BANJUL – West African forces have arrested a senior Gambian army general and have seized weapons from the private residence of exiled former ruler Yahya Jammeh, force commander Francois Ndiaye has said. General Bora Colley, the head of an elite commando unit, had been arrested in neighbouring Senegal, added, without giving details. Regional troops had…
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump has fired the acting US attorney general after she questioned the legality of his immigration ban. Sally Yates, who was appointed by Barack Obama, ordered justice department lawyers not to enforce the president’s executive order. A White House statement accused Ms Yates of “betraying” the justice department and being “weak on…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s latest trip to Ethiopia, which came barely 24 hours after he had returned home from his annual and taxpayer-funded month-long sojourn in the Far East, has triggered fresh anger and heated debate among long-suffering Zimbabweans. Angry opposition parties and civic groups which spoke to the Daily News yesterday said there…
BULAWAYO – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says there is an urgent need to craft a government policy that will address the legitimate grievances of the people of Matabeleland, including the thorny issue of the Gukurahundi massacres of innocent civilians in the 1980s. Tsvangirai’s call came as rights groups have recently described to the Daily News…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s deeply divided Zanu PF is likely to face another debilitating crisis, a second “Bhora Musango” in 2018 general elections, analysts have said. Mugabe’s Zanu PF is being consumed by deadly factional and succession wars pitting embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s supporters against the party’s ambitious Young Turks known as the…
HARARE – Barely a week after the government declared Harare’s roads a state of disaster, roads leading to President Robert Mugabe’s urban and rural residences remain smooth, something that observers say shows that government is not showing the nonagenarian the whole picture. Mugabe sneaked back into the country on Friday night from his annual holiday…
HARARE – Former Finance minister in the government of national unity Tendai Biti, who now leads the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), has insisted that a coalition of opposition political parties ahead of next year’s elections is the only way to remove Zanu PF from power. Biti said this last Thursday, while speaking as one of…
HARARE – Political analysts have said it would be suicidal for Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa to come clean on his mooted presidential ambitions despite growing calls by his supporters who feel his silence is fuelling the factional and succession fights in the deeply divided Zanu PF. Mnangagwa allies — Team Lacoste and a group of…
HARARE – Remember firebrand politician and former Zanu PF legislator Margaret Dongo who in the early 1990s caused pandemonium in Parliament after she called Zanu PF MPs, including cabinet ministers, “Mugabe’s wives”? Among those incensed by the remarks was the late liberation war icon, General Solomon Mujuru, who was then a legislator in the august…
EDITOR — The much talked about formation of the grand coalition among the opposition political parties in the country supposedly fronted by the former Vice President Joice Mujuru of the Zimbabwe People First party as leader and Morgan Tsvangirai of the MDC is a script on paper which is not feasible. The coalition will suffer…
