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Simon Mann dies
Former British Army officer and mercenary Simon Mann, who was part of a coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea in 2004, has died of a heart attack while exercising, friends confirmed.The 72-year-ol...Published: 12 May 2025 at 19:58hrs | 1989 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean CIO's role in Simon Mann's arrest
Happyton Bonyongwe, Zimbabwe's former Director-General of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), has disclosed details about Zimbabwe's involvement in thwarting a 2004 mercenary-led coup attempt...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 16:21hrs | 2171 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo seal 8 agreements
Underpinned by ambitions to engage and re-engage the international community in pursuit of socio-economic development, President Mnangagwa, is in Equatorial Guinea for high-level discussions covering ...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military gets permit to export raw lithium
EMBATTLED state arms manufacturer, the Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI) has been controversially granted a special permit to export raw lithium by the government, a decision expected to inject life i...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 16:28hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa attends colourful Mbasogo inauguration
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa was among high profile dignitaries from several countries who joined thousands of local people here yesterday to witness the inauguration of Equatorial Guinea President, Teodoro Ob...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 05:09hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge arms smuggling saga: Fears Mnangagwa was main target
FEARS are mounting within President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inner security circle that the arms which were smuggled into the country through Beitbridge by a seasoned gun-runner without a consignee were m...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military commanders investigate Beitbridge arms saga
WHAT started as an arms smuggling racket by seasoned gun-runners who bungled their mission like amateurs has now deteriorated into a major political scandal maddening President Emmerson Mnangagwa and ...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 17:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe arms smuggling saga deepens as new details on the deal emerge
THE recent saga involving the botched smuggling of AK-47 assault rifles and scores of ammunition magazines is deepening as it takes a new political twist amid fresh details.Those close to Pres...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:18hrs | 61 | by Staff reporter
Mysterious AK-47 assault rifles were smuggled for Zimbabwe Presidential Guard?
THE deepening mystery behind the recent botched smuggling of AK-47 assault rifles and scores of ammunition magazines through Beitbridge border post - now playing out in the courts - has been unravelle...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:20hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
The weapon AK47 was invented in Africa and for Africa?
The AK 47 stands for Avtomat (Automatic) Kalashnikov: and 47 is the year in which it was invented. Mikael Kalashnikov is the sole inventor of AK47, he was at an early age obsessed with creating a sub-...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 12:40hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe soldiers to stay in Equatorial Guinea
ZIMBABWE will maintain its soldiers deployed in Equatorial Guinea to provide security to the country's leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo as well as train the West African nation's military, it has ...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 10:01hrs | 44 | by Staff reporter
UK in Zimbabwe: From tragedy to farce
A poetic cliché by Karl Marx which claims that in the life of nations "history repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce" does not only keep gaining new meanings for all countries but at ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 16:05hrs | 2 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Mbasogo pays tribute to Africa’s founding fathers
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Equatorial Guinea counterpart yesterday paid tribute to Africa's founding fathers who toiled to lay the foundation of a united, free and economically integrated co...Published: 26 May 2018 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Obiang Nguema to hold 'secret talks' with Mugabe
Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema is reportedly in Zimbabwe on a two day state visit, and is also expected to hold "secret talks" with ousted president Robert Mugabe.According ...Published: 25 May 2018 at 15:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must apologise for Gukurahundi genocide' - Tshinga Dube
THE Zimbabwe Independent this week engaged former minister, senior Zanu-PF official and liberation struggle fighter retired Colonel Tshinga Dube who usually speaks out his mind, including during ex-pr...Published: 04 May 2018 at 08:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe bunks UN indaba
