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Insurgency in Cabo Delgado How did it start?
No human eye has seen such a level of cruelty perpetrated on another human being by another human. The gruesome nature of the killings rape and suffering caused by these ISIS rebels is indeed knee sha...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:57hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Several Zimbabweans killed in Mozambique, the battle of palmer
Michael Chandada was so excited when he got a Job in Mozambique. His company is involved in extracting oil and gas and again runs marines in the area. Michael was posted to work from a plant in Palma ...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 11:19hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Harare says 'Mozambican crisis a regional question'
ZIMBABWE will not individually deploy troops in northern Mozambique to fend off Islamic insurgents who have killed more than 2 500 people and displaced 700 000 others in the country, the government sa...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 14:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Mozambique
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa who left Harare this morning has arrived in Maputo, Mozambique for a day long indaba as SADC moves in to counter insurgency in that country.The President was welcomed at th...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 14:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sadc plots Mozambique rescue mission
SADC yesterday undertook to work on a robust regional response to the growing threat of terrorism and insurgency in parts of Mozambique, which it will put in action once finalised. This came o...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans live in fear of terror attacks from Mozambique
A POLITICAL science student from the University of Zimbabwe, Jethro Ngara, sees doom and gloom as his country dares to wade into Mozambique's war on terror.Ngara, 25, said he is too young to d...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 04:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bambanani Association stands with Chief Ndiweni
There is little doubt that the recent garbled, inane vitriol against Chief Ndiweni, emanated from the office of the Zimbabwean President. Rarely does one find such a match between messenger and messag...Published: 18 May 2019 at 18:23hrs | | by Dr Ralph Mguni
Gold worth billions smuggled out of Africa
Billions of dollars' worth of gold is being smuggled out of Africa every year through the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East - a gateway to markets in Europe, the United States and beyond - a Reu...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Reuters
Mugabe suffers Mubarak Ceausescu shame
THE army has taken President Robert Mugabe and his wife into custody, triggering speculation of a military coup, though the military's supporters called it as a "bloodless correction." It wasn't clear...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 10:47hrs | 1 | by Associated Press
Zimbabweans react to Trump's US polls victory
Republican candidate, Donald Trump romped to victory in the US elections, trouncing Democrat Hillary Clinton to become America's 45th president elect.Trump won both houses while also claim...Published: 10 Nov 2016 at 04:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pair jailed for beating ex-interim president
BAMAKO - A Malian court has sentenced two men to five years in jail for beating up Mali's former interim president, Dioncounda Traore, during the occupation of his palace in May 2012 by protesters...Published: 06 May 2016 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohammed Morsi sentenced to death
An Egyptian court has pronounced death sentences on ousted president Mohammed Morsi and more than 100 other people over a mass prison break in 2011.Morsi is already serving a 20-year prison t...Published: 16 May 2015 at 13:56hrs | | by BBC
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
Death toll in Kenya attack rises to 147, siege over
Nairobi - The death toll in the attack by Somali Islamists on a university in northeastern Kenya on Thursday has risen to 147 and the siege has ended, the country's disaster response agency said....Published: 02 Apr 2015 at 20:09hrs | | by Reuters
Nigerian forces kill over 300 Boko Haram fighters
Maroua - Nigerian forces have killed more than 300 Boko Haram fighters during an operation to recapture 11 towns and villages since the start of the week, the military said on Wednesday, as regional n...Published: 18 Feb 2015 at 17:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Egypt bombs Islamic State targets
Egyptian jets bombed Islamic State targets in Libya on Monday, a day after the group there released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians, drawing Cairo directly into the conflict ac...Published: 16 Feb 2015 at 12:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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
MP shot dead in Kenya
A Kenyan lawmaker was shot dead in the capital early yesterday, in an incident likely to put pressure on President Uhuru Kenyatta's government over insecurity in the east African nation.Freque...Published: 08 Feb 2015 at 08:43hrs | | by Reuters
Boko Haram killed woman in labour
Lagos - Boko Haram fighters killed a woman as she was in labour during what is feared could be the deadliest attack in the militants' six-year insurgency, Amnesty International claimed on Thursday....Published: 15 Jan 2015 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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
88-year-old becomes Tunisia president
Tunis - An 88-year-old veteran of Tunisia's political establishment won the country's presidency, according to official results issued on Monday, capping a four-year-long democratic transition....Published: 23 Dec 2014 at 13:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Uhuru Kenyatta signs controversial anti-terror bill
Nairobi - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday signed into law a controversial anti-terror bill that sparked brawls in parliament and charges that it violated basic freedoms.Kenyatta said...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 18:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
$1million bounty for sniper who shot dead 'White Widow' in Ukraine
A $1million bounty has been put on the head of a sniper who was said to have shot dead British terror suspect the White Widow, the UK Mirror reported.Samantha Lewthwaite, the world's mos...Published: 13 Nov 2014 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Libya's toothless interim government resigns
Benghazi - Libya's toothless interim government, led by prime minister Abdullah al-Thani, announced late on Thursday it had tendered its resignation to the elected parliament, days after a rival Islam...Published: 29 Aug 2014 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Grace Mugabe, Baba Jukwa and the Olympics of Power in Zimbabwe
One stubborn theme that has arrested the attention of philosophers and poets from the childhood of humanity to the present era of technologised witchcraft is the theme of illusion and reality. Whe...Published: 05 Aug 2014 at 19:08hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Crashed Air Algerie pilots asked to turn back
Paris - France said on Monday the pilots of the Air Algerie passenger plane that crashed in Mali, killing all 118 people on board, had asked to turn back, in a new development to a tough probe into th...Published: 28 Jul 2014 at 19:37hrs | | 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
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
Africa rescue our daughters from Boko Haram
It is now more than a month since the Boko Haram extremist group kidnapped more than two hundred (200) girls at a school in Nigeria and African leaders have failed to take any action meant to resc...Published: 16 May 2014 at 11:06hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Al-Qaeda Africa wing dreams global jihad but acts local
Washington - Armed extremist groups in North and West Africa may have pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda's vision of global jihad, but they act independently of its core command and have yet to make good ...Published: 16 Dec 2013 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe snubs France-Africa summit
Paris - At least 40 African leaders gather in Paris this week for a French-led summit on improving security on the unstable continent following France's military mission in Mali and a new one in the ...Published: 02 Dec 2013 at 04:02hrs | | by AFP
Nigeria airstrike kills 50 Islamist insurgents
Nigeria's military said that it may have killed more than 50 rebels in an airstrike on one of their main bases in the northeast of the country.The latest strikes on Thursday targeted Boko Hara...Published: 30 Nov 2013 at 07:10hrs | | by Reuters
40 people killed in an explosion in Libya
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya - More than 40 people were killed on Thursday in an explosion at an army depot in southern Libya after locals tried to steal ammunition, officials said, while four soldiers die...Published: 29 Nov 2013 at 02:54hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Malians vote in parliamentary election
Bamako - Millions of Malians were expected to vote on Sunday in parliamentary elections intended to cap the troubled West African nation's return to democracy but overshadowed by the threat of Islamis...Published: 24 Nov 2013 at 04:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Nigerian army kills 20 Boko Haram suspects
Lagos - Nigeria's army has killed 20 suspected members of Boko Haram in a renewed offensive against the Islamist insurgency, a military spokesperson said on Saturday."In the late hours of Frid...Published: 17 Nov 2013 at 05:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Kenyan soldiers caught on CCTV carrying loot out of the besieged mall
Nairobi - New CCTV footage from Nairobi's Westgate mall appears to shows Kenyan soldiers carrying loot out of the besieged mall, attacked exactly four weeks ago, the Nation newspaper reported on Satur...Published: 19 Oct 2013 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Powerful blast near Benghazi Swedish consulate
Benghazi - A car bomb exploded outside the Swedish consulate in the restive Libyan city of Benghazi Friday, seriously damaging the building but causing no casualties, a security official said....Published: 11 Oct 2013 at 10:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Libyan prime minister kidnapped by armed rebels
Libyan prime minister Ali Zeidan has been kidnapped from a hotel in Tripoli. Local media reported he was escorted at dawn by armed rebels from the Corinthia Hotel in the capital and take...Published: 10 Oct 2013 at 03:41hrs | | by The telegraph
'White widow' not part of Nairobi mall massacre claims al-Shabaab
Nairobi - Somalia's al-Shabaab Islamists insisted on Monday that no women joined them in an attack on Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall, dismissing speculation that British "white widow" Samantha Lewth...Published: 01 Oct 2013 at 03:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
39 people still missing after Nairobi Mall attack
Nairobi - Kenyan lawmakers investigating alleged security failings during the deadly assault on Nairobi's Westgate mall by Islamist gunmen inspected Monday the charred wreckage, where searches continu...Published: 01 Oct 2013 at 03:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Islamists kill 27 people in Nigeria
Maiduguri - Gunmen from Islamist group Boko Haram killed 27 villagers in two attacks in Nigeria's restive northeast this week, a government official said, as violence continued to flare in the face o...Published: 29 Sep 2013 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Nairobi mall nightmare continues
Nairobi - Kenyan army reinforcements were pouring into the area around an upmarket Nairobi shopping mall early on Sunday as operations to end a stand-off with Islamist rebels continued, an AFP corresp...Published: 22 Sep 2013 at 04:42hrs | | by AFP
Nigerian soldiers kill 10 Boko Haram Islamists
Maiduguri - Nigerian soldiers have killed 10 members of Islamist sect Boko Haram in the volatile northeast, the military said on Thursday, as President Goodluck Jonathan pursues a four-month-old offe...Published: 12 Sep 2013 at 10:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Three soldiers wounded in Mali army, rebels clash
Bamako - Three Malian soldiers were wounded in clashes with separatist Tuareg rebels on Wednesday, the army said, the first clashes since the two sides signed a ceasefire deal in June.The figh...Published: 12 Sep 2013 at 03:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
al-Shabaab Islamists claim Mogadishu blasts
Mogadishu - At least 18 people were killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday when two blasts ripped through a busy parking lot next to a restaurant, police said, in attacks quickly claimed b...Published: 08 Sep 2013 at 04:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Egyptian police fires tear gas at Islamist protesters
Cairo - Egyptian police fired tear gas at dozens of Islamist protesters in Cairo who heeded a call for rallies on Friday in support of ousted president Mohammed Morsi.About 35 protesters had a...Published: 30 Aug 2013 at 10:52hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tunisian protesters demand government to resign
Thousands of Tunisians have rallied in front of the National Assembly in the capital Tunis calling for the Islamist-led government to resign.The opposition National Salvation Front has called ...Published: 25 Aug 2013 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Hosni Mubarak's release adds more turmoil in Egypt
Cairo - Egypt's toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak was transferred from prison to house arrest at a military hospital on Thursday, in a move overshadowed by a blistering crackdown against his Islamist suc...Published: 23 Aug 2013 at 04:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Egyptian police end standoff at mosque
Cairo - Egyptian police cleared Islamist protesters from a Cairo mosque on Saturday after a standoff that included exchanges of fire, as the death toll from four days of violence surpassed 750....Published: 18 Aug 2013 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'We will push until we bring down this military coup' - Muslim Brotherhood
Cairo - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said on Thursday it would bring down the "military coup" but stressed it remained committed to a peaceful struggle, despite the heavy loss of life when government fo...Published: 15 Aug 2013 at 09:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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