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Ballots and Bullets: The Struggle for Democracy in Africa
Since the wave of independence that swept across Africa in the 1960s, the promise of democracy has remained elusive for much of the continent. The dream of democratic governance, where leaders are acc...Published: 20 Feb 2025 at 08:34hrs | 795 | by Rutendo Vanessa Chisi
BBC accused of plot to destabilise Niger
NIGER has suspended the operations of the British media company, BBC, owing to the suspicion that the company is trying to disrupt the country's peace.Niger's government has suspended the UK-b...Published: 15 Dec 2024 at 09:41hrs | 545 | by Staff reporter
Dr. Arikana Chihombori: the unsung heroine of Africa
She will never get recognition in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwean women have no vocabulary to appraise Dr. Chohombori breaking the glass-ceiling. The inner jealousy and the inherent envy among us women are so ev...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 12:52hrs | 410 | by Nomazulu Thata
Africans concerned with the high level of Political violence in America
African commentators are making fun of violence that has emerged in the race for the American presidency. The US Embassies which are too quick to issue advisories and statements have not issued any at...Published: 14 Jul 2024 at 11:05hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Drawing parallels between Kenya and Zimbabwe's social, economic, and political disturbances
We want to believe that the demonstrations in Kenya just happened overnight. The Gene Zs went on a rampage assisted by criminals. To framing them so thin, is to trivialize a genuine revolution that wa...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 23:08hrs | 47 | by Nomazulu Thata
Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso signsa confederation treaty
Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, three military-led West African states, signed a confederation treaty on Saturday, underscoring their determination to chart a joint course outside the regional political...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 17:40hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger withdraw from ECOWAS
West African nations Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have withdrawn from the regional economic bloc known as ECOWAS, their respective juntas announced Sunday. They accused the bloc of "inhumane" sanction...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 09:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Niger irks France by revising upwards rip-off uranium prices
The new government in Niger has started showing signs of real liberation by selling their minerals at world market yet France has been getting at half the price.This reason why France is reall...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 06:02hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Gayton Mackenzie calls on Home Affairs to be ready to deport protesting Zimbabweans from SA
South Africa's Patriot Alliance (PA) leader, Gayton Mackenzie has urged the Department of Home Affairs (DHE) to stand "ready" and "deport" the Zimbabwean nationals in South Africa who have vowed to ma...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Maimane's party wants South Africa to expel the Zimbabwean ambassador
Mmusi Maimane's Build One South Africa party has urged the South African government to cease diplomatic engagement with the government of Zimbabwe and expel the Zimbabwean ambassador.Maimane's...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 13:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vladimir Putin - the global game changer
Over the past week, a lot has occurred in the world around us. The Zimbabwean elections, the Brics summit in South Africa, the passing on of Yevgeny Prigozhin head of Russia's private mercenary compan...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:06hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
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
Niger: Calls for mass recruitment of volunteers to counter Nigerian military invasion
Nigeriens are preparing for a possible invasion by countries in the region, three weeks after mutinous soldiers ousted the nation's democratically elected president.Residents in the capital, N...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:59hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
French puppet's military action in Niger rejected by Nigeria's Senate
The Senate has rejected an option of military operations in the Nigeria's neighbouring Niger Republic, however, calling on the ECOWAS Parliament and other leaders to condemn the coup d'etat in the cou...Published: 05 Aug 2023 at 20:29hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
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 | 14 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in diplomatic push ahead of polls
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has embarked on a diplomatic offensive to court the support of regional leaders in his party's push for free and fair elections in ...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 09:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa and Douglas Mwonzora - Water and Oil Don't mix
Advocate Nelson Chamisa and Douglas Mwonzora like water and oil do not mix. Not surprising then that the sly attempts to foist Mwonzora on the masses, are failing.As we head to 2023 elections,...Published: 27 May 2022 at 07:42hrs | 2 | by Grace Kwinjeh
