim at Amer...Published: 20 Aug 2014 at 18:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
UK issues new Kenya travel warning
Nairobi - Britain has advised its citizens to avoid the Kenyan island of Lamu, a popular tourist destination, following a string of attacks and massacres in the coastal region.A Foreign Office...Published: 13 Jul 2014 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter
United Nations determined to help Africa fight 'terrorism'
Nairobi - The United Nations is determined to help Kenya and other countries in Africa fight "terrorism" following a series of deadly attacks, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday.Sp...Published: 29 Jun 2014 at 05:15hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for Kenya attack
At least 48 people have died after al-Qaeda-linked militants attacked hotels and a police station in a Kenyan coastal town, officials say.Witnesses in Mpeketoni said gun battles lasted several...Published: 16 Jun 2014 at 19:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa's ingenious letter to Tsvangirai
As I was reading MDC-T Organising Secretary, Nelson Chamisa's speech on Africa Day titled Towards the great African promise, something kept nagging me as I read on and on.Then it hit me, a...Published: 02 Jun 2014 at 10:06hrs | | by Nicole Hondo
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