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Ex-Nigerian president dies at a clinic in London
Muhammadu Buhari, a former Nigerian military ruler who went on to become the nation's first opposition candidate to win a presidential election, has died. He was 82.Buhari died on Sunday after...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 21:12hrs | 1086 | by Staff reporter
Urgent Call for adoption of Regional Counter-Terrorism Strategy by member states
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) region has long been considered a safe haven from the threat of terrorism. However, recent developments, particularly the insurgency in Mozambique, ha...Published: 23 Sep 2023 at 21:13hrs | 2 | by Nicholas Ncube
Nigeria's Bola Tinubu warned against attacking Niger
Usman Yusuf, a vocal Nigerian professor of Haematology-Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, has warned President Bola Tinubu not to get entangled in a messy proxy geopolitical war between Nato an...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 08:47hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police impunity laid bare
POLICE deputy commissioner Stephen Mutamba was added to the list of individuals reeling under the United States (US) sanctions in a move that bolstered the long-held view that the Zimbabwe Republic Po...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Minister Kazembe behind attack on Tendai Biti?
Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) chairperson in Mashonaland Central province George Gwarada has condemned Minister of Home Affairs Kazembe Kazembe who is also ZANU PF chairperson for Mashonaland Cen...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 09:31hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ngadziore still detained at Harare Central police
MDC Alliance Harare Provincial Youth Secretary, Tatenda Johanes Karichi who is a tax Driver and Chrispen Bvirwa are still detained at Harare Central police station for Unlawful gathering.The t...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 20:20hrs | 1 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Mnangagwa tells Ramaphosa to use a bit of force
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged South Africa to use "a bit of force" to bring sanity in the neighbouring country following a recent wave of xenophobic attacks against foreign nationals that has...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
West Africa bloc currency ECO to launch in 2020
Leaders of a 15-nation West African bloc have called for greater structural reforms as they step up efforts for the introduction of a shared currency, aimed to be launched in 2020.In a stateme...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 09:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
World Refugee speech from the African Diaspora
Refugees are the most vulnerable group of migrants who have no choice but to move or flee. These are people in flight, and who have lost in most cases the protection of their countries. Even in the ho...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 21:27hrs | | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
Mnangagwa's political dialogue immobilises Chamisa's divisive politics
While Zimbabweans have largely moved on with life, following the 30 July 2018 harmonised elections, which President ED Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF won resoundingly, MDC- Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has a...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 08:05hrs | 4 | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Mamombe's arrest above board
The arrest of MDC MP for Harare West Joana Mamombe during a parliamentary workshop in Nyanga at the weekend was above board as she was taken by police well after the august House's business, National ...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 11:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stay away: A manifestation of the MDC's violence DNA
The MDC Alliance and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)'s so called protest stay away ostensibly meant to register disquiet over the ongoing economic challenges paradoxically turned out to b...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 13:26hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
The evil hand of civil society, MDC-Alliance
This week, Zimbabwe's opposition MDC-Alliance, civil society organisations and NGOs fronted a so-called shutdown that was underlined by anarchy, looting and lawlessness. The orgy of violence saw the d...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 00:03hrs | 3 | by Panganai Kahuni
Cop in court for assaulting civilian
A 35-YEAR-OLD Bindura Detective constable appeared before a Guruve magistrate yesterday for allegedly assaulting a Harare man in an illegal gold mining claim dispute.Detective Tafadzwa Nhoto o...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 08:58hrs | 6 | by Simbarashe Sithole
MDC-T president Nelson Chamisa must denounce political violence
The death of MDC-T President has left a big mark in Zimbabwe's politics and beyond. Indeed Dr Morgan Tsvangirayi was a great man who brought in democracy in a country where one party state has been th...Published: 22 Feb 2018 at 08:34hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
UN-AU decry absence of women in peacebuilding activities
A high-level delegation to Nigeria and the DRC urges countries to promote gender equality Reporting back from a trip to Nigeria and the Democratic Repu...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 18:43hrs | 2 | by Leon Usigbe