Maimane tells big brother SA to be tough on Zimbabwe
SOUTH Africa should team up with regional groupings including Sadc to ensure Zimbabwe's 2023 general elections are not rigged and the observers do not endorse a flawed process as happened in the past,...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe elected into AU's Peace and Security Council
THE African Union's election of Zimbabwe into the AU's Peace and Security Council is an honour that the country should be proud of, at a time when there are growing concerns over insurgencies in a num...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 05:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Azania Azania Azania! You are not an Island
Bulawayo - The first time I entered my primary school, 1988 at the assembly point after singing the national anthem, it was a mandatory to sing a song called Azania sympathising with our fellow contin...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 19:48hrs | 16 | by Enos Denhere
Africa's free trade area opens for business
Trading under the continental free trade agreement started on 1st Jan. African countries opened their markets on 1st January under the continental free...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 08:37hrs | 4 | by Franck Kuwonu
Allow African youths to take charge of their destiny
Democracy in Africa if not checked will be like a sheep being accompanied to a slaughtering house.Elections in Africa are slowly showing signs and symptoms of a dying democracy.The rec...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:31hrs | 3 | by Leonard Koni
Allow African youths to take charge of their destiny
Democracy in Africa if not checked will be like a sheep being accompanied to a slaughtering house.Elections in Africa are slowly showing signs and symptoms of a dying democracy.The rec...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 09:12hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
Time for African youths to silence the gun
Africa as a continent needs a fresh start with new crop of leadership who are not necessarily militant or use their muscles to solve the problems facing their nations but who will use their brains....Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 07:41hrs | 3 | by Leonard Koni
No one is going to save Zimbabweans but themselves, says Makoni
Simba Makoni (Sm) is regarded as one of the best ministers to preside over Zimbabwe's Treasury. He then formed his party, mMvambo/Kusile/Dawn (mKD) which had a good showing in the 2008 presidential el...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ICAC demands lifting of Ecowas embargo against Mali
The International Coalition Against Coronavirus and Other Pandemics (ICAC) has demanded the lifting of the ECOWAS embargo against Mali and the immediate release of its Vice President Pulcherie Edith G...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 08:49hrs | 16 | by Stephen Jakes
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
'Chiwenga inspires African armies to commit coup'
The successful November 2017 coup that that ended 37 years of President Robert Mugabe's iron rule has inspired African armies to wade into the political arena analysts have said. The bloody co...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 14:53hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa sneaks back into the country
MDC Alliance leader, Advocate Nelson Chamisa's so called diplomatic offensive has raised stink following reports that his claims that he was going to meet the African Union (AU) and SADC chairpersons ...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 16:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
An OSO appeal to the world Zimbabwe Condition
Zimbabwe Condition on 14 January 2019: an Open Appeal to the World for Peace ProvisionsWe of Zimbabwe in the Diaspora wish to appeal to the African Union (AU) and her sub regional towers o...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 20:22hrs | 1 | by Manyevere M Andrew
Is Mnangagwa going the Yahya Jammeh-way?
As 30 July poll beckons, the atmosphere flares up as parties crisscross the lengths and breadths of the country soliciting votes from a poverty-ridden electorate. All candidates mete out plans to revi...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 15:43hrs | 1 | by Benny Gudo
Corrected Press Release statement: 1893 MHRRM UK Demo
The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement's (1893 MHRRM's) UK Chapter hereby announces that it will be holding another Matebele "Gukurahundi" Genocide Demonstration against the Zimbabwean g...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 08:03hrs | 2 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
Mnangagwa will get 70% of the vote - survey
IF Zimbabwe holds harmonised elections today, Zanu-PF Presidential candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa, will garner 70 percent of the vote against MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa's 24 percent, an opini...Published: 30 May 2018 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zuma govt lose SADC Tribunal closure case
Judgment in court case against President Zuma and the South African government for their role in the closure of the SADC TribunalToday the Pretoria High Court handed down judgment in the prolo...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 16:30hrs | | by Willie Spies
Was the army intervention party politics or national interest?
In the 1960s AFRICA Tested independence and many states gained freedom. This was followed by military coups to change the demi gods created by the military and bootlickers. The 2000s saw a comparative...Published: 27 Dec 2017 at 14:29hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The junta and their role in holding Zimbabwe hostage - the most dangerous unit in Zimbabwe...
The JUNTA was originally made up of Seniors from the Four (4) main wings of national security.These are the Army, Police, Prisons and CIO. Their 100% mandate is to make sure that ZANU PF remai...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
SADC think of masses in Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe citizens have gone through rough pages over the years. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is an inter-governmental organization headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana. Its goal is...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 16:40hrs | 1 | by Enos Denhere
PDZ hails Sadc intervention
The Progressive Democrats Zimbabwe President Barbra Nyagomo has hailed the Sadc intervantion on Zimbabwe political situation as the military seek to force President Robert Mugabe to step down and allo...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 16:12hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
SADC must do to Mugabe what ECOWAS did to Yahya Jammeh
In a haze of nostalgia, social media was awash with people saying that it was a grave mistake that the electorate let go of a thorough politician like Thabo Mbeki only to be governed by the incumbent ...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 14:47hrs | | by Rita T.M. Kufandarerwa
'Sadc must give Zimbabwe poll reforms ultimatum'
Southern African leaders must keep an eye on Zimbabwe as it draws up a road-map for general elections in 2018, amid high tension and possible chaos over President Robert Mugabe's likely successor amid...Published: 28 May 2017 at 15:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zim lost 60% of its GDP- Mashakada
MDC-T deputy secretary general Tapiwa Mashakada has said Zimbabwe has lost 60% of its gross Domestic Product (GDP).He said however Africa's growth has remained stagnant at 3% due to failed sys...Published: 08 May 2017 at 07:05hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Hakainde Hichilema arrest barbaric
The PDP condemns the recent arrest of United Party for National Development Hakainde Hichilema who has charged with treason for allegedly obstructing the motorcade of President Edgar Lungu; we view th...Published: 19 Apr 2017 at 11:59hrs | | by Willias Madzimure
Lungu now using repressive state apparatus like Mugabe
The PDP condemns the recent arrest of United Party for National Development Hakainde Hichilema who has charged with treason for allegedly obstructing the motorcade of President Edgar Lungu; we...Published: 19 Apr 2017 at 10:38hrs | | by Willias Madzimure
In Zimbabwe Elections Will Never Be a Tool to Change Government for As Long As Zanu Is in Power
Introduction: Who Really Is Zanu? A political organization that timely took an opportunity to talk right language at the right time on the need to fight...Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 00:13hrs | 15 | by Andrew Manyevere
SADC must act on the Zimbabwean crisis
The People's Democratic Party urges SADC to act on the concerns of the Zimbabwean people instead of adopting the current passive by-standing approach.A crisis has been brewing in Zimbabwe for ...Published: 27 Mar 2017 at 11:17hrs | | by Jacob Mafume
Malema urges African leaders to tell Mugabe to go
South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema has urged the Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders to gather courage and tell President Robert Mugabe to say h...Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 08:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Dog that killed Gambian president's son put down
BANJUL - A dog that killed a young son of the Gambian president Adama Barrow has undergone a fatal injection, according to the veterinary unit of the country's Ministry of Agriculture.Seven-ye...Published: 03 Feb 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Smooth power transfer, nightmare for Zim- Mutodi
The Controversial Zanu PF youth member Energy Mutodi has said the smooth power transfer ideology is a serious nightmare for Zimbabwe amid concerns that Zanu PF would not allow any party which wins ele...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 05:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Sadc must use Ecowas way to tackle Mugabe
Following Ecowas' sustained pressure that has forced Gambia's former authoritarian leader Yahya Jammeh into exile in Equatorial Guinea after his crushing poll defeat, analysts and opposition parties s...Published: 24 Jan 2017 at 06:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZUNDE challenges SADC to learn from The Gambia
An official statement by Zimbabweans United for Democracy published under the authority of Justice Benjamin Paradza, Exiled Judge of the High Court of Zimbabwe and President of ZUNDE.There...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 14:57hrs | | by May. Chamboko
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