TUNIS – Tunisia’s government Friday announced a nationwide curfew as it counters demonstrations over a scarcity of jobs — protests that come five years after similar complaints in the North African country spurred the first Arab Spring revolution. After news of the curfew emerged, France announced a 1 billion euro aid package to its former…
PARIS – French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira has stepped down from her job, shortly before MPs are due to debate plans to strip people convicted of terrorism of their citizenship. Ms Taubira was known to disagree with the controversial proposals, The citizenship plans were put forward after the 13 November Paris attacks in which 130…
RUBAVU – Warriors vice-captain Knox Mutizwa has seen enough in the home-based national team to convince him there is light at the end of the tunnel. This is despite the fact that the team exited the 2016 edition of the African Nations Championships (Chan) in the group stage after losing both their first two encounters…
RUBAVU – Warriors left-back Ocean Mushure has rallied his teammates to quickly put the disappointment of bowing out of the African Nations Championships (Chan) tournament behind them and focus on their last Group D match, a dead rubber against Uganda tomorrow. Battered and bruised in their quest for the Chan glory, Zimbabwe were knocked out…
HARARE – Late Motor Action founder Eric Rosen who succumbed to heart failure on Sunday is set to be buried at Harare’s Greendale Cemetery on Thursday, his son Sydney has said. Rosen died at a Borrowdale Hospital in Harare. He was 69. He leaves behind his wife and three children, two sons and a daughter….
HARARE – Gweru-based treble National Arts Merit Awards (Nama) winner Forbes Mushipe is scratching for a living to the extent of failing to put food regularly on his family table, a tragedy that befalls a number of artists in the country. Mushipe used to run a lucrative chain of retail businesses in Mkoba, Gweru but…
HARARE – Stand-up comedian Carl Joshua Ncube is setting trends in the local showbiz industry following the decision to spread his dragnet across the world, thanks to his online (YouTube) channel — Carl Joshua Ncube TV. Ncube said the channel is playing a pivotal role in his career as it is promoting his works, not…
HARARE – With Zimbabwe set to introduce a new education curriculum, artists and arts administrators are hopeful that government will also include arts education which had been neglected over the years. The Daily News sought comments from a number of people with most of them concerned that while this was a good idea, the teachers…
HARARE – Total deposits on the country’s mobile money platforms slumped 10,5 percent in the third quarter of 2015, to record $458 million from $512 million recorded prior quarter. According to a Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) report for the period, mobile money deposits were experiencing periodic fluctuations despite an increase in…
EDITOR — The early exit of Zimbabwe national soccer team — the Warriors — from the 2016 Chan tournament was such a disappointment. As a nation, we expected our team not to be eliminated in the early stages of the tournament but to at least proceed to the next round. My question now is are…
