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Prosecutors seek death penalty for 3 Americans implicated in foiled DRC coup
Prosecutors on Tuesday called for 50 people, including three Americans, to face the death penalty for what the Congolese army says was a coup attempt earlier this year.Military prosecutor Lieu...Published: 31 Aug 2024 at 15:36hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
JSC recommends tribunal to probe justice Ndewere
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has recommended a tribunal to investigate whether or not High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere was fit to hold office after discovering she was not clearing her ...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala bail Judge tells CJ Malaba to 'Get off my back'
SUSPENDED High Court judge justice Erica Ndewere is paying the price for reportedly refusing to take orders from Chief Justice Luke Malaba, reminding him that the Constitution does not make provision ...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
South JetOne demands US$50m for planes' software from Air Zimbabwe
THE two Airbus A320 planes at the centre of a wrangle between Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) and an Isle of Man company, South JetOne Ltd, were leased to the troubled airline with the latter demanding a US$50 ...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe, South Jet fight over planes
TROUBLED Air Zimbabwe is involved in a tug of war with Isle of Man company South Jet One Ltd over the ownership of two Airbus A320 aircrafts which the state entity claims it was given as a donation in...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
DRC fugitive rebel leader Sheka surrenders
The founder and leader of a Democratic Republic of Congo rebel group who is wanted for crimes against humanity has surrendered, the UN mission in Congo has said.Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka, the founde...Published: 29 Jul 2017 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chiyangwa saga drags in lawyers, High Court judge
Businessman, Philip Chiyangwa on Thursday insisted that the $3,4 million sale of Hinton Ville land to the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) was done above board, with the authority's executive...Published: 15 Jul 2017 at 11:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chiyangwa sold land he didn't own'
CHEGUTU Municipality's 1974 council records have confirmed that the 529-hectare piece of land reportedly sold to the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) by businessman, Philip Chiyangwa belongs ...Published: 13 Jul 2017 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T sell cars to bail out Tsvangirai
MDC-T has sacrificed three vehicles to save party leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's house in Strathaven, Harare, from being auctioned over $55 000 owed to a local bank.The broke politician had his...Published: 08 Sep 2016 at 06:38hrs | | by Court Reporter
Chiyangwa to lose property from his Borrowdale mansion over $4m debt
Zifa president Phillip Chiyangwa is set to lose property from his Borrowdale mansion after the now-defunct Interfin Bank obtained a writ of execution against him to recover over $4 million in debts....Published: 12 Dec 2015 at 16:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai defaults on $60k bank loan, issued summons
Zimbabwe's former Prime Minister and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is currently locked in a legal battle with a local financial institution over a $60 000 loan.AfrAsia Bank recently issu...Published: 30 May 2015 at 17:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Murderer survives 3 suicide attempts
A Chitungwiza murderer, Obert Maninji (37), stabbed himself on the chest, took an overdose of malaria tablets and drank rat poison in a suicide attempt-but still survived to face his crimes.Th...Published: 11 May 2015 at 16:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ebola: Fighting a deadly virus
Weak national healthcare systems and few medical staff struggle to cope The sight of an Ebola patient is frightening. Sharon Washington, an employ...Published: 24 Dec 2014 at 18:00hrs | | by Sulaiman Momodu
Lawyer sues for defamation
A senior Harare lawyer is demanding $35 000 from a fellow lawyer who he claimed defamed and "extorted" money from him.Tinofara Kudakwashe Hove has since filed a High Court application under ca...Published: 12 Sep 2014 at 13:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Headman, Chombo to meet in court
A Gutu headman has taken Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Dr Ignatius Chombo to court challenging his decision to split his area of jurisdiction and to appoint another head...Published: 10 Sep 2014 at 08:56hrs | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Prophet T.B. Joshua warns ebola victims
As panic over the outbreak of the deadly Ebola disease continues to rise, Prophet T.B. Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), has asked those infected with the disease to remain in the...Published: 08 Aug 2014 at 19:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors warned of global Ebola outbreak after patient allowed on plane out of Liberia
Doctors fear Ebola victim Patrick Sawyer may have sparked a worldwide spread of the killer disease after being allowed on two flights while infected.And today a desperate race is on to find do...Published: 31 Jul 2014 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Nigeria shuts down, quarantines Lagos Ebola hospital
Lagos - The Nigerian city of Lagos on Monday shut down and quarantined a hospital where a man died of Ebola in the first recorded case of the highly infectious disease in Africa's most populous countr...Published: 28 Jul 2014 at 19:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chombo sued over headmanship
A Gutu man has taken Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Ignatius Chombo to court accusing his office of illegally snatching the Mataruse headmaship title from him last month....Published: 10 Feb 2014 at 17:08hrs | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Statement of the Africa Forum on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Statement of the Africa Forum on the situation in the Syrian Arab RepublicWe, members of the Forum for Former African Heads of State and Government, commonly referr...Published: 09 Sep 2013 at 10:46hrs | | by APO
ICC call for swift transfer of DRC warlord to The Hague
The Hague - The International Criminal Court (ICC) called on Tuesday for the swift transfer of wanted DR Congo warlord Bosco Ntaganda to The Hague after his shock surrender to the US embassy in Kigali...Published: 19 Mar 2013 at 14:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mujuru business empire following apart
JUST over a year after the death of former army commander General Solomon Mujuru in a mysterious firestorm, his sprawling business empire - meticulously built over 30 years - has started crumbling wit...Published: 04 Sep 2012 at 12:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Aretha Franklin celebrates her 70th birthday
New York - Aretha Franklin has a lot more than her 70th birthday to celebrate: She says she's reuniting with one of her music mentors, Clive Davis, for a new album.Franklin told The Associate...Published: 25 Mar 2012 at 10:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Whitney Houston dies at 48
Whitney Houston, a willowy church singer with a towering voice who became a titan of the pop charts in the 1980s and 1990s but then saw much of her success crumble away amid the fumes of addiction ...Published: 12 Feb 2012 at 16:59hrs | | by Geoff Boucher, Los Angeles Times
African Peer Review Mechanism is making progress
Interview with Amos Sawyer In 2003 the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), the continental development ...Published: 08 Feb 2012 at 06:16hrs | | by Ernest Harsch
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