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JOHANNESBURG – On 13 September 1996, Tupac Shakur (2Pac) — considered one of the greatest rappers of his time — died. On Thursday, social…
September 13, 2018Read More
Democracy is totally rad and everything, but sometimes it just gets in the way of total power. That's when the folks in charge decided…
August 22, 2018Read More
Kofi Annan (80) was an important historical figure who played a critical role in many key events of the 1990s and 2000s. His death…
August 20, 2018Read More
On a recent Tuesday night, nearly every table was occupied at Harar, a small Ethiopian restaurant in Vauxhall in South London. Most of the…
August 6, 2018Read More
The four children of a fruit-seller gunned down by Zimbabwean soldiers in post-election violence wept uncontrollably at the sight of their father lying in…
August 5, 2018Read More
Zimbabweans are eagerly awaiting the results of the presidential election after the ruling Zanu-PF party won the majority of seats in parliament. Follow the…
August 1, 2018Read More
Sitting in her family tent in Mauritania’s Mbera refugee camp, 12-year-old Fatimata concentrates intently as she draws a flower on her school notebook. Behind…
July 18, 2018Read More
The role of women in leadership positions is critical to the future of a peaceful Niger according to the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed.…
July 8, 2018Read More
The stories of slave resistance, many of us know, have to do with bloodshed, violence, and destruction. But there are other acts of resistance…
July 7, 2018Read More
No disrespect, but had my 6 children been born in Africa I would have spent most of my time fighting their school teachers than…
July 7, 2018Read More
World News
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Venezuela’s annual inflation rate will surge to 1.37 million percent by the end of the year as the government fails to cover a…
October 11, 2018Read More
In just a few years since inheriting a fortune from a company founded by their grandfather, brothers Malvinder and Shivinder Singh have managed…
September 25, 2018Read More
MELBOURNE – An Australian cartoonist has come under withering criticism for portraying tennis superstar Serena Williams using — what Harry Potter author JK…
September 19, 2018Read More
Coca-Cola said on Monday it is studying the use of a key ingredient in marijuana in “wellness beverages,” as a growing number of…
September 19, 2018Read More
A government photographer cropped photos of the pompous event in order to make the crowd look bigger after Trump called the National Park…
September 14, 2018Read More
At least 166 skulls have been found in a mass grave in Mexico where drug cartels are known to dump their victims’ bodies.…
September 9, 2018Read More
On August 28, British Prime Minister Theresa May arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, for a one-day working visit. This visit was part…
September 6, 2018Read More
If it weren’t for China, Africa’s largest trading partner would be India. But how different is its mode of engagement? With China’s top-level…
September 1, 2018Read More
CHINA has defended its investment policies in Africa, saying trade between the two was mutually beneficial and not meant to exploit the continent.…
August 31, 2018Read More
Top military commanders in Myanmar should be investigated and prosecuted for the “gravest” crimes against civilians under international law, including genocide, United Nations-appointed…
August 27, 2018Read More
With villages in flames in northern Myanmar, Tahara grabbed her four-month old baby and set out under the monsoon downpour in a desperate…
August 27, 2018Read More
Politics
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The Zimbabwean government is fighting against the economy’s self-dollarisation tooth and nail, in favour of the surrogate currency, the bond, threatening companies along the way. When Delta Beverages…
January 10, 2019Read More
Terrence Mkhwananzi feels trapped and unsafe in what is now regarded as the new Zimbabwe. Bailed out from remand prison, the 32-year-old activist makes weekly visits to the…
December 21, 2018Read More
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has effectively ended Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga’s ambitions for the top post after Zanu PF structures took the unusual step of endorsing him as the ruling…
December 9, 2018Read More
Former Zimbabwe government minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has said endorsing presidential candidates four years before elections causes coups. Speaking on Twitter, Moyo said during former President Robert Mugabe’s…
December 9, 2018Read More
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is now all but unlikely to finish off his presidential term to 2023, amid heart-stopping disclosures this week, that a hardline military confederacy said to…
December 9, 2018Read More
Zimbabwean businessman Joe Mutizwa yesterday appeared before the US senate sub-committee on Africa and Global Health Policy purporting to represent private business (audio notes above). He came prepared,…
December 9, 2018Read More
Armed police raided PHD church leader Prophet Walter Magaya’s office in search of “Aguma” the hiv/aids cure drug. The police ransacked the office of the Prophet in his…
October 31, 2018Read More
Reserve bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr John Mangudya has been fired, with a senior World Bank official being tipped for the post, reports suggest. According to Alternate Executive…
October 31, 2018Read More
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