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Woman demands divorce token
A Harare woman is refusing to vacate her boyfriend's house before he pays a gupuro — a divorce token.Spiwe Chibokosa from Dzivarasekwa made the demands before Harare magistrate, Sharon Masha...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:34hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora blocks Chamisa from firing Mayors?
MDC Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora has moved in to stop the removal of Mayors and Deputy Mayors who were elected by Councillors outside Party whipping system.In letters in possession of Bu...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 11:10hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa fires Bulawayo's 'foreign' mayor?
MDC Chief of staff Sesil Zvidzai today issued a letter to Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Tinashe Kambarami instructing him to resign from his position paving way for the election of a New deputy Mayor by the C...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 18:32hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa defends controversial expulsions on party mayors
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has justified his purge of some party mayors from their council jobs saying they were conspiring with the enemy to defy his directives.Since the mayoral elections hel...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa warns internal rivals, 'it's too early to challenge me'
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has warned his internal party rivals seeking to challenge his position saying it is too early for them to challenge him as he is yet to finish the task his predecessor, the l...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 12:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
The fugitive Jonathan Moyo should write his will before submitting himself to Interpol
Tuesday 22 May 2018 shall be remembered as the worst day in the entire life of Jonathan Moyo. It is the day Moyo has been officially declared a fugitive or a number one enemy of the State. Life will n...Published: 22 May 2018 at 20:16hrs | 1 | by Don Chigumba
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 | | by Leon Usigbe
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
Nigerian President not dead
Presidency has urged Nigerians to disregard the rumour making the rounds that something unpleasant has happened to President Muhammadu Buhari.The Senior Special Adviser to President Buhari on ...Published: 15 May 2017 at 13:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | | 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
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 | 1 | 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 | | 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 | 2 | by Lansana Gberie
Clean Water and Sanitation - What about women and girls in war zones?
For more than three decades Africa has been in serious war challenges due to various political, social and economic reasons. Many people have died in the whole war and cheap military drama. Have we ev...Published: 21 Apr 2016 at 15:34hrs | | by Mbizo Chirasha
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 | 1 | by AFP
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 | | by Zipporah Musau
Britain to return Mbuya Nehanda's skull
President Mugabe has castigated Britain for displaying skulls of some of Zimbabwe's heroes and heroines from the First Chimurenga in their museums as symbols of colonial conquest.He said the B...Published: 11 Aug 2015 at 07:54hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Former Nigerian minister and #Bringbackourgirls founder, says Nigerian army has committed human rights violations
- Ezekwesili concedes Nigerian army has committed human right abuses in the fight against Boko Haram - "Oby" thinks #BringBackOurGirls has not failed and Boko Haram can still be de...Published: 29 Apr 2015 at 05:33hrs | | by Al Jazeera
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
Bus station explosion kills 20 in Nigeria
Lagos - A bombing at a bus station in Gombe city in northeast Nigeria killed at least 20 people on Monday, the latest violence in the region repeatedly targeted by Boko Haram, the Red Cross said....Published: 23 Dec 2014 at 13:47hrs | | by AFP
Boko Haram kidnaps 185 women and children, 32 killed
Kano, Nigeria - Boko Haram insurgents kidnapped at least 185 women and children, and killed 32 people in a raid in northeastern Nigeria this week, local officials and residents said.Gunmen in ...Published: 18 Dec 2014 at 16:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Deal for the return of captured Nigerian girls
Nigeria's military says it has agreed a truce with Islamist militant group Boko Haram - and says the schoolgirls the group has abducted will be released.Boko Haram sparked global outrage s...Published: 17 Oct 2014 at 16:22hrs | | by BBC
Witches & wizards issue warning to Boko Haram leader
Witches and wizards in Nigeria have recently held an emergency meeting at Afuze, Edo State because they are worried about the socio-economic challenges facing the country.Making this revelatio...Published: 19 Jul 2014 at 12:09hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
63 abducted girls, women escape Boko Haram
More than 60 girls and women abducted by Islamic extremists in Nigeria two weeks ago have escaped.Reports say 63 managed to flee while their captors were engaged in a battle with soldiers as ...Published: 07 Jul 2014 at 15:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
53 Boko Haram fighters killed in Nigeria
Maiduguri - Nigeria's military said on Saturday that it had killed 53 fighters from the Islamist Boko Haram group when it repelled an attack on a military base in the northeast Nigerian town of Damboa...Published: 06 Jul 2014 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gunmen shoot, burn churches kill scores
Maiduguri - Witnesses say suspected Islamic extremists sprayed gunfire at worshippers and torched four churches in a village just miles from the town where more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped....Published: 29 Jun 2014 at 20:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Brothel explosion kills at least 10
Kano - An explosion in the red light district of northern Nigeria's Bauchi city has killed 10 people and injured 14 others, police said Saturday.The cause of the late on Friday blast was not ...Published: 29 Jun 2014 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Some of the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls may never return'
Abuja - Nigeria's former president Olusegun Obasanjo told media some of the schoolgirls kidnapped by militant group Boko Haram in April may never return, in the most pessimistic comments yet on their ...Published: 13 Jun 2014 at 13:19hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Boko WHO???, Foreigners flock to Nigeria for T.B. Joshua's birthday
Despite the picture painted by international media, it appears the pull of a Nigerian Pastor has surpassed the fear of Boko Haram when it comes to tourism in Nigeria.The scene at the Murtala M...Published: 12 Jun 2014 at 17:14hrs | | by Ihechukwu Njoku - freelance Nigerian journalist
Zim MPs condemn Boko Haram
National Assembly members from different political parties yesterday expressed solidarity with the people and government of Nigeria following the abduction of more than 200 girls from a school three w...Published: 14 May 2014 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Nigeria president in abducted schoolgirls plea
President Goodluck Jonathan seeks international help to find 276 girls kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram fighters.Nigeria's President has appealed for international help to find, and ensure th...Published: 05 May 2014 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Nigeria denies killing of 15 Christian worshipers
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - The Nigerian government on Tuesd...Published: 02 Jan 2013 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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