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Ex-Nigerian president dies at a clinic in London
Muhammadu Buhari, a former Nigerian military ruler who went on to become the nation's first opposition candidate to win a presidential election, has died. He was 82.Buhari died on Sunday after...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 21:12hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
Tongogara's overt hostility toward Herbert Chitepo
Tongogara's overt hostility toward Herbert Chitepo eventually led to unfounded accusations that he had been responsible for Chitepo's death, despite a lack of supporting evidence. Chitepo was killed b...Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 18:22hrs | 1390 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is being led by the Devil himself - please, dear God, intervene!
I have seen evil in this country before. In fact, I believe that my childhood experiences of watching those in my neighborhood of Redcliff being gruesomely beaten up, and their homes burnt to ...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:53hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF has propensity to fail
I AM thoroughly enjoying tutoring my son, in preparation for his Ordinary Level examinations - although, the task can be demanding, at times - nevertheless, the experience is quite fulfilling and a ne...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Top civil servants sent to Zanu-PF lessons
ZIMBABWE's top civil servants are undergoing indoctrination lessons under the ruling Zanu-PF's school of ideology amid claims that the training will be cascaded to the rank and file of the public serv...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:27hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not worried about Ramaphosa speech in Tanzania
The president of South Africa Mr C Ramaphosa paid tribute to the countries he said helped and fought with ANC to remove Apartheid in South Africa. Mr Ramaphosa thanked Tanzania for being the centre an...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 10:24hrs | 14 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
No leads in Mnangagwa bombing
Investigations into a bomb blast that missed President Emmerson Mnangagwa by a whisker nearly six months ago do not seem to be heading anywhere, with the probe team still to apprehend suspects linked ...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga pays tribute to Mnangagwa
Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has paid tribute to President Emmerson Mnangagwa for honouring a son of Manicaland and national hero, the late first chairman of Zanu Herbert Chitepo who was kil...Published: 19 May 2018 at 20:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's mystery car crash deaths
This is a 2013 article extracted from amabhungane website.The death of outspoken Zanu-PF MP Edward Chindori-Chininga has reignited debate over the mysterious deaths of Zimbabwean politicians t...Published: 21 Nov 2017 at 05:34hrs | 1 | by amabhungane
Turmoil afte Chitepo’s death
Last week, Comrade Kenny Constantine Mabuya whose Chimurenga name was Kenny Ridzai spoke about his time at the war front and his time with Cdes Nhari and Badza who later became leaders of the famous N...Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 23:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Self-proclaimed (Goliath) Mugabe plot to kill (David) Mnangagwa flops, Fraud probe now preferred
Grace Mugabe and G40 strategy to eliminate, decapitate, debilitate and eradicate Emmerson Mnangagwa from any slightness chance of him succeeding the geriatric incumbent President Robert Mugabe was pla...Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 05:57hrs | 3 | by Themba Mthethwa
Cde Mnangagwa has recovered, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I must express my displeasure at the manner in which the sad news of Cde Rutanhire's passing was handled. It appeared as if the party does not have ...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by CZ
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
The Raylton War veteran's Declaration, what it means for Zimbabwe
On the 21st of July 2016 the Zimbabwe War veterans met at Raylton sports club were they decided to revisit The Mgagao declaration of 1975. To highlight the significance of this declaration, we need to...Published: 23 Jul 2016 at 17:42hrs | 7 | by Lloyd Msipa
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
'Zanu-PF killed Herbert Chitepo and Solomon Mujuru'
ZANU-PF's declaration of the late Victoria Chitepo a national heroine should not be seen as a sincere gesture as the party was responsible for the assassination of her husband, Herbert, says Tendai Bi...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 07:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Vivian Mwashita's national heroine status demeaning
The conferment of national heroine status to the late Vivian Mwashita is highly demeaning to the people of Zimbabwe but especially the late Victoria Chitepo who will also be buried at the national shr...Published: 12 Apr 2016 at 16:46hrs | | by Tawanda Bvumo - PDP Secretary for Defence
Zimbabwe struggle - Has Zambia been paid enough?
