NIGERIA – Nigeria has deployed extra troops and planes to search for 110 schoolgirls believed to have been abducted by Boko Haram militants last week. The girls went missing after jihadists stormed their school in the town of Dapchi in the north-eastern Yobe state on 19 February. President Muhammadu Buhari said it was a “national…
HARARE – In a major blow to former president Robert Mugabe and his followers, it has emerged that the high-level African Union (AU) mission that met with him at his palatial Borrowdale mansion last week did not take him seriously when he moaned to them that he was being ill-treated by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration….
HARARE – The titanic MDC leadership battle now appears to be effectively over, bar the shouting, after the country’s main opposition alliance unanimously endorsed Nelson Chamisa as its presidential candidate for this year’s harmonised national elections. People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader, Tendai Biti — who is also a key figure in the MDC Alliance —…
HARARE – Hardly a day after apologising for the killings of innocent people during Thursday’s protests over the kombi ban and illegal vending in the city, police were yesterday back in the public spotlight after they were accused of severely assaulting and torturing suspects in their custody. Four men — accused of stoning Harare Central…
HARARE – “Don’t party and tell,” might be the new Blue Roof motto. Organisers remained tight-lipped on a private 94th birthday party held at former president Robert Mugabe’s plush palace, dubbed “Blue Roof” in Harare’s Borrowdale suburb yesterday, with guests reportedly immersed in luxury, far away from the pain and suffering he left for ordinary…
HARARE – Nhamo Zepheniah’s family is mourning their father, a victim of one of Zimbabwe’s worst police shootings, weeping over his coffin as residents expressed outrage at the unbecoming and reprehensible conduct of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP). Parents and friends sobbed in Avondale at the funeral of Zepheniah, a sales agent for the Associated…
HARARE – Over 250 local civil servants will undergo training in India this year mostly under the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (Itec) Programme, the giant South Asian country’s ambassador to Zimbabwe Rungsung Masakui has said. Itec is a bilateral assistance programme run by the Indian government that seeks to address the needs of developing…
HARARE – Our chief writer Fungi Kwaramba speaks to the MDC spokesperson Obert Gutu to clarify his cryptic message that he was quitting politics. Q: Are you quitting politics? You have announced that you will be retiring from politics. Can you shed more light on this? Are you joining another party? A: I have not…
HARARE – He is a career cop who walked the beat over the past 23 years before assuming the post of police commissioner-general. He graduated as a patrol officer in October 1982, and is a police veteran who rose through the ranks and held a number of leadership posts. Godwin Matanga’s background in law enforcement…
EDITOR — New dispensation, my foot! Apparently we are being told this is a new era with improved service delivery and improved standard of living when Zesa Holdings cannot attend a minor fault in Chadcombe covering less than 20 houses? I am a resident in the area and we have been in darkness for the…
