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You can't rig suffering Zimbabweans, Mr. Mnangagwa!
The debate rages on as to President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's true intentions regarding his stay in power. Is he stepping down as demanded by the country's Constitution at the end of his t...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 20:04hrs | 1012 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe @42 where exactly did we go wrong?
It really pains me when I look at what my country has become today four decades into independence. We have regressed so much.I couldn't think that one day I would board a plane to a war torn c...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 12:40hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Economic attitudes, poverty of mind
THE psychological cost of economic insecurity in Africa today is a damning indictment of poverty and how it warps the way we see our challenges and how to resolve them.It seems when poverty hi...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 7 | by Anotida Chikumbu
Warriors respectful of minnows on World Cup return
WARRIORS coach Joey Antipas is treating Somalia with respect despite their low-ranking and profile in world football ahead of their first leg preliminary round of the 2022 World Cup qualifier to be pl...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri justifies army crackdown
AGRICULTURE minister and former Air Force boss Perrance Shiri has defended the deployment of soldiers in the ongoing military crackdown on citizens following nationwide protests recently.Shiri...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Quick austerity measures to avert imminent economic collapse
Austerity is described as sternness, severity of manner or attitude. In other manner it is described difficult economic conditions created by the Government measures to reduce public expenditure. The ...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 20:27hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Motlanthe Commission chief witness attacked
One of the key witnesses in the Kgalema Motlanthe led Commission of Inquiry Makomborero Haruzivishe has reported that he has been attacked by six unknown assailants in Harare. "I have just be...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 19:30hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Woman with '11 husbands' stoned to death
A woman has been stoned to death in Somalia after a court run by al-Shabab convicted her of having several husbands, the militant group says.Shukri Abdullahi Warsame was accused of marrying 11...Published: 10 May 2018 at 18:52hrs | | by BBC
Jonathan Moyo laughs at a meme that has gone viral on social media
Former Higher Education Minister Jonathan Moyo has laughed at a meme that is circulating on social media portraying him as in Mogadishu.Moyo said, "I just got this from one of my dope daughter...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Somali journalist dies after suicide bomber targets café
Nairobi - Somali broadcast journalist Abdullahi Osman Moalim died yesterday from injuries sustained on September 10 when a suicide bomber attacked a café in Beldweyne where members of the press gathe...Published: 14 Sep 2017 at 16:18hrs | | by CPJ
#AsifuniBumbuluCampaign update : Highlanders Somalia fans keen to donate
HIGHLANDERS supporters had by Thursday raised more than $500 in anticipation of a hefty fine by the Premier Soccer League disciplinary committee.This follows the abandonment of the leagu...Published: 20 May 2017 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The United States Strongly Condemns the Assassination of Somali Journalist
WASHINGTON DC - The United States strongly condemns the September 27 assassination of Somali journalist Abdiaziz Mohamed Ali in Mogadishu. Mr Ali worked f...Published: 29 Sep 2016 at 11:30hrs | | by APO
United States Condemns Terrorist Attacks in Somalia
The United States strongly condemns the terrorist attacks carried out today against the Ministry of Transport in Mogadishu and government offices in Galkaayo...Published: 22 Aug 2016 at 10:22hrs | | by APO
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
Somalia attacks expose US 'hunger' to dominate Africa
On March 7 the Pentagon announced that it had killed 150 members of the Al-Shabaab guerrilla movement in a bombing operation in Somalia.These military actions are part and parcel of a broader ...Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 05:29hrs | | by Abayomi Azikiwe
Boutros Boutros-Ghali dies
NEW YORK - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who served as the United Nations secretary-general between 1992 and 1996, has died at the age of 93, the UN Security Council announced yesterday.Venezuela's U...Published: 17 Feb 2016 at 05:31hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Car bomb kills broadcast journalist in Somalia