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe reportedly skipped a key meeting to discuss proposals to reform the United Nations and instead privately met with his long-time pal, Equatorial Guinean leader Teodoro Obiang Ng...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 06:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
US billionaire George Soros 'plotted to overthrow' Obiang
Simon Mann, an ex-British mercenary, has accused US billionaire George Soros of plotting to overthrow Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema in 2011, AFP news agency is reporting....Published: 27 Jun 2017 at 16:13hrs | | by BBC
Zimbabwe fails to fly out Simon Mann's plane
ATTEMPTS by government to register a plane belonging to convicted mercenary Simon Mann arrested in Harare in 2004 with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) have failed after aviation...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 11:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wicknell pledged to supply mercenaries with weapons - report
CONTROVERSIAL businessman Wicknell Chivayo promised to help Simon Mann hijack a plane that was supposed to extradite the convicted mercenary to Equatorial Guinea by supplying a gun.Mann makes ...Published: 10 Apr 2016 at 08:01hrs | 12 | by Makomborero Mutimukulu
Impounded US plane had R60 billion cargo destined for SA Reserve Bank
INVESTIGATIONS have unearthed that the decomposing body found last week on a Western Global Airlines cargo plane at Harare International Airport was that of a stowaway, and that the craft was carrying...Published: 21 Feb 2016 at 07:10hrs | | by Brian Chitemba
Mugabe looking healthy
Zimbabwe's long-time leader Robert Mugabe is back home and he looks to be in good health ahead of a meeting with ally Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the president of Equatorial Guinea.Footage posted o...Published: 23 Jan 2016 at 14:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Nguema's shadowy cash deals
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe seems to be increasingly relying on Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo for financial bailouts that are not always in the public domain, but have been fil...Published: 18 Jul 2015 at 13:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Statesmanship embarrasses the West
President Robert Mugabe is a pronounced and decorated statesman who is propelled by a bedrock of principles which are built on a foundation of firm, unchanging, fundamental truths that form the very...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 12:16hrs | 1 | by Suitable Kajau
Mnangagwa meets E. Guinea envoy
A special envoy from Equatorial Guinea has paid a courtesy call on Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa at his offices in Harare to deliver a special message for the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugab...Published: 02 Jan 2015 at 15:25hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe can never partner CIA
The West's machinations aimed at tarnishing Zimbabwean image has this time gone farfetched by hatching an ill-conceived connection between the United State's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and ...Published: 15 Dec 2014 at 06:59hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba
Mugabe briefed on Lesotho
Lesotho is on course to regaining political stability following an attempted coup that rocked the Mountain Kingdom earlier this year, Sadc Chair President Mugabe has been told.This was sai...Published: 22 Nov 2014 at 09:36hrs | 2 | by Mabasa Sasa
AWB a threat to SA security
CAPE TOWN- South Africa is in danger of becoming Mexico or Colombia of Africa because of its failure to reign in extremist groups such as the right-wing Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), a neo-Nazi...Published: 05 Jun 2012 at 13:30hrs | 2 | by Thabo Kunene
Zim govt struck a deal with British mercenary to buy his Boeing 727 for $1
The Zimbabwean government struck a deal with British mercenary Simon Mann to buy his Boeing 727 aircraft for $1 as a condition for his release from prison. According to court papers, Mann coul...Published: 26 Jan 2012 at 12:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Equatorial Guinea leader departs after a surprise visit
Equatorial Guinea President, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has left Harare for his country after a two day official visit.Africa'S longest-ruling leader, Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Ngu...Published: 10 Jan 2012 at 15:53hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Mugabe back in Zim for an 'unannounced state visit'
Harare - President Robert Mugabe, is back home from the far east where he was on holiday.Mugabe was accompanied by the First Lady, Amai Grace Mugabe.President Mugabe was received at t...Published: 09 Jan 2012 at 17:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
The African condition: Of Imperialists, tyrants and puppets
Chief among the many challenges that confront the African continent are three evils that African thinkers and intellectuals must urgently find durable solutions to---The vicious scramble for Africa√...Published: 05 Jan 2012 at 09:20hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Colonists want to come back, look at North Africa: Mugabe
THE forthcoming African Union Summit to be hosted by Equatorial Guinea next month is critical in light of the machinations by Western countries in North Africa and the return of colonists in full forc...Published: 04 May 2011 at 06:13hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
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