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Mnangagwa flies to Ethiopia
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has arrived here in Ethiopia to attend the 37th ordinary session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) Summit.The President was received at the Bole International Airpo...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 15:23hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Record-breaking global migration - Unprecedented displacement spurs demand for people-focused solutions
On 14 June, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) issued his flagship annual report, Global Trends: Forced Displacement 2022. It states that by the end of 2022, the number of people displaced ...Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 13:14hrs | 442 | by Lansana Gberie
Sanctions on Zimbabwe are a human rights issue
The United States and her allies in the global North for a very long time, have presented, defined and projected themselves as champions of democracy and human rights defenders.Nothing could h...Published: 25 Sep 2023 at 09:18hrs | 746 | by Sam Matema
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 | 42 | by Staff reporter
Putin offers 50,000 tonne free grain to Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Thursday that his country was food-secure but was grateful for an offer of free grain from Russian President Vladimir Putin at a Russia-Africa summit in...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 20:15hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga decries escalating acts of terrorism in Africa
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga has decried escalating acts of terrorism in Africa saying it has become a "thorn in the flesh" for many governments.Addressing delegates at the official ope...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:56hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's precision-strike aircraft given Shona name 'Mwari'
The Paramount Group has produced and sold the first military aircraft made in South Africa since the 1980s when state-owned arms maker Denel SOC Ltd. unveiled the Rooivalk, or red falcon, attack helic...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 19:42hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
How the West is plotting to exploit Africa
IF designs of global money are not stopped in their tracks, Africa is threatened with environmental degradation and nutritional poverty. If we, as Africans, do not begin to think deeply about what is ...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 11 | by Linda Apollo
Why Zanu-PF is under siege
If Africans knew even half their history, they would understand the reason why they continue to stew in poverty, misery and disillusion while other parts of the world are swimming in prosperity, happi...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:59hrs | 9 | by Bishop Lazi
Referees to raise Zimbabwe flag at Cosafa Cup tourney
TWO Zimbabwean match officials, Rusape-based referee Brighton Chimene and assistant referee Brighton Nyika from Bulawayo will be among the 21 match officials at next month's Cosafa Cup in South Africa...Published: 29 Jun 2021 at 11:02hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
UK advances US$5,4m food assistance
MORE than 100 000 food-insecure people in the urban areas will benefit from the United Kingdom's pledge of £4 million (US$5,4 million) to help vulnerable families.Recent data revealed that ne...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 07:55hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Terrorist threat to region - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
President Mnangagwa has said Zimbabwe will help Mozambique in its struggle against Islamic terrorists in the north of the country. The Mozambiquan government has appealed for international assistance ...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:44hrs | 1 | by ZimVigil
Progress against virus brings complacency in parts of Zimbabwe
With Zimbabwe's coronavirus infections on the decline, schools are reopening, along with churches, bars, restaurants, airports and tourist attractions. Strict lockdowns designed to curb the disease ar...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 18:36hrs | | by Farai Mutsaka I Associated Press
FC Platinum in trouble
ZIMBABWE'S Premier Soccer League (PSL) champions FC Platinum are in a fix ahead of the 2020/2021 Caf Champions League edition, as they are likely to host their continental rivals on foreign soil follo...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:12hrs | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Climate change: Africa confronts global warming
New IPCC report projects greater temperature increases in the region than elsewhere Record global greenhouse gas emissions are putting the world on a p...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 14:50hrs | 1366 | by Dan Shepard
Cry my beloved Dynamos
As a staunch Dynamos supporter, my heart bled profusely when I looked at the current Premier Soccer League log standing where Dynamos is fighting relegation.Dynamos Football Club popularly kno...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Paul Kagame pleads Mnangagwa's case
AFRICAN Union (AU) chairperson and Rwandan leader, Paul Kagame has made an impassioned plea for the international community to give Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa "a chance" to allow the coun...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Graft, insecurity dominate AU Summit
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa today joins his counterparts from across the continent for the official opening of the 31st Ordinary Session of the African Union Summit, whose proceedings started on Friday with a...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
2018 New Year Message: African Union
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, January 1, 2018/ -- 2017 has been a particularly eventful year, with the assumption of duty of a new Commission. I have had the privilege of serving with a diverse group of indi...Published: 01 Jan 2018 at 16:23hrs | | by APO
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 | | by Tafi Mhaka
Khama Billiat misses Sundowns, Casablanca tie
AFRICAN champions Mamelodi Sundowns are without three significant attacking options as they prepare to host Wydad Casablanca in the quarter-final of the African Champions League on Sunday.Kham...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 10:15hrs | | by BBC
Caps United dislodge Dembare
DESPITE bowing out of the CAF Champions League in the group stages, CAPS United have made giant strides on the CAF Club rankings by moving from 51st to 24th position and the Green Machine are now Zimb...Published: 13 Jul 2017 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpandare is paradoxically blocking players from playing for the warriors
I am happy ladies and gentlemen who love this most beautiful game of football/soccer that is always never short of feelings,hatred and emotions.The reason why I am happy is not because of my h...Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 20:15hrs | | by Wilson Chipangura
Khama Billiat among nominees for Africa's finest
Nominees for 2016 African player of the year and African based player of the year awards.African player of the year1. Ahmed Musa (Nigeria & Leicester City)2. Andre Ayew (Gh...Published: 15 Oct 2016 at 19:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Lansana Gberie
Tell no lies, claim no easy victories!
