TRIPOLI – A truck bomb ripped through a police training center Thursday in a western Libyan town, killing at least 50 people, the town’s mayor said. The vehicle plowed into the facility in Zliten, where about 400 people — most of them policemen — had gathered for a morning assembly, and exploded, according to Zliten…
ISTANBUL – At least 10 people have been killed in an explosion in a district of Istanbul popular with tourists, the city authorities say. Foreign tourists are reportedly among those hurt in the blast, which occurred in the city’s historic Sultanahmet district, near the Blue Mosque. Fifteen people were also wounded in the blast, the…
HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s key allies in his Midlands heartland face possible expulsion from the warring post-congress Zanu PF as the battle to succeed President Robert Mugabe reaches a crescendo. This emerged yesterday as the province’s party disciplinary committee started hearing complaints against three of his alleged regional lieutenants — national deputy secretary…
HARARE – Bikita West Zanu PF Member of Parliament Munyaradzi Kereke, accused of sexually molesting his wife’s two nieces, yesterday accused them of conspiring to frame him, a Harare court heard. Kereke — who pleaded not guilty to the rape charge — said that he had been set up after a failed attempt to extort…
HARARE – Chief Justice (CJ) Godfrey Chidyausiku has announced a range of measures to address the rising backlog of cases in the courts. Speaking during the opening of the 2016 legal year in Harare yesterday, Chidyausiku released stunning data showing the courts have experienced the biggest growth in pending trials, causing massive delays. The CJ…
HARARE – The contagion from China’s ongoing financial meltdown will likely drive Zimbabwe into a worse recession this year, experts warned this week, after Harare ill-advisedly adopted the yuan as a reserve currency this month. This comes as the People’s Bank of China, the central bank, last Thursday devalued the yuan to 6.5646 per dollar,…
CAIRO – Egypt’s parliament has opened for the first time in more than three years, packed with supporters of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The previous Islamist-dominated legislature was dissolved by a court ruling in 2012. The following year, the then General Sisi ousted President Mohammed Morsi following massive protests against him and his Muslim Brotherhood…
HARARE – Embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is apparently taking serious strain from the post-congress Zanu PF’s worsening and seemingly-unstoppable factional and succession wars. Well-placed sources claimed in briefings with the Daily News yesterday that the Midlands godfather was increasingly feeling marginalised from President Robert Mugabe’s inner circle. So perturbed is the VP, the sources…
HARARE – The main opposition MDC has savaged Zanu PF as “satanic” for its alleged insensitivity to the suffering of Zimbabweans who live in squalor and abject poverty while “chefs” feast on caviar and champagne. It also said the country had slid into the abyss over the past 36 years due to President Robert Mugabe…
HARARE – Matters have come to a head in Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Midlands province as the factional wars devouring Zanu PF reached a crescendo last week with three embattled ministers, who have been under the cosh from the VP allies, seeking the intervention of acting President Phelekezela Mphoko. Sources told the Daily News on…
