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US presence in the SADC region spooks African countries
The recent statements by General Michael Langley, Commander of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), claiming that the US approach in Africa is "African-led but US-enabled," have heightened anxi...Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean airports shut over bomb scare
ZIMBABWEAN airports were yesterday forced to shut down following a "possible bomb threat" at Victoria Falls International Airport, which resulted in President Emmerson Mnangagwa cancelling his trip to...Published: 02 Mar 2024 at 07:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Airports operating normally after bomb, firearms threat
THE country's airports are now operating normally and stakeholders should use them without any reservations after the country's security systems were put on high alert yesterday in response to reports...Published: 02 Mar 2024 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe declares 'heightened alert'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa aborted landing at Victoria Falls International Airport on Friday and his private jet returned to Harare after authorities were warned of a "credible bomb or firearm threa...Published: 01 Mar 2024 at 19:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in bomb scare
A BOMB scare at Victoria Falls International Airport has forced President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Falcon 7X aircraft to be turned back to Harare.Mnangagwa was expected to attend the closing cerem...Published: 01 Mar 2024 at 18:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has officially become a pariah state!
The Government of Zimbabwe has officially become a tyranny - fraught with all the legislative tools to be justifiably labelled a pariah state.By the country's Parliament passing the much-loath...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:43hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe has officially become a pariah state!
By the country's Parliament passing the much-loathed so-called ‘Patriotic Bill', Zimbabwe has effectively joined the unenviable international ‘Hall of Shame' - joining other nations, such as North...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 19:09hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Does Zimbabwe need the Commonwealth?
ZIMBABWE joined the Commonwealth in 1980 after gaining independence from Britain - in what appeared to be a major victory for the Commonwealth. Twenty-three years down the road, Zimbabwe quit the Comm...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 2 | by Vusi Nyamazana
Ramaphosa slams US for 'panic-driven' Sandton terror alert
President Cyril Ramaphosa has criticised the US, saying it jumped the gun by issuing a terror alert for Sandton, Johannesburg, before speaking to local authorities.The US embassy on Wednesday ...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must deploy border guards as extremism fears mount - report
WHILE Zimbabwe currently enjoys relative peace and harmony, the state should immediately deploy border guards at ports of entry and strengthen terrorism laws amid concern that the outbreak of the viol...Published: 05 Oct 2022 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 28 | by Dumisani Muleya
'Terrorist attacks can't be ruled out in Zimbabwe' UK says
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has on its official website told its citizens travelling to Zimbabwe that they should not rule out terrorists attack in the country because of ...Published: 22 Apr 2022 at 12:36hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Russia optimistic on Zimbabwe investments despite war
RUSSIA is bullish about its investment prospects in Zimbabwe despite the current economic restrictions triggered by the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine by Russia. The Zimbabwe Independen...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 17:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
UK terrorism trial of MDC activist starts; 'urged' bombing of Mnangagwa motorcade, Zanu-PF HQ
A Zimbabwean activist called on his followers to carry out terrorist attacks to overthrow his country's regime in a series of speeches, a court heard.William Chinyanga, 51, is accused of encou...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:39hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Govt, NGOs showdown looms
A FIERCE battle between government and civil society is looming over the recently gazetted Private Voluntary Organisation (PVOs) Amendment Bill, with pro-democracy groups slamming the government for a...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:54hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Sadc renews call against Zimbabwe sanctions
SADC yesterday reiterated calls for the unconditional lifting of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe and urged the world to support reforms that are underway. It commended President Mnangagwa for helping ma...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
SADC to deploy troops to help Mozambique contain insurgency
Recently in Maputo, Mozambique SADC member states have resolved to deploy a force to help Mozambique contain insurgency in its northern provinces where terrorists have left a trail of destruction that...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The security and political economy dimensions of the Mozambican insurgency
Southern Africa was recognised for a long time as one of the most pacific region in Africa but recent events that have been transpiring in Mozambique have proved that the stability of ...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Wallace K Musakanyi
Jonathan Moyo to undergo head surgery after his book excelgate
The Zimbabwean and international space has been congested by Jonathan Moyo posting Twitter messages designed to bring Zimbabwe's reputation into disrepute. Professor Jonathan Moyo has dedicated his ti...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 22:07hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa to participate in Double Troika summit
An Extraordinary Double Troika SADC Summit will be held today in Maputo, Mozambique to discuss the insecurity in the Cabo Delgado province of that country.The summit brings together the SADC T...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean secrets leaked to a high profile sexivist
Zimbabwe has once again woken up to some Twitter messages sent by the ever attention seeking Susa Mutami. It is important to understand who Susan Mutami is. She is if you remember the official mistres...Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 07:04hrs | 7 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa threatens Mozambique terrorists
ROBUST action will be taken against insurgents in neighbouring Mozambique as an attack on any member state is an attack on all, while in Zimbabwe Zanu-PF structures should ensure communities are on hi...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
We cannot sit back, watch Mozambique terror, says Mnangagwa
ROBUST action will be taken against insurgents in neighbouring Mozambique as an attack on any member state is an attack on all, while in Zimbabwe Zanu PF structures should ensure communities are on hi...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 06:37hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
Mozambique terrorists murder Zimbabwean man
Zimbabwean Nyasha Mugwagwa, who was among the 12 people killed in Palma, Mozambique, when armed criminals who claim allegiance to a terrorist group ISIS that attacked the town, has been buried by Moza...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:20hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Another Zimbabwean survivor tells of horrific scenes in Cabo Delgado
A brief background of PalmaPalma is a coastal town located far north of Cabo Delgado province in Mozambique. It is very close to the Tanzanian boarder, 20 kilometres away.Since the dis...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:30hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe troops ready for war