New York, December 3, 2015 - A Somali journalist with state-run media was killed today in Mogadishu when a bomb blew up her car, according to news reports. Hindia Haji Mohamed was the widow of another...Published: 03 Dec 2015 at 22:54hrs | | by CPJ
FAJ calls on AU and governments to end impunity for journalists' killers in Africa
The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the Africa Group of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on the african Union and governments to end impunity for journalists' kill...Published: 03 Nov 2015 at 12:17hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Welshman Ncube rips into Zuma
MDC leader, Welshman Ncube has lashed out at his in-law, South Africa President Jacob Zuma saying Zuma's statements on xenophobic attacks were unfortunate and must have been directed at unreservedly...Published: 29 Apr 2015 at 17:34hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
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
Kenya destroys two al-Shabaab camps
The Kenyan air force has destroyed two al-Shabaab camps in Somalia, it said on Monday, in the first major military response since the Islamist group massacred students at a Kenyan university last week...Published: 07 Apr 2015 at 11:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Serious threat, 'Kenya's cities will run red with blood'
Mogadishu - Somali militants on Saturday threatened to stage more bloody attacks on Kenya after the group's fighters killed nearly 150 people during an assault on a Kenyan university on Thursday....Published: 04 Apr 2015 at 13:29hrs | | by Reuters
Al-Shabab launches attack on Somali parliament
The armed group al-Shabab launched an assault on the Somali parliament in Mogadishu, setting off a car bomb and storming the complex in an attack which killed at least four people.Fighters on ...Published: 24 May 2014 at 15:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bravery in the DRC, A Zimbabwean fighter pilot recounts
FIGHTING a war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, thousands of miles away from their homeland and sharing trenches with unpredictable allies who crossed the floor in the heat of the storm, Zimbabwea...Published: 17 Mar 2014 at 13:01hrs | 9 | by Tawanda Kanhema
We will not negotiate with anyone - al-Shabab
al-Shabab spokesperson: • threatens government employees and Turkish nationals • denies al-Shabab has been ...Published: 24 Feb 2014 at 16:58hrs | | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
Nairobi mall terrorist attack - death toll rises to 59
Islamist militants were holed up with hostages on Sunday at a shopping mall in Nairobi, where at least 59 people have been killed in an attack by the al Shabaab group that opposes Kenya's participatio...Published: 22 Sep 2013 at 13:08hrs | 1 | by Reuters
Security Council Press Statement on Somalia
NEW YORK - The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gary Quinlan ( Australia):On 12 September, the United Nations Security Council was briefe...Published: 16 Sep 2013 at 14:26hrs | | by APO
Two Somali reporters slightly Wounded in Saturday's Suicide bombing Attack
MOGADISHU, Somalia - The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has learned that two Somali reporters were slightly wounded on Saturday's suicide bombing attack at the village restaurant that ki...Published: 09 Sep 2013 at 10:42hrs | | by APO
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
Deadly blasts hit Mogadishu's Village restaurant
Mogadishu - A car bomb and suspected suicide bomber struck a popular restaurant in the Somali capital on Saturday, killing at least 18 people, Ahmed Nur, a senior police officer at the scene, told R...Published: 07 Sep 2013 at 11:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Uprooting the causes of conflicts
Momentum in post-conflict peacebuilding in Africa On 11 July 2011, when South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and his 8.3 million compatriots celebrate...Published: 07 Sep 2013 at 05:59hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor
Somalia president escapes unhurt from an al Qaeda-linked militants attack
Somalia's president escaped unhurt from an ambush on his military-escorted motorcade on Tuesday that al Qaeda-linked militants said they carried out.President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was approa...Published: 03 Sep 2013 at 10:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Military aircraft burst into flames at Somali airport
Mogadishu - A military aircraft burst into flames moments after landing at the international airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday, sending a thick plume of black smoke into the sky, airpo...Published: 09 Aug 2013 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Obama warns tyrants in Africa, condemns the rule of Mugabe
Cape Town - US President Barack Obama warned on Sunday that Africa could only fulfil its rising potential with leaders who serve their people, not tyrants who enrich themselves.In a strident ...Published: 30 Jun 2013 at 18:16hrs | | by AFP
10 people killed in Somali fight
Mogadishu - At least 10 people were killed on Saturday in fresh fighting between militias loyal to rival self-declared leaders in the key Somali port city of Kismayo.Six civilians were among ...Published: 09 Jun 2013 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Communique of the 375th PSC meeting on the situation in Somalia
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU), at its 375th meeting held on 10 May 2013, adopted the following decision on the situation in Somalia:...Published: 16 May 2013 at 06:42hrs | | by APO
Car bomb claims seven in Mogadishu
Mogadishu - Seven people were killed Sunday morning when a suicide bomber attempted to ram a car laden with explosives into a military convoy escorting a four-member Qatari delegation.General ...Published: 06 May 2013 at 04:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Somali journalist shot dead outside his home in Mogadishu
A Somali journalist working for the government broadcaster was shot dead outside his home in the capital Mogadishu on Sunday, the fourth reporter to be murdered in the country this year, the union of ...Published: 23 Apr 2013 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Somalia: UN rights expert urges Govt to strengthen justice system despite Sunday's attacks
GENEVA - The United Nations Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, Shamsul Bari, condemned in the strongest terms Sunday's deadly bomb and gun attacks at the Banadir Regional...Published: 17 Apr 2013 at 06:29hrs | | by APO
Journalist jail for interviewing 'gang-rape' victim, freed
Mogadishu - A Somali judge on Sunday freed a journalist who was jailed last month for interviewing an alleged gang-rape victim in a case that sparked international condemnation over how Somali authori...Published: 17 Mar 2013 at 15:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Somali militant group posts pic of dead French soldier
Mogadishu - A Somali militant group has posted photos of what appears to be a dead French soldier.Two photos posted by an al-Shabaab-run Twitter account show a man wearing military pants and ...Published: 14 Jan 2013 at 13:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Ugandan military helicopters missing in Kenya
Kampala - A number of Ugandan military helicopters went missing in Kenyan airspace on Sunday on their way to Somalia to reinforce African Union peacekeeping forces battling al-Shabaab rebels, the...Published: 13 Aug 2012 at 05:15hrs | | by Reuters
AMISOM committed to supporting Somalia one year after liberation of Mogadishu
MOGADISHU, Somalia - As Somalia today marks the first anniversary of the liberation of the capital, Mogadishu, from Al Qaeda affiliated terrorists, the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the...Published: 07 Aug 2012 at 09:44hrs | | by APO
Radio Journalist escapes 'assassination bid'
MOGADISHU, Somalia - A Radio journalist for one of the broadcast media houses in Garowe, capital of Puntland Regional State of Somalia escaped assassination Thursday evening when armed men attacked hi...Published: 03 Aug 2012 at 03:56hrs | | by APO
Comedian shot dead for poking fun at Islamists
Gunmen shot dead a well-known comedian known for poking fun at Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents in the Somali capital Mogadishu, officials and colleagues said.Abdi Jeylani Malaq Marshale, in...Published: 02 Aug 2012 at 09:04hrs | | by Sapa-AFP
Zimbabwe rated eighth most dangerous country in African
Global Peace Index has recently released a report on global ranking of countries according to their dangerousness, a dozen African countries are among the most affected by war, terrorism and political...Published: 29 Jun 2012 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Al Qaeda group offers rewards of chickens, camels for info on Obama, Clinton
A Somali Islamist militant group is offering rewards of chickens and camels for information on the whereabouts of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, mocking the millions of...Published: 11 Jun 2012 at 07:32hrs | | by Reuters
SA man gunned down while on a govt mission in Somalia
Mogadishu - A South African security trainer was killed by his bodyguard in Somalia's semiautonomous region of Puntland, officials said on Saturday.Puntland's government said in a statement on...Published: 28 Apr 2012 at 16:59hrs | 1 | by AP
Gunmen shoot, injure Somali journalist
New York - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Sunday's shooting of radio journalist Mohyadin Hassan Mohamed in the capital, Mogadishu, and calls on authorities to ensure his safety....Published: 26 Mar 2012 at 21:26hrs | | by CPJ
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