CAIRO – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who came to power after a bloody crackdown on political Islamists, called on Wednesday for religious reforms to counter extremists in a speech to Muslim clerics. Sisi has often warned that Islamist extremism presents a vital threat to the region, which he suggested lags in development and women’s…
HARARE – Zimbabweans are talking about little else than opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s health ever since the former prime minister in the government of national unity bravely disclosed on Monday that he was battling colon cancer. At the same time, analysts who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said while Tsvangirai’s health challenges could impact…
HARARE – More churches are joining the call for President Robert Mugabe to relinquish power forthwith in the wake of the country’s ever-deteriorating economic situation. And in a major departure from the mild positions that faith-based organisations usually take with regard to politics, churches under the ambit of the Zimbabwe Divine Destiny (ZDD) even threatened…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF youth leader Acie Lumumba has launched his own party and has ruled out forging ties with existing parties, saying they have nothing to offer. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, Lumumba said his party, that will be called Viva Zimbabwe, is aiming to garner support of youths, who…
ISTANBUL – The death toll in a gun and suicide bomb attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk airport has risen to 41, 13 of them foreign nationals, with 239 injured, the Turkish city’s governor says. Three attackers arrived in a taxi and began firing at the terminal entrance late on Tuesday. They blew themselves up after police…
LUSAKA – Zambian police said on Tuesday they had arrested two senior editors of the country’s largest independent newspaper that was shut last week over alleged unpaid tax. The daily Post newspaper has rejected the tax-collecting agency’s claims that it owes millions of dollars and says the shutdown is an attempt to silence it ahead…
JOHANNESBURG – The only certainty in all this is uncertainty. Uncertainty on the markets and uncertainty over the future of trade relations between the UK and Africa. The most internationally traded African currency, the South African rand, is already having a bumpy ride in the wake of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union….
HARARE – Troubled Hwange Colliery Company Limited (Hwange) is seeking a scheme of arrangement to reschedule its $310 million debt, as its going concern status remains under threat. This also comes as the western Zimbabwe coal miner is mulling a $25 million rights and $100 million bond issue in Britain to stave off further erosion…
HARARE – Chinese-owned Zimasco (Private) Limited is facing serious government censure after a State-sanctioned probe has unearthed serious environmental damage at its Kwekwe plant, the Daily News can reveal. The development not only comes as President Robert Mugabe has attacked the ethical conduct of some investors from the Asian country, but the ferro-alloys producer has…
LEICESTER City Football Club’s unexpected victory in the exciting and just-ended 2016 English Premier League race has variously been described as the greatest sporting story of all time — almost beyond the realm of human imagination. From starting the season as firm relegation favourites, whose attack was led by a former non-league striker in the…