The articles we have been publishing on the Facebook page, 15 years later have sought to live up to this commitment – to be "a combatant for the truth, for the liberation of the minds of the people ...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Thabo Mbeki
Propaganda and the pursuit of hegemonic goals - The Myanmar & Zimbabwe experience
February 29, 2016Much has been written about how much the so-called international community expected the new South Africa born in 1994 to lead the campaign for respect of human rights especially i...Published: 29 Feb 2016 at 13:36hrs | | by Thabo Mbeki
From Jacob Zuma to Mugabe with love . . .
I FIRST met President Robert Mugabe at the airport in Maputo, Mozambique when he had just been released from prison in 1974. He was with Mr Joshua Nkomo and they were on their way to Geneva where nego...Published: 21 Feb 2016 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jacob Zuma hails Mugabe's leadership
President Mugabe has provided Africa with "keen leadership" and the continent has much to learn from him, South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has said.In an interview with The Sunday Mail ahea...Published: 21 Feb 2016 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Towards a unified African market
For several years, experts from the three largest trading blocs in Africa - the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the East African Community (EAC) and the Common Market for Eastern and So...Published: 20 Jan 2016 at 21:04hrs | | by Sara Canals
Cameroon deports 2 000 Nigerians
Yaounde - Cameroon has deported more than 2 000 Nigerians who were living in the country illegally as part of new security measures intended to prevent suicide attacks by Boko Haram jihadists, sources...Published: 01 Aug 2015 at 12:27hrs | | by Agencies
Respect term limits, says French President
COTONOU - French President Francois Hollande last week urged African leaders to respect their constitutional term limits amid concerns that some are prepared to risk political instability in order to ...Published: 06 Jul 2015 at 08:28hrs | | by Reuters
Germany invites Zimbabwe delegation to Berlin for debt talks
The Government will send a technical team to Germany in the near future to discuss the country's debt to the European country and ways on resolving it.The country owes international financial ...Published: 24 Mar 2015 at 21:06hrs | | by Rumbidzai Zinyuke
Mugabe jets out to Algeria
President Robert Mugabe has left Harare for Algeria on a four day state visit that is set to cement the existing bilateral ties between the two countries.President Mugabe was seen off at the H...Published: 24 Mar 2015 at 12:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe flies out again
PRESIDENT Mugabe is set to leave for Algeria today on a four-day State visit aimed at enhancing economic and political co-operation between Zimbabwe and the North African country.The Preside...Published: 23 Mar 2015 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
German Director for Sub-Saharan Africa to visit Zimbabwe
The Director General for Sub-Saharan Africa and Sahel of the German Federal Foreign Office, Ambassador Georg Schmidt will visit Zimbabwe from tomorrow (23 March) to March 24 to meet government of ...Published: 22 Mar 2015 at 10:43hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe likely to face a huge workload in 2015
As he edges closer to 91, many Zimbabweans question the ability of President Robert Mugabe to meet the obligations of his office – let alone the regional and African leadership roles awaiting him in...Published: 20 Jan 2015 at 19:55hrs | | by Anadolu Agency
'I am very confident with what we have,' Mapeza says
FC PLATINUM coach Norman Mapeza is not losing sleep over missed signings as he prepares for the Caf Confederation Cup with the December 31 deadline for the registration of players looming.The ...Published: 27 Dec 2014 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Military seizes power in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso descended into political chaos on Thursday as the military seized power, dissolving the government and parliament after a day of violent protests in the capital. The landlocked we...Published: 31 Oct 2014 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by FT
A leaders' summit without African leadership
The entry of US President Barack Obama in 2009 was characterised by inflated and buoyant expectations by most Africans that the Washington song would be sweet melody for the rest of the continent....Published: 11 Aug 2014 at 11:03hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
There is energy momentum in Africa
Under-Secretary-General Kandeh Yumkella is the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Chief Executive for the Sustainable Energy for All initiative. H...Published: 17 May 2014 at 07:39hrs | | by Kandeh Yumkella
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
Climate change migration in Zimbabwe
A community meeting at a remote business centre south-east of the city of Mutare in September this year was highly charged. Villagers from some parts of Mpudzi Resettlement Scheme in Mutare distri...Published: 06 Nov 2013 at 03:13hrs | 5289 | by Andrew Mambondiyani
Shea butter nourishes opportunities for African women
Fair trade brings decent profits to millions In a fancy Manhattan hotel in New York, women in colorful traditional African gowns make their way to ...Published: 18 Oct 2013 at 14:24hrs | 1 | by Rebecca Moudio
The African Union welcomes the smooth holding of the Second round of the Presidential Election in Mali
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, warmly welcomes the successful holding of the second round of the presidential ele...Published: 14 Aug 2013 at 13:19hrs | | by APO
African Union celebrates Golden Jubilee
THE African Union today achieves the milestone of 50 years of existence and over 50 African heads of state and governments, along with 41 former leaders, will be joined by global leaders to celebrate ...Published: 25 May 2013 at 03:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean situation deliberations struck off the AU agenda
The African Union has ignored calls for the inclusion of Zimbabwe on the summit agenda.Sadc leaders also met yesterday on the sidelines of the summit but chose to discuss the volatile situati...Published: 28 Jan 2013 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa: Divided, ruled, for now
Last week I gave you a perspective steeped in history. I am grateful for the polite responses I got, whether by way of counter-arguments or by way of polemical affirmations. Either way, the responses ...Published: 26 Jan 2013 at 09:30hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Climate change: Africa is still on the receiving end
A UN climate change conference in Doha, Qatar, concluded in December 2012 with a new agreement called the "Doha Climate Gateway." Its major achievements include the further extension until 2020 of...Published: 26 Jan 2013 at 04:59hrs | | by Richard Munang and Zhen Han
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