Over the past two editions, Zambian veteran politician Dr Vernon Mwaanga has been narrating Zimbabwe's liberation struggle from a Zambian point of view.This week, Dr Mwaanga concludes his narr...Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 06:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Car bomb kills broadcast journalist in Somalia
New York, December 3, 2015 - A Somali journalist with state-run media was killed today in Mogadishu when a bomb blew up her car, according to news reports. Hindia Haji Mohamed was the widow of another...Published: 03 Dec 2015 at 22:54hrs | | by CPJ
Russia bombs CIA trained rebels
Beirut - Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive in support of President Bashar Assad's government, Lebanese sources said on Thursday, a further sign of the r...Published: 01 Oct 2015 at 17:43hrs | | by Reuters
Hired killers targeted Mugabe
Forty years after the murder of Zanu Chair Herbert Chitepo, a functionary in Ian Smith's colonial establishment has revealed that the same assassin elimated Zapu's deputy chief Jason Ziyapapa Moyo - a...Published: 22 Mar 2015 at 09:49hrs | 4 | by Morris Mkwate
Mnangagwa: 'Gono still has very high chances of landing the Senate seat'
ZANU-PF Secretary for Legal Affairs Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono's chances of landing the Manicaland Senate seat were alive, barely a w...Published: 04 Oct 2014 at 02:21hrs | | by George Maponga
Of JZ Moyo, spies and the truth
This week I was attacked by some misguided Zimbabweans at home and in the diaspora who accused me of starting a smear campaign against their former leaders in Zapu and its combat wing during the w...Published: 04 Sep 2014 at 16:59hrs | 18 | by Thabo Kunene
Al-Shabab launches attack on Somali parliament
The armed group al-Shabab launched an assault on the Somali parliament in Mogadishu, setting off a car bomb and storming the complex in an attack which killed at least four people.Fighters on ...Published: 24 May 2014 at 15:30hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Police hunt down Harare car bombers
Police say the net is closing fast on the four suspects who were in possession of the motor bomb that exploded and killed a 30-year old wielder in Harare's Sunningdale suburb.Investigations h...Published: 20 Mar 2014 at 16:24hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Two car bombs kill 51 Nigeria
Maiduguri - Twin car bomb blasts at a bustling marketplace killed at least 51 people in Maiduguri, the northeast Nigerian city that is the birthplace of the country's Islamic extremist terrorist group...Published: 02 Mar 2014 at 17:59hrs | | by AP
Apartheid spy, Philip Conjwayo, dies
APARTHEID era spy Philip Conjwayo has died. He was 81. A close relative told Southern Eye yesterday that Conjwayo died at Harare Central Hospital on Tuesday after a long battle with prostate cancer.ď»...Published: 21 Feb 2014 at 13:42hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
20 soldiers killed in suicide bombing attack in Yemen
SANAA - At least 20 soldiers were killed and dozens of others injured when suicide car bombings rocked the Yemeni defense ministry in the capital Sanna on Thursday morning, officials told Xinhua....Published: 05 Dec 2013 at 08:52hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
40 people killed in an explosion in Libya
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya - More than 40 people were killed on Thursday in an explosion at an army depot in southern Libya after locals tried to steal ammunition, officials said, while four soldiers die...Published: 29 Nov 2013 at 02:54hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Car bomb near an Egyptian army intelligence wounds six soldiers
A car bomb exploded on Saturday near an Egyptian army intelligence building in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, wounding at least six soldiers, security sources said.No group has claimed respo...Published: 19 Oct 2013 at 14:35hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Powerful blast near Benghazi Swedish consulate
Benghazi - A car bomb exploded outside the Swedish consulate in the restive Libyan city of Benghazi Friday, seriously damaging the building but causing no casualties, a security official said....Published: 11 Oct 2013 at 10:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Deadly blasts hit Mogadishu's Village restaurant
Mogadishu - A car bomb and suspected suicide bomber struck a popular restaurant in the Somali capital on Saturday, killing at least 18 people, Ahmed Nur, a senior police officer at the scene, told R...Published: 07 Sep 2013 at 11:25hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
