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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
Tempers flare at Zanu-PF Mashonaland West women's quota nomination meeting
Zanu-PF Mashonaland West top activists came to near fist-fights as tempers rose at Thursday's party Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) meeting to endorse local authority women's quota candidates....Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on the radar of the new US Africa strategy
The United States foreign relations committee held confirmation hearings for President Joe Biden's Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Rwanda and Niger ambassadorship nominees on Wednesday.The four countries a...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 20:59hrs | 14 | 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
Mnangagwa's ministers openly clash over Zanu-PF positions
A MESSY public spat has erupted between two government ministers, Mary Mliswa-Chikoka and Kindness Paradza over the ongoing Zanu-PF restructuring exercise.Mliswa-Chikoka is being accused of ab...Published: 05 May 2022 at 07:14hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
#OperationDudula to shut down all South Africa police stations
Extremist xenophobic group #OperationDudula which is led by vigilante Soweto Commander Nhlanhla Lux Dlamini has vowed that it will shut down all South Africa police stations in June 16 this year. ...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Boko Haram' wins Zanu-PF primary election
THERE were wide celebrations Friday night after Zanu-PF official, Ruth ‘Boko Haram' Chikukwa won the right to represent the ruling party in the Chinhoyi Ward 2 upcoming council by-elections....Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:26hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF district elections kick-off
FIREWORKS are expected during the impending Zanu-PF district or ward elections across Mashonaland West province scheduled to kick off Tuesday.This follows a resolution Saturday by the provinci...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Shanyawugwe, a stock theft headquarters that needs dismantling
IN the past two weeks, there has been sad news circulating in the media relating to massive stock theft incidents in Matabeleland South Province, specifically in Gwanda District.In one story f...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Muchechetere wades into Zanu-PF DCC violence saga
NEWLY-CONSTITUTED Zanu-PF Veterans of the Liberation Struggle League (ZVLSL) Mashonaland West provincial chairperson, Happison Muchechetere has waded into the factional fights that have engulfed the p...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF DCC violence 'ring leaders' arrrested
POLICE have arrested four Zanu-PF activists who later appeared in court Wednesday for alleged involvement in intra-party violence that broke out at the weekend leading to the firing of tear-smoke to d...Published: 13 May 2021 at 18:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Political crowd funding: A new fleece
When author and Irish nationalist, Jonathan Swift, established the first recognised crowd funding in the early 1700s as a way of providing loans to the poor, but creditworthy people in Dublin, little ...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Innocent Mujeri
The controversial role of private military, security companies in Africa
PRIVATE military companies (PMCs) have been involved in conflicts around the world, including Africa, for a long time and and different reasons.The growth of private military contractors raise...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 08:21hrs | 6 | by Jonathan Powell, Christopher Michael Faulkner, Joshua Lambert
Mozambique insurgency a wake up call for SADC
The insurgency in Mozambique is a wake-up call to the SADC region. The region has ignored the presence of Islamic State Central Africa Province ISCAP in DRC. The region has also ignored the presence o...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 19:50hrs | | by Silent Fox
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 | 3 | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Matebeleland Problems won't be solved by Zimbabwe Government ( ZANUPF)
How can the Zimbabwe Government solve Matebeleland problems when the same Zanu PF system is the chief creator of all our problems?Our problems today as a region were created, knowingly and del...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 19:46hrs | | by VV Vodloza kaVodloza
Fixing Zimbabwe's broken reputation chain
The Economist Intelligence Unit's livability survey 2018, pitches Harare, in Zimbabwe, in the 10 least "livable" in the world out of the 140-city sample.Harare is ranked number 135, only eclip...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Buhari re-elected as Nigerian President
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been re-elected for a second four-year term, the Nigerian election commission says.The 76-year-old defeated his main rival, former Vice President Atiku ...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by -BBC
'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 | 1 | by Senator Monica Mutsvangwa
Mnangagwa's soldiers in Boko Haram-style invasions
AT a private hospital in Harare on Wednesday, a mother lay between her two children, all writhing in pain from injuries sustained when masked soldiers attacked their home Boko Haram-style.Afte...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 10:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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 | 2 | 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 | 2 | by Panganai Kahuni
Exposed: The sprawling network of US military bases in Africa
The other CSL, in the remote smuggling hub of Agadez, is set to become the premier US military outpost in West Africa. That drone base, located at Niger's Airbase 201, not only boasts a $100m construc...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 10:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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
Two ladies steal man's underwear, central lock his manhood
Two Guruve women appeared before Guruve resident magistrate on Monday for allegedly unlawfully entering a man's bedroom and stealing his underwear there-by central locking his manhood.The duo ...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 13:02hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Nabbed gang leader remanded in custody
A 32-year-old Harare man appeared before Guruve resident magistrate Shingirai Mutiro today for reportedly pointing a fire arm and robbing Kamushenje mine of its gold ore valued at $6000.Public...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:40hrs | 10 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe and African countries urgently need a new generation of leaders?
For the youth in Zimbabwe, you have a chance for "youth quake" on July 30, 2018! Zimbabwe like most African countries' populations is dominated by young people. Unfortunately, these young peop...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 18:34hrs | 2 | by Nomusa Garikai
ZRP dismisses social media terrorist claims
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has dismissed a message circulating on social media that there are some terrorists linked to north-eastern Nigeria based Jihadist militant organisation, Boka Haram, in the...Published: 06 Mar 2018 at 05:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
Mawarire acquitted
#ThisFlag movement leader Evan Mawarire was today acquitted of charges of inciting public violence and disorderly conduct at the University of Zimbabwe.Mawarire's lawyer Harrison Nkomo yesterd...Published: 29 Sep 2017 at 15:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Mugabe's youth plan backfires
The Zanu-PF Youth League, which carries the ruling party's hopes of retaining power at next year's elections, has hit turbulence owing to seismic divisions among its members over President Robert Muga...Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 15:29hrs | 4 | 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
Mbare violence has origins in commercial trading space allocation
Zimbabwe Peace Project has claimed that violence in Mbare Harare has its origins in the manner in which commercial trading space is allocated and leased by the bureaucrats in the Harare City Council (...Published: 26 May 2017 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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