THE extradition hearing against self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri, and his wife, Mary, is expected to begin in the Lilongwe Magistrate’s Court in Malawi tomorrow. The charismatic preacher and his wife are wanted in South Africa on fraud and money-laundering charges related to an investment scheme valued at about US$7 million. The couple were arrested in…
THE defiance of former president Jacob Zuma is not just a challenge to the Zondo Commission or to the Constitutional Court. It is a challenge to the whole constitutional order that we fought so hard to achieve. Section 2 of the Constitution, headed Supremacy of the Constitution, declares that “this Constitution is the supreme law of…
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa hailed the arrival of the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine on Monday as a chance to “turn the tide” on a disease that has devastated the country. Once testing of the batches is completed, the first shots will be given to health workers, who have been stretched during a second…
China’s top diplomat called on Tuesday for Beijing and Washington to put relations back on a predictable and constructive path, saying the United States should stop meddling in China’s internal affairs, like Hong Kong and Tibet. Yang Jiechi, director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party, is the highest ranking Chinese…
ELEVEN people in different regions of England have tested positive for the South African coronavirus variant without having any links to people who have travelled, prompting mass testing in the areas to contain the outbreak. Britain, with the world’s fifth-highest COVID-19 death toll, has moved to tighten its borders out of concern that new variants…
Leading environmental groups have joined the call from protesters tunnelling under London’s Euston station to review HS2 in the light of the pandemic. The high-speed rail line was planned to accommodate increased passenger numbers over the coming decades, but experts forecast that the home-working revolution may permanently reduce UK travel demand. Now, the government says…
By OMAN MBIKO in Bangui, Central African Republic BANGUI, (CAJ News) – AS the residents of the Central African Republic (CAR) headed for the polls on December 27 to choose a new president and legislature, they were hopeful for a better future. Yet even as the incumbent President Faustin-Archange Touadéra was declared to have tentatively…
Donald Trump has left the White House for the final time of his presidency, ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden. Mr Trump has taken a helicopter to the nearby Andrews base, where he is now speaking, and will then board the Air Force One plane for Florida. He is the first president to snub…
UGANDA’S government spokesperson Ofwono Opondo has accused the United States (US) of trying to “subvert elections”. US ambassador to Uganda Natalie Brown was on Monday stopped from visiting opposition leader, Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, at his home in the capital Kampala. “What she has been trying to do blatantly is to meddle…
TANZANIA’S President John Magufuli has rallied farmers in the country to increase food production, predicting global food scarcity later in the year caused by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. He urged farmers to take advantage of the reduced production by the largest foodproducing countries in the wake of health restrictions imposed across the world….