In this present crisis, govt is not a solution to our problem: govt is the problem
When Shingai Sibanda, a family man and school teacher since the early 1990s is struggling to secure high school, college and university fees for his three daughters: is it fair to deduce that life wil...Published: 28 Dec 2017 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
Obama and the fallacy of the African dream
When then-Senator Barrack Obama won the presidential election in the USA, ahead of Republican Party nominee John McCain, on Tuesday, November 3 in 2008 – Africa as a whole celebrated the election of...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 14:54hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Nigeria celebrates 57 years of independence in dependence
Over five decades ago, Nigeria had begun her final rites of passage from an adolescent colony of the British to a sovereign adult nation. Seemed like a whole lot of responsibility, but not such the ex...Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 09:36hrs | | by Nimi Princewill
State witness equates Mawarire to Boko Haram
The trial of #ThisFlag Campaign leader Evan Mawarire accused of attempting to overthrow President Mugabe unlawfully, resumed yesterday at the High Court with a State witness equating the cleric's move...Published: 29 Sep 2017 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe lash out at South Africa, Nigeria
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has lashed out at continental powerhouses South Africa and Nigeria for being complicit in the death of his slain ally, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, five years after the eve...Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe condemns religious killings
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday bemoaned interference by western powers in the affairs of other countries due to greed which has seen some innocent leaders from developing nations being assassinated....Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Let the AU pay its own piper to dictate the tune
The first quarter of 2017 saw President Robert Mugabe, former chair of the African Union meeting his length of the bargain following his 300 strong herd of cattle donation to the continental body. Thi...Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 11:08hrs | 2 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Prophet T.B. Joshua, please don't go!
TEMITOPE Balogun Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, is undeniably a global brand. His Emmanuel TV is watched by millions across the world. Joshua recently made headlines when he ann...Published: 06 Jun 2017 at 17:37hrs | 1 | by Obadiah Mailafia
The truth eludes Africa freedom
Africa once dubbed the black continent continues unabated its trend of not satisfying needs and aspirations of its especially the youth. My heart bleed for betterment of African youth.The current natu...Published: 27 Apr 2017 at 14:36hrs | 1 | by Enos Denhere
Dokora's Muslim syllabus
The diaspora was surprised to learn from the Primary and Secondary Education Minister, Lazarus Dokora, that Islam was Zimbabwe's biggest religion in 1980 and was the country's 'designated' indigen...Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 11:34hrs | 2 | by Zimvigil
MDC-T youth condemns soldiers attack on MSU students
The MDC-T youth has condemned the attack committed by suspected soldiers on Midlands State University Students which left 13 students injuries over the weekend.MDC T National Youth Assembly Co...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 06:47hrs | 5 | by Stephen Jakes
Fire on the ZAPU Mountain as succession war erupts
A succession war is developing and growing fast in ZAPU as differences emerge in the party with two opposing factions disagreeing over the continued Presidency of Dumiso Dabengwa, who at Congres...Published: 06 Feb 2017 at 09:03hrs | | by Christopher Ndhlovu and Sithuli Ndaba
Manheru attacks Nomazulu Thata
One Nomazulu Thata - that angry Zimbabwean beauty whose headgear leaves me breathless - is not too pleased with my snide comments on the sitting arrangement of Joice Mujuru, the leader of Zimbabwe Peo...Published: 22 Oct 2016 at 10:35hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Boko Haram leader killed in air strike
The leader of the Boko Haram group is believed to be fatally wounded in an air strike carried out by the Nigerian military in the country's northeast, according to official sources.Government ...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 15:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Nigerian military threatens journalist for not revealing sources
Abuja, Nigeria - The Nigerian military should cease threatening freelance journalist Ahmad Salkida with prosecution for not acting as an informer, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The ...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by CPJ
Escaped Nigerian girl misses her Boko Haram 'husband'
Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) - Escaped Chibok girl Amina Ali Nkeki says she misses her Boko Haram fighter husband and is still thinking about him three months after escaping the militants' camp.Amina ...Published: 17 Aug 2016 at 07:21hrs | 32 | by CNN
Boko Haram releases 'video' of Chibok girls
Boko Haram has released a video of the Nigerian schoolgirls allegedly kidnapped two years ago, showing some who are still alive and claiming others died in air strikes. The armed group, wh...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 06:57hrs | 3 | by Al Jazeera
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 | 4 | by Lansana Gberie
Is Africa rising?
