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'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 | 11 | by Dumisani Muleya
Zimbabwe a pariah state that can't even be trusted by fellow African countries!
Can African countries genuinely trust the rogue Zimbabwe regime?In fact, should African nations be so foolhardy and naive as to place their trust in a proven pariah state as Zimbabwe?W...Published: 17 May 2022 at 16:41hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zec abandons polling station at Zanu-PF torture base
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) will no longer be using a polling station in Kwekwe situated in an area where there is a traditional Zanu-PF torture base manned by the party's violent terror s...Published: 04 May 2022 at 20:30hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa probes by-election loss
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last week dispatched his politburo and central committee members to Kwekwe to hear first-hand reasons why the party lost the crucial Kwekwe Central and Mbizo parliamentary...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 11:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa challenged to disband terror groups in Kwekwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been challenged to disband terror groups in Kwekwe, stop giving impunity to perpetrators of politically motivated violence and halt the needless bloodshed, particularl...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 11:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's backyard hit by fresh divisions
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's backyard, the Midlands province, has been hard hit by fresh turmoil after losing three crucial seats in last week's by-elections with rival factions blaming and threaten...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sink or swim for Chamisa
TO sink or swim is the question in this Saturday's by-elections as the opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) faces a stern test of political strength where there is everything to fight for i...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF terror gangs haunt Kwekwe
AT the turn of the new millennium, dozens of Zanu-PF supporters turned up at a newly built lodge, Jessie Gardens and the guest of honour was Owen Ncube, better known by his moniker Mudha Mugabe then....Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:16hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF activists deface CCC candidate posters
THE Nelson Chamisa-led opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party has accused Zanu-PF activists of defacing its campaign posters ahead of the two parties' star rallies in Kwekwe this weekend...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 18:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudha still using state security aides
FORMER State Security minister Owen "Mudha" Ncube (pictured), who was last month fired by President Emmerson Mnangagwa for allegedly fanning division and Zanu-PF factionalism in the Midlands province ...Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nasty factional fights boil in Mnangagwa's backyard
INTENSE inter-factional fights to control President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province Midlands, pitting two rival groups backing State Security minister Owen Mudha Ncube and the incumbent chairperson...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:56hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mozambican named amongst top 5 global terrorists
United States of America Secretary of State Anthony J Blinken has announced the designation of five terrorist leaders in Africa. Among them is Bonomade Machude Omar of Mozambique. According to...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 09:47hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Insurgency in Cabo Delgado How did it start?
No human eye has seen such a level of cruelty perpetrated on another human being by another human. The gruesome nature of the killings rape and suffering caused by these ISIS rebels is indeed knee sha...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:57hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mozambique insurgency a wake up call for SADC
The insurgency in Mozambique is a wake-up call to the SADC region. The region has ignored the presence of Islamic State Central Africa Province ISCAP in DRC. The region has also ignored the presence o...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 19:50hrs | | by Silent Fox
Mnangagwa to meet Zanu-PF security dept as he bids to fix bickering party
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is stepping in to try and end the widening fallout from Zanu-PF's chaotic district coordinating committee (DCC) elections, which have raised political temperatures higher ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 19:01hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves in to end DCC chaos
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is stepping in to try and end the widening fallout from Zanu-PF's chaotic district coordinating committee (DCC) elections, which have raised political temperatures higher ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe wary of Mozambique insurgency
ZIMBABWE is closely monitoring the unfolding armed conflict in neighbouring Mozambique, but a possible military intervention will only be guided by the collective SADC Troika decision, Minister of Def...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF pleads for Sadc help in Mozambique
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has urged Sadc States to mobilise and assist Mozambique in its fight against an Islamic insurgency which has plunged the neighbouring country's northern region into a civil wa...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
MDC youths on high alert
MDC youths in Kwekwe district yesterday said they were on high alert following recent cases of torture and abductions in the city, which saw one opposition party member being murdered by a suspected Z...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nhlanhla Ndiweni reveals poisoning fears
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday visited jailed Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni at Khami Maximum Security Prison on the outskirts of Bulawayo, where the traditional leader revealed he feared for his...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 18:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man murdered outside MDC office
Police are investigating after a man was killed outside a constituency office of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in Kwekwe on Friday.Officers responded after reports of a man lying de...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 17:51hrs | | by ZimLive
US foreign policy prefers Kenya
Kenya is "one of our key friends in Africa - nay, in the world," said a confident, pleased United States (US) assistant secretary of State for African Affairs, Tibor P Nagy, at a May 9 briefing in Was...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Pearl Matibe
'Information as a threat to national security'
We publish the full presentation by the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Senator Monica Mutsvangwa at the Zimbabwe National Defence University in Harare last week....Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:13hrs | | by Senator Monica Mutsvangwa
Mutsvangwa calls for laws regulating social media
Developing countries should mitigate the negative effects of information proliferation by creating laws that regulate social media usage, entrenching accountability and sanctions for offenders, a Cabi...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 11:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa demands Mnangagwa to reverse the appointment of Owen Ncube
The absence of an Act of Parliament regulating the operational use of intelligence services in Zimbabwe is a concern for the MDC.The Army is regulated through the Defence Act, the Zimbabwe Rep...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 17:37hrs | | by MDC Communications
