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Mnangagwa's henchman trying to place an operative at Econet?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's henchman, Owen 'Mudha' Ncube, recently wrote a letter to Econet Zimbabwe's Gweru branch trying to impose a candidate to a none existing vacancy.This came to light af...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 09:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Urgent Call for adoption of Regional Counter-Terrorism Strategy by member states
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) region has long been considered a safe haven from the threat of terrorism. However, recent developments, particularly the insurgency in Mozambique, ha...Published: 23 Sep 2023 at 21:13hrs | 2 | by Nicholas Ncube
Mnangagwa gives his henchman another lease of life
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reinstated Owen 'Mudha' Ncube, a key associate, to a prominent government role, assigning him the position of Midlands Provincial Affairs minister. This marks Ncube's ...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 21:51hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally vows 'worse than 2008' violence against opposition
Former state security minister and Zanu-PF top official, Owen Mudha Ncube has threatened opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and his party with violence he vowed shall be worse than the bloodbath experie...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 21:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean politicians must walk their peace talk
THE recent rise in hate speech spewed on a daily basis by politicians and the attendant violence that has gripped the nation provide grim prospects for peace in the coming elections.President ...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF declares war on CCC
FORMER State Security minister Owen Ncube yesterday described the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) as an enemy of the ruling party and encouraged Zanu-PF supporters to defend the par...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF says enemy is Nelson Chamisa's CCC
FORMER State Security minister Owen Ncube yesterday described the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) as an enemy of the ruling party and encouraged Zanu PF supporters to defend the party a...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa rally murder: 11 out
ELEVEN of the 16 youths who were arrested in connection with the murder of a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporter at a rally in Kwekwe, Midlands province, on Sunday have been released amid re...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's enforcer bites the dust again
FORMER State Security minister Owen Mudha Ncube's political woes worsened at the weekend after he lost the Zanu-PF Midlands provincial vice chairmanship, on which he had imposed himself, and was shunt...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fires his enforcer as State Security Minister
President Emmerson Mnangagwa sacked Owen Mudha Ncube as state security minister on Monday as Zanu-PF continues to feel the tremors from its divisive provincial elections concluded two weeks ago....Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 19:08hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
The mystery of the Mnangagwa gold mill
NOTHING is wrong when a president deals in gold, ordinarily. But, when you hear that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his family run a gold mill, you struggle to convince yourself that everything is r...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Violence erupts in Mash Central as ZANU PF internal wars escalate
The battle for Mazowe DCC Chairmanship has reached another level with reports of violence now before the courts. ZANU PF Concession District youth official Paul Kasvosve was severely assaulted by a Ka...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 09:48hrs | | by Claris Magwenzi Freelance journalist
Zanu-PF bigwigs in a state of shock
MANIC Zanu-PF youths wielding machetes recently ran amok in the Midlands - assaulting party bigwigs and police officers, while also sowing terror among supporters of the former liberation movement in ...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 17:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Security Minister left exposed by State Agents, claims Jonathan Moyo, Zhuwao
FORMER cabinet ministers Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao have made sensational claims against National Security Minister Owen Ncube alleging Special Forces (SAS) recently, and on two occasions, broke...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Deaths, abductions and terror in Mnangagwa's backyard
Antony Kadozo, a veteran of Zimbabwe's liberation war, is struggling to come to terms with the death of his son, who was allegedly killed by Zanu-PF youths.The 65-year-old Kwekwe resident said...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths turn Parly office into torture base
A ZANU-PF youth group known as Al Shabaab has grabbed Mbizo parliamentary constituency offices in Kwekwe amid reports that they are now using it as a torture base for opposition MDC supporters and for...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister clashes with CIO boss
Minister of State for Provincial Affairs in the Midlands province Larry Mavhima is strongly set on a collision course with Minister of State Security in charge of the dreaded Central Intelligenc...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 12:31hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Joint police, army operation to flush out illegal miners raises stink
The police and army recently mounted a joint operation to flush out violent illegal miners throughout the country, but the officers have quickly seized the opportunity to make dirty money, it has been...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 09:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Minister fouls Mnangagwa's plans fouled by Owen Ncube
ZIMBABWE's efforts to attract much-needed investment are being undermined by a fatal combination of executive folly and policy inconsistencies - that have seen international investors being warned aga...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Machete terror gangs spreading mayhem in Mnangagwa's home province
Murder and violence are spreading in the mineral-rich Midlands - President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province - as armed militias reportedly sponsored by politicians wreak havoc with impunity....Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Militia gangs in ZANU PF: Ex-member speaks out
A former ZANU PF activist Setfree Mafukidze has for the first allowed Zimbabweans to peep into the dreaded militia gangs that are used by the party to inflict violence on opposition member...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 15:40hrs | 18 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa already under arrest?
DEFIANT MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has said he is not fazed by arrest threats made by security service chiefs saying he is ready for whatever the Mnangagwa regime is planning."Let them do what ...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 12:21hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Media play critical role in fuelling conflicts
SOUTHERN Africa is a flashpoint for conflict, with Zimbabwe renowned for political violence and South Africa for xenophobia, terrorism threats from Al Shabaab in Mozambique, including hunger and other...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Failure to groom a successor backfires on Mugabe
Zimbabweans have had enough of the challenges they are subjected to every year and know what must be done. It is now crystal clear that their fighting in the government has nothing to do with the ordi...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 14:31hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
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 | 1 | by CPJ
MDC-T youths warn Zanu-PF
MDC youths, still smarting from last week's bloody skirmishes with the authorities, have warned their Zanu-PF counterparts against perpetrating violence by promising they will respond aggressively to ...Published: 18 Jul 2017 at 11:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dokora's Muslim syllabus
The diaspora was surprised to learn from the Primary and Secondary Education Minister, Lazarus Dokora, that Islam was Zimbabwe's biggest religion in 1980 and was the country's 'designated' indigen...Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 11:34hrs | 2 | by Zimvigil
Burundi and the Comoros: A time for SADC to show its mettle
The Hutus and Tutsis appear to be a quarrelsome lot. In Rwanda the cousin tribes engineered a world famous genocide that wiped a million people in nine months. Just 270 days my people! This tran...Published: 28 Mar 2017 at 13:34hrs | | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Mugabe meets Kenyan counterpart
President Mugabe met his Kenyan counterpart President Uhuru Kenyatta on the sidelines of the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development that ended in Nairobi, Kenya yesterday where th...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 03:38hrs | 1 | by Tendai Mugabe
Saboteurs in vain attempt to block Zimbabwe's access to funds
It is quite disappointing that while Government is working tirelessly for economic revival, some local intended beneficiaries are equally working untiringly to throw spanners into that endeavour....Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Tafara Shumba
Is Africa rising?
Africa Day, 25 May, has come and gone and we remain with the burdens of being Africans, the burden of the indignities and humiliation of colonialism, the burden of slavery which no other continent suf...Published: 01 Jun 2016 at 16:13hrs | 1 | by MDC President Professor Welshman Ncube
ZPP condemns formation of terror gang called Al Shabaab in Kwekwe
Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has condemns in the strongest terms possible, the formation of a shadowy terror group being dubbed “Al Shabaab” in Midlands and the subsequent violence it meted out on...Published: 08 Apr 2016 at 06:49hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'There is no respect anymore in Zanu-PF,' says Mugabe
Individualists and factionalists have no place in the Zanu-PF government and people should respect the leadership appointed at the party's 2014 National People's Congress, President Robert Mugabe said...Published: 01 Feb 2016 at 06:02hrs | | by Felex Share
YWPF's statement on the 150 students murdered at Kenyan University
Today we stand as the Young Women in Politics Forum, saddened and disheartened by the killings perpetrated by a demonic sect namely Al shabaab on innocent students at Garissa University. ...Published: 12 Apr 2015 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Sokhela Secretary General of YWPF
Mujuru was using Rugare Gumbo and Didymus Mutasa
It must be a very difficult period for America, Obama especially. There is no rhyme, no reason, to the workings of the world that America has made.Everything looks Frankensteinian, all proving...Published: 05 Apr 2015 at 17:59hrs | 4 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mugabe can end terrorism
The appointment of President Robert Mugabe as chairperson of the African Union is expected to mark the end of terrorism in Africa, the Council of African Apostles (CAA) has said.The council, ...Published: 09 Feb 2015 at 17:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fifa issued a chilling warning to Zimbabwe
WORLD soccer governing body Fifa yesterday issued a chilling warning to Zimbabwe and revealed that the country could face severe sanctions and be ostracised from the global football family should gove...Published: 02 Feb 2015 at 08:16hrs | | by Petros Kausiyo
'Be self-reliant,' Mugabe tells Africa
AFRICAN Union chair President Mugabe yesterday rallied member states to walk the talk by exploiting the alternative sources of funding they had agreed on in order to wean the continent off over-relian...Published: 01 Feb 2015 at 11:52hrs | | by Caesar Zvayi
How do international terrorist suspects acquire South African passports
CAPE TOWN - The increasing number of international terrorist suspects travelling on South African passports has become a serious cause for concern among Western intelligence communities including ...Published: 12 Sep 2014 at 11:40hrs | 1 | by Thabo Kunene
New Al Jazeera Film investigates massacres against Kenyan-Somalis
A forthcoming Al Jazeera documentary takes an in-depth look at the grievances that Kenyan-Somalis have toward the Kenyan government and how Al Qaeda-affiliated group Al Shabaab is taking advantage of ...Published: 13 Nov 2013 at 04:49hrs | 2 | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
Militants claim they are 'holding out' in Nairobi mall
Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group said on Tuesday there were "countless dead bodies" in a Kenyan shopping mall as security forces searched for militants still holed up in the complex after a weekend...Published: 24 Sep 2013 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Reuters
Gunfire heard after Kenyan security forces claims total control over mall
Kenya said its security forces were in control of the Nairobi shopping mall where Islamist fighters killed at least 62 people, and police were doing a final sweep of shops early on Tuesday after rescu...Published: 24 Sep 2013 at 04:11hrs | 1 | by Reuters
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 | 2 | by Reuters
'Media hangman' bounces back!, as Mugabe announces new cabinet
The long wait is over as President Robert Mugabe announced a 26 member cabinet on Tuesday 11 September, 2013.While such cabinet announcements should have brought joy and celebrations, Presi...Published: 11 Sep 2013 at 13:29hrs | 1 | by Andrew Mambondiyani
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
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
Machete-wielding youths kill 4 cops in Kenya
Kenyans stood patiently in long lines on Monday to elect a new president but machete-wielding youths on the coast killed four policemen, casting a shadow over a vote seen as vital to repairing Kenya's...Published: 04 Mar 2013 at 06:05hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
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
Kenya under threat of terrorist attack
The US embassy in Kenya has warned of an imminent threat of an attack on the Kenyan port city of Mombasa and asked all its government workers to leave the coastal town, which has been hit by a se...Published: 23 Jun 2012 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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