Zimbabwean troops are girding for war after President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other regional leaders agreed an "immediate technical deployment" to help Mozambique fight Islamic insurgents who have rece...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:01hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
SADC to deploy in Mozambique
SADC will urgently resuscitate and capacitate its Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) in order to facilitate deployment in Mozambique, which is presently under siege from insurgents that claim to be affi...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:13hrs | 7 | by Staff repporter
Mnangagwa, Sadc leaders in crucial Moza indaba
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will tomorrow join other Southern African Development Community (Sadc) leaders in a crucial regional meeting to map a strategy to fight Islamist militants in Mozambique's ...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:56hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pilot makes waves in US
GROWING up in the dusty streets of Highfield in Harare more than 40 years ago, Felix Chiota would gaze in awe at the sky each time an airplane flew over his neighbourhood. At a young age, Chio...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Sadc brace for Mozambique war
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday flew to Mozambique to meet other Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) leaders as they plotted strategies to intervene in northern Mozambique insurgency t...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Business sabotaging Zimbabwe economy
Tales of the liberation struggle for Zimbabwe bring out, among other issues, how important a good operating environment is for one to thrive in their endeavors. We are told of how the guerrillas regar...Published: 29 May 2019 at 12:20hrs | | by Mapozho Saruchera
Load shedding and the long fuel queues
Zimbabwe has been gripped by the shortage of food stuffs unprecedented price hikes of two hundred percent and fuel drought. Each and every Zimbabwean feels the sharp impact of the economic chaos and s...Published: 20 May 2019 at 10:57hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa and Mnangagwa mourn Sri Lanka martyrs
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his nemesis MDC President Nelson Chamisa have mourned the people of Sri Lanka who passed away after a series of coordinated explosions rocked churches and h...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 19:50hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe was right in shutting down the internet
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights took the government to court with the Zimbabwean chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa, ZLHR. Access to Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp and Twitter was closed...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 13:52hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Zimbabwe was right to block internet'
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Mr Nick Mangwana says the move by government to block internet connectivity at the height of the terrorist a...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 00:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why prices are going wild?
Zimbabwe has been gripped by the shortage of food stuffs unprecedented price hikes of two hundred percent and fuel drought. Each and every Zimbabwean feels the sharp impact of the economic chaos and s...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 07:28hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Terrorism won't stop elections, says Chiwenga
ACTING President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday urged Zimbabweans to remain vigilant in the face of the terror attack at White City Stadium in Bulawayo on Saturday and reiterated that the country was ...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Was Mnangagwa really meant to be killed - or was it something else?
I am not an explosives expert, or a security fundi, but the explosion that rocked ZANU PF and Zimbabwe President Emmerson Dambudzo Mangwana's rally yesterday raises more questions than answers, as it ...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 08:09hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
RBZ to keep a watchful eye on NGOs
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Financial Intelligence Unit Deputy Director, Oliver Chiperesa, has said that government will employ monitoring mechanisms to ensure that Non-Governmental Organisatio...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:40hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Human profits of decoloniality at large
It was about to be a planetary truism that our world has become an information and even knowledge society.In the present age of technological magic, the century of the social media and era of ...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 12:01hrs | 8 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
The African Union strongly condemns the terrorist attacks in Tehran
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AU), H.E. Mr. Moussa Faki Mahamat, expresses dismay at the simultaneous gun and suicide bomb attacks on Iran's Parliament Build...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 09:04hrs | | 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
Government warns instigators of violence
Government will not allow a few individuals feeding on the Western trough to cause confusion and anarchy in the country as part of the illegal regime change agenda, Information, Media and Broadcasting...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 06:31hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe
Of protests, puppets and parochialism
NEO-COLONIALISM has and continues to be a stealthy yet salient cancer on the African and in particular, the Zimbabwean political landscape. The West's mantra of the ineptitude of African governments a...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Mpumelelo Nyoni
Attempted military coup is underway in Turkey
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan publicly reassured citizens early Saturday in Istanbul after a chaotic night in which factions of Turkey's military said they had taken control of the country. E...Published: 16 Jul 2016 at 07:44hrs | 2 | by time
Car bomb kills 4 people in Benghazi
Security and medical officials say a car bomb has gone off outside a hospital in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing four people and wounding 14.Senior military official Brigadier-Gen...Published: 14 Jul 2016 at 23:57hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
SA hits out at US ambassador in 'war on terror' alert
JOHANNESBURG - The South African government's international relations spokesperson Clayson Monyela has hit out at the US embassy on Twitter, saying its terror alerts caused "panic".This co...Published: 06 Jun 2016 at 06:29hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Terrorist attacks in SA shopping malls - US warns
Terrorist groups are planning to carry out attacks in South Africa, specifically targeting shopping malls, the US embassy has warned.The embassy published a statement on its website on Satur...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 00:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
National Pledge: 'Christian' outrage unjustified
The livid reactions that have preceded the introduction of the official National Schools Pledge on May 3, 2016 affords a worrying and frightening glimpse into possible religious intolerance and extrem...Published: 04 May 2016 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Gwinyai Mutongi
Did TB Joshua prophesied the Burkina Faso terrorist attacks?
Another 'prophecy' from Nigerian Prophet T.B. Joshua seems to have come to light as news of terrorist sieging a hotel in the capital of Burkina Faso makes worldwide headlines."More African cou...Published: 16 Jan 2016 at 07:43hrs | 11 | by Ihechukwu Njoku
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