Zanu-PF linked terror group 'fleeces' kombi operators
A GROUP of Zanu PF supporters in Kwekwe led by Midlands provincial youth secretary for education, Tapuwa Muto, is allegedly fleecing commuter omnibus operators at the Kwekwe city interchange rank, for...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 11:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's foreign lawyers cornered
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa's bid to engage five foreign lawyers in his presidential election challenge could hit a brick-wall, as they are yet to be cleared to pract...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'linked to terror group al-Shabaab'
Zanu-PF party claims that former deputy president Emmerson Mnangagwa "sponsored a local terror group al-Shabaab", which attacked his perceived enemies in the Midlands province," says a report. ...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 16:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa terror gang 'Al-Shabaab' to be disbanded
THE Zanu-PF Midlands provincial executive on Wednesday was told about chilling stories from Kwekwe where former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa allegedly used to sponsor a terror group that went aro...Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 04:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's politburo video exposé
A 72-minute video presented in the Zanu-PF politburo by Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo on July 19, which is now circulating among senior party members and state security agents, portrays Vice...Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 21:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 shot dead in Kenya's capital Nairobi amid vote protests
A police official and a witness say two people have been shot dead in Kenya's capital during protests over provisional election results showing President Uhuru Kenyatta leading opposition leader Raila...Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 15:57hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Notorious gang flees Mugabe rally
Zanu-PF supporters on Friday turned on one of the suspected terror groups, forcing it to flee Lupane on Friday moments after an angry President Robert Mugabe had finished his address in which he disow...Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 13:42hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe disowns terror gangs
Zanu-PF has dissociated itself from the terror gangs that have resurfaced in some of the country's major towns and cities ahead of next year's elections.The terror groups which claim to be aff...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 12:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF terror gangs resurface
Communities in some of the country's major towns are living in fear of ruling party youths who are operating terror gangs that are extorting money from informal and formal traders while harassing resi...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 16:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe flies out to again
President Robert Mugabe has left Harare to join other heads of state and government from the continent at the 29th ordinary session of the African Union (AU) which is the highest decision-making...Published: 01 Jul 2017 at 13:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Zanu-PF youth hacked with a machete
A ZANU-PF youth identified as Tichaona Chacha is reportedly battling for life at Kwekwe General Hospital after he was hacked with a machete by fellow party members during a scuffle at a city commuter ...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 09:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Terrorism overshadows internal conflicts - As African countries scramble for solutions
Is terrorism becoming the dominant mode of conflict in Africa? This is a question many are asking following the recent surge in terror attacks across Africa. Since January about a dozen African countr...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 07:58hrs | 2 | by Lansana Gberie
Africa day is time to tabulate the success stories of Africa,
On the 25th of May African countries celebrated Africa day reminiscing the glorious past of Africa, saluting the founding fathers of the African Union formerly the Organisation of African Unity. A...Published: 01 Jun 2016 at 16:26hrs | | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
Kenyan plan to close world's largest refugee camp
Last night on The Stream on Al Jazeera, author Ben Rawlence:• Dismissed the terrorism threat posed by Dadaab• Claimed "Refugees are being used as a bargaining chip here"• Claimed Ken...Published: 26 May 2016 at 15:48hrs | | by Al Jazeera
'Al-Shabaab' runs amok in Kwekwe
It has emerged that the Kwekwe-based Zanu-PF terror group that goes by the sick moniker "Al-Shabaab" went berserk at the weekend, attacking party youths who attended a homecoming rally for President R...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 16:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Somalia attacks expose US 'hunger' to dominate Africa
On March 7 the Pentagon announced that it had killed 150 members of the Al-Shabaab guerrilla movement in a bombing operation in Somalia.These military actions are part and parcel of a broader ...Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 05:29hrs | | by Abayomi Azikiwe
Holding Tsvangirai up to ridicule
Give it to our African heritage. You don't go very far in search of a proverb appropriate to express strange happenings in your neighbourhood. Our forefathers will have something for you, itself an in...Published: 16 Jan 2016 at 15:54hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Al-Shabaab terror group hunts Mugabe's ministers
A Kwekwe-based terror group going by the sick moniker "Al-Shabaab" and said to be aligned to one of the factions contesting for power in the warring post-congress Zanu-PF has gone berserk, tormenting ...Published: 14 Jan 2016 at 13:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
THREE Zanu-PF ministers live in fear as succession fight hots up
THREE ministers in the Midlands province are in trouble with Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies who believe First Lady Grace Mugabe was behind their appointments into government as Zanu PF fac...Published: 24 Dec 2015 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
FAJ calls on AU and governments to end impunity for journalists' killers in Africa
The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the Africa Group of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on the african Union and governments to end impunity for journalists' kill...Published: 03 Nov 2015 at 12:17hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Off to another summit, Cdes
CABINET FILES AND CZ's NOTEBOOKDear Cabinet andPolitburo membersCOMRADES, as you are all aware, I am away for the Asia-Africa Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, so I won't be able to ad...Published: 23 Apr 2015 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by CZ
Mugabe condemns Garissa attack
President Robert Mugabe and his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma have sent their condolences to the families of the almost 150 Kenyan students who lost their lives in the Garissa University Colleg...Published: 09 Apr 2015 at 15:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kenya destroys two al-Shabaab camps
The Kenyan air force has destroyed two al-Shabaab camps in Somalia, it said on Monday, in the first major military response since the Islamist group massacred students at a Kenyan university last week...Published: 07 Apr 2015 at 11:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Serious threat, 'Kenya's cities will run red with blood'
Mogadishu - Somali militants on Saturday threatened to stage more bloody attacks on Kenya after the group's fighters killed nearly 150 people during an assault on a Kenyan university on Thursday....Published: 04 Apr 2015 at 13:29hrs | | by Reuters
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