'Rhodesians assassinated Chitepo,' says Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe yesterday claimed the late nationalist Hebert Chitepo was assassinated by Rhodesian colonialists.Chitepo, who was the Zanu PF chairman, was killed by a car bomb placed ...Published: 01 Sep 2013 at 12:44hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Baghdad bomb attacks - 71 people killed, 201 wounded
At least 71 people were killed and 201 wounded in a series of bombings and other attacks across Baghdad on Wednesday, police and medical sources said, extending the worst wave of sectarian bloodshed i...Published: 28 Aug 2013 at 11:02hrs | 2 | by Reuters
57 people killed in a series of car bombs in Baghdad
At least 57 people have been killed in a series of car bombs targeting mainly Shia areas in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, the BBC reported Monday.Many more were wounded as at least a dozen bombs...Published: 27 May 2013 at 16:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Afghanistan: Suicide bomber rams car into NATO convoy, 2 troops killed
KABUL, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber rammed his car into a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least 12 people, including two coalition troops, four civilian contractors and two...Published: 16 May 2013 at 10:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Car bomb claims seven in Mogadishu
Mogadishu - Seven people were killed Sunday morning when a suicide bomber attempted to ram a car laden with explosives into a military convoy escorting a four-member Qatari delegation.General ...Published: 06 May 2013 at 04:31hrs | | 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
Six Americans killed in Afghanistan on Saturday
Six Americans and an Afghan doctor were killed in attacks on Saturday in southern and eastern Afghanistan as the US military's top officer began a weekend visit to the country, officials said....Published: 07 Apr 2013 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Henry Okah gets 24 years behind bars
Johannesburg - Nigerian Henry Okah was jailed for 24 years by the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday."Effectively, the accused [Okah] is therefore sentenced to 24 years impris...Published: 26 Mar 2013 at 09:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Car bomb kills 7 people in Iraq
BAQUBA, Iraq - A car bomb struck an Iraqi police checkpoint in a town in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala on Monday, killing seven people and wounding 22, Xinhua reports.The attack occu...Published: 18 Mar 2013 at 18:19hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Car bomb explodes in front of Afghan intelligence agency buildings
A car bomb exploded in front of the gates of a heavily barricaded Afghan intelligence agency buildings on Wednesday, Reuters reported.Shopkeepers and passersby were injured in the blast, which...Published: 16 Jan 2013 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Nigeria opens secret detention centre for radical Islamist sect
Abuja - Nigeria is opening a secret detention centre to hold and interrogate suspected high-level members of a radical Islamist sect responsible for hundreds of killings this year alone, a security of...Published: 20 Apr 2012 at 00:27hrs | 2 | by AP
Pakistan Taliban leader believed dead
The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, the militant movement that poses the gravest security threat to the country, is believed to have been killed by a U.S. drone strike, four Pakistan intelligence of...Published: 16 Jan 2012 at 05:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
63 killed in a wave of explosions in Iraq
At least 63 people died and 185 people were wounded in 12 bombings across the Iraqi capital on Thursday morning, authorities say raising fears about the stability of the country amid pol...Published: 22 Dec 2011 at 09:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reported
Suicide car bomber kills 11 people at a prison north of Baghdad
A suicide car bomber detonated an explosives-packed vehicle at a prison north of Baghdad on Monday, killing 11 people and wounding at least 15, security officials said.The attack, which left ...Published: 28 Nov 2011 at 12:08hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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
Nigerian President promises safer Nigeria
Abuja - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan pledged to secure the country in a broadcast to the nation on Saturday as it marked 51 years of independence amid a wave of attacks blamed on Islamists....Published: 01 Oct 2011 at 12:58hrs | | by Moyo Roy
34 killed in a twin explosion in Pakistan
According to reports by CNN, at least 34 people were killed and 94 injured after twin explosions rocked a market in the Sadar area of Peshawar, Pakistan, authorities said early Sunday.The firs...Published: 12 Jun 2011 at 02:04hrs | 1 | 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
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