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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 | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF not in Facebook's secret blacklist of 'dangerous' groups and people
Zanu-PF has not been included in Facebook's secret blacklist of 'dangerous" groups and people. The list, compiled under Facebook's Dangerous Individuals and Organisations (DIO) policy, has bee...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:25hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
No respite for Zimbabwe under Biden
The United States of America, believed by many to be the sole superpower post-Cold War, has arguably the most staggering defence budget ever known to humanity. Post the cataclysmic attacks of ...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:43hrs | | by Sapien Sapien
Zimbabwe: Memory, Knowledge and the difficult Future
Sometime in a lonely day in 1749, a small scale thinker with a taste for music and a reputation for familial irresponsibility was walking on a foot path in a village a few miles from Paris in France. ...Published: 19 Jan 2015 at 14:30hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
African leaders on plan to combat Boko Haram
African leaders at a summit in Paris have agreed on a regional plan of action to combat Boko Haram, the Islamist group that has abducted more than 200 girls and threatened to sell them into slavery....Published: 20 May 2014 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Africa rescue our daughters from Boko Haram
It is now more than a month since the Boko Haram extremist group kidnapped more than two hundred (200) girls at a school in Nigeria and African leaders have failed to take any action meant to resc...Published: 16 May 2014 at 11:06hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Kenya mall attack trial begins, four in court
NAIROBI - Four men charged with helping al-Qaida-linked militants launch a murderous attack on a Kenyan shopping mall appeared in court on Wednesday at the start of their trial.Mohamed Ahmed A...Published: 16 Jan 2014 at 04:45hrs | | by VOA
Key Syrian rebel leader dies
BEIRUT - The leader of one of Syria's most prominent rebel units died early Monday of wounds sustained during a strike by government troops last week, his group said, dealing another blow to fighters...Published: 18 Nov 2013 at 13:52hrs | | by AP
Suicide vehicle bombing near Damascus kills 16 soldiers
Beirut - Syrian activists say a suicide vehicle bombing of an army checkpoint outside Damascus has killed 16 soldiers.The state news agency SANA confirmed a blast on Saturday in the suburb of ...Published: 19 Oct 2013 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Two Islamic extremists killed in Nairobi mall
NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya's interior minister says two Islamic extremists were killed Monday as military forces waged an operation to rescue hostages inside an upscale mall in Nairobi. A top military off...Published: 23 Sep 2013 at 09:48hrs | | by AP
Diaporas submit application to contest in the forthcoming elections
A NUMBER of MDC-T members in the Diaspora have submitted their curriculum vitae and applications to contest in the forthcoming elections, angering sitting MPs and local aspiring candidates who feel th...Published: 25 Feb 2013 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe rated eighth most dangerous country in African
Global Peace Index has recently released a report on global ranking of countries according to their dangerousness, a dozen African countries are among the most affected by war, terrorism and political...Published: 29 Jun 2012 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIA helping steer arms to opposition fighters in Syria
The New York Times on Thursday reported that Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers in covert operations in southern Turkey, are helping steer arms to opposition fighters to fight the Syrian gover...Published: 22 Jun 2012 at 03:53hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Megaupload.com founder refused bail
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A judge ordered Kim Dotcom, the founder of online file-sharing site Megaupload.com, to be held in custody for another month on Wednesday, saying the suspected Internet pirate...Published: 25 Jan 2012 at 10:42hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Suicide bomber kills 4 Somali soldiers
A suicide bomber dressed in a military uniform triggered his explosives at Somalia's army headquarters on Wednesday, killing four soldiers, officials said.Gen. Abdikarim Yusuf Dhagabadan, the ...Published: 30 Nov 2011 at 12:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Suicide car bomber strikes NATO convoy killing six: Afghan officials
Afghanistan -There are reports that a suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy in Kabul, killing at least four people, Afghan officials said. In the south, a man wearing an Afghan military uniform turn...Published: 29 Oct 2011 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tackling the evil of famine in the Horn of Africa
Images of starving Somalis have shaken the conscience of the world: stomachs flattened by hunger, sagging flesh and noses dripping in mucus, fed on by opportunistic toilet flies. And death is lurking....Published: 16 Sep 2011 at 19:14hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor
Osama bin Laden's family company to build a 1km tall tower in Saudi Arabia
Riyadh - Kingdom Holding Co, the investment firm headed by the billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, said it has signed a $1.2 billion deal with the Binladen Group to build the 1,000-metre Kingdom T...Published: 02 Aug 2011 at 19:37hrs | | by Sapa
Pakistan arrests CIA's Osama bin Laden informants
Pakistan's top military spy agency has arrested five informants who fed information to the CIA before the raid last month that killed Osama bin Laden, the New York Times has reported.One of t...Published: 15 Jun 2011 at 08:43hrs | | by Reuters
Bin Laden's trusted confidante identified
The courier who led US intelligence to Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan hailed from the Swat Valley, a one-time stronghold of militant Taliban fighters, according to Pakistani officials.T...Published: 02 Jun 2011 at 20:13hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Al-Qaeda declares death curse on US as they confirm Osama bin Laden death
In a statement dated Tuesday, Al-Qaeda confirmed that Bin Laden was dead, disappointing conspiracy theorists who refuse to believe he has been killed. Al-Qaeda has vowed to carry out revenge attacks o...Published: 07 May 2011 at 11:16hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Profile of Osama bin Laden, 'World now a better place without him'
Bin Laden was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 1957. He is the 17th child of a Saudi construction tycoon.Bin Laden worked for his father's company before joining the US-backed Jihad, or "Holy ...Published: 05 May 2011 at 04:32hrs | 1 | by Moyo Roy
CIA chief says Gadhafi alive after hit on house
TRIPOLI, Libya – The CIA chief says he believes Moammar Gadhafi is still alive, despite a NATO airstrike that reduced much of the Libyan leader's family compound to rubble.Ga...Published: 04 May 2011 at 08:10hrs | | by AP
So you thought this (2010) year was tough …
Politically speaking, not a lot changed and not a lot was solved in 2010. Economic hard times, disappointment with an underachieving Barack Obama, the familiar bloody slog in Afghanista...Published: 31 Dec 2010 at 12:03hrs | 5 | by Simon Tisdall
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