Legitimacy of Saharawi Issue Buried Morocco’s Autonomy Proposal
Algerian lawyer and member of the Central Committee of the Liberation Front (FLN) Mr. Sadek Bouguetaya has indicated that the legitimacy of the Saharawi cause “has buried the Moroccan autonomy proposal, which is contrary to the UN resolutions on the decolonization of Western Sahara.” Speaking at the Summer University of Saharawi Cadres, underway in the […]
‘Man of God’ Rapes Woman Until She Faints
A woman who was allegedly raped by Johane Marange Simon branch leader Clement Momberume after being drugged, has said that she passed out during the sexual assault. Taking to the witness stand before senior regional magistrate Mark Dzira on Thursday, the woman who is a second wife of Momberume’s nephew, said she passed out during […]
Zambia Ritual Killings Cause of Concern
Barely two weeks after the shocking murder of an albino woman in Lundazi, another teenage girl of Kapiri Mposhi has been brutally murdered in yet another unnerving sequel of suspected random ritual killings. The body of the girl was found naked with her tongue and both breasts ripped off. Enough is enough. We would love […]
Revealed – Sex Secrets of South Africa’s Gay Students
Gay flag for a ‘queer’ South Africa The sex genie is out of the bottle when it comes to male students who engage in sex with men (MSM) in South Africa. The study, the first of its kind in South Africa, was conducted by the Higher Education and Training HIV/AIDS Programme (HEAIDS) and the Networking […]
African man displayed in a zoo
What happened to Oto Benga? The Congolese man who was put on display in a New York zoo alongside an orangutan as the “missing link” between man and ape. Find out more from Pamela Newkirk, author of Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga. Read full story here. Please follow and like us:
Zanu-PF Hawks Eye US$500 Milion NRZ Loan
LOAN facility to the tune of US$500 million being negotiated between the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and the troubled National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has been mired in controversy amid indications that State bureaucrats are rubbing their hands in glee as they hope to corruptly benefit from the deal. To get its act […]
Genital Mutilation – Will Nigeria Enforce the Law?
With the recent passage of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Bill into law by the National Assembly, which also aims at criminalising barbaric act of female genital mutilation, there may be light at the end of the tunnel for many who continue to live in fear across the country. With the wide spread commendation received […]
Swazi PM Barnabas Dlamini and the Con-Man King
Barnabas Dlamini, the Swaziland Prime Minister, has been derided across social media after it was revealed he had been passing himself off as a ‘doctor’ for more than five years when he had no such qualification. Dlamini had been given an ‘honorary’ doctorate from the University of Swaziland, an institution that does not run doctorate […]
Zimbabwe Railways NRZ Open To Private Train Operators
ZIMBABWEANS with the financial muscle to buy their own trains are free to use the country’s railway infrastructure to pursue the business, Transport Minister Obert Mpofu told Parliament this past week. “I think that the policy is that, if one wants to enter into that kind of economic activity, he or she is free to […]
Zambia police quiz journalists on national security leaks
Lusaka – Zambian police said they had questioned two journalists at a newspaper that published a story illegally drawn from classified documents about a graft investigation of a presidential aide, who was subsequently cleared. The Post Newspaper, which employs the journalists, said the affair demonstrated the government could not tolerate a free press. Police spokesperson […]