Africa Day, 25 May, has come and gone and we remain with the burdens of being Africans, the burden of the indignities and humiliation of colonialism, the burden of slavery which no other continent suf...Published: 01 Jun 2016 at 16:13hrs | 1 | by MDC President Professor Welshman Ncube
Coltart and Msipa's memoirs: A time to reflect on Zim's split patriotic consciousness
It is with great shock that Zimbabwe is continuously losing her prolific thinkers. This past week I was shocked to receive the news about Alexander Kanengoni's departure for eternal rest. "Gora" (His ...Published: 17 Apr 2016 at 10:05hrs | | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Nigeria's former defence chief raided staff salary funds to buy property
Abuja - Nigeria's former chief of defence staff bought property including a $5.5m mansion with air force money, passing off his fraudulent withdrawals as staff salaries, a court heard on Wednesday....Published: 17 Mar 2016 at 07:05hrs | 2 | by AFP
Sex pest teacher allegedly abusing several children charged
A self styled pastor and former teacher suspected to have sexually abused several children before he was caught has finally been hit with a defilement charge.The Voice reported that Pastor Man...Published: 29 Feb 2016 at 08:54hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
AU want Mugabe to have second term as chairman
African ambassadors and African Union (AU) commissioners based in Ethiopia are reportedly pushing for 91 year old President Robert Mugabe to have a second term as the African body leader....Published: 27 Jan 2016 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Women, peace and security
15 years of implementing UN Security Council resolution 1325 in Africa As conflicts and crises in Africa took a more complex turn in recent years,...Published: 20 Jan 2016 at 21:01hrs | 1 | by Zipporah Musau
Mugabe becomes AU's worst chair
The end of January 2016 will see President Robert Mugabe's one year tenure as the African Union (AU) chair coming to an end. He will leave office as the weakest AU leader in the history of the organiz...Published: 19 Jan 2016 at 13:20hrs | | by Willias Madzimure
Somebody please advise MDC-T's Obert Gutu to shut up
Slow down, or shut up completely, sir! This is a piece of advice that yours truly, the writer of this column, will give the next time he meets the spokesperson of the opposition MDC-T party, Obert Gut...Published: 13 Jan 2016 at 05:08hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Boko Haram jihadists attack key city in Nigeria
Kano - Boko Haram jihadists attacked a key city in northeast Nigeria on Sunday evening, residents said, the second assault in days as Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's deadline to eradicate the mi...Published: 29 Dec 2015 at 08:24hrs | 1 | by AFP
Nigeria 'technically' wins against Boko Haram
Lagos - President Muhammadu Buhari said Nigeria has "technically" won the war against Boko Haram though suicide bombers remain a threat, in remarks issued days before his self-imposed deadline to defe...Published: 24 Dec 2015 at 16:12hrs | 2 | by AFP
900 Boko Haram hostages freed
Yaounde - Cameroon troops killed around 100 members of Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist group and freed 900 hostages in a three-day operation in the far north of the country, the defence ministry said ye...Published: 02 Dec 2015 at 23:54hrs | 1 | by AFP
Did TB Joshua predict Abuja Boko Haram bombings?
Although controversial Nigerian 'Prophet' T.B. Joshua has not been seen in public for over five months, indications have emerged that his 'famed' predictions have not ceased.According to Niger...Published: 03 Oct 2015 at 07:25hrs | | by Ihechukwu Njoku - freelance Nigerian journalist
Cosatu heaps praise on Zanu-PF's policies
South Africa's labour body, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), has praised Zanu-PF for steering the country in the right direction despite an onslaught from the United States and its...Published: 11 Aug 2015 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cameroon deports 2 000 Nigerians
Yaounde - Cameroon has deported more than 2 000 Nigerians who were living in the country illegally as part of new security measures intended to prevent suicide attacks by Boko Haram jihadists, sources...Published: 01 Aug 2015 at 12:27hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Respect term limits, says French President
COTONOU - French President Francois Hollande last week urged African leaders to respect their constitutional term limits amid concerns that some are prepared to risk political instability in order to ...Published: 06 Jul 2015 at 08:28hrs | 2 | by Reuters
Nigeria should be embarrassed by Mugabe's humiliation - Mnangagwa
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has told parliament that the Nigerian Government should be ashamed of President Robert Mugabe's recent treatment in that country.Mugabe (91) was humiliated by...Published: 17 Jun 2015 at 13:42